The president is increasingly hates, but it is an opposition party that does not oppose.
Donald Trump won the presidency an unusually narrow stock of victoryThere is not enough victory in most popular votes and only 1.5 percent more than Kamal’s competitor. But it manages as if using a massive mandate from a historical landslide. During the first five weeks of his presidency, Trump unleashed the accent of executive orders, which, if they were left without obstacles, are a counter -revolution of the US government, which would significantly cancel the new transaction Franklin Roosevelt and Lindon Johnson’s great society. The key to Trump’s efforts was the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is controlled by Elon Musk, the richest man in the world. Roman states – and almost certainly unconstitutional – a license to reduce the financing and programs that have already voted by Congress and signed by the law by previous presidents.
In addition to Dogel, Trump quickly moved foreign policy, clearly using US leverage (in particular NATO and Ukraine) as the instrument of extortionMost clearly, demanding that Ukraine pass on half its mineral wealth in the US. He also highlighted an unusual cohort of extremists and failures for a high position, including Pete Heagset as Secretary of Defense, Robert F. Kennedy -Jelling as a secretary of health care and household services, Tuls Gabard as a director The qualities of the head of the head of the FBI.
Theoretically, this type of shocking management should produce a backlash in Congress, especially since the Republicans hold the authorities as narrow as Trump’s electoral victory. Currently, Republicans use only three places in front of the Democrats in the House of Representatives (218 places to 215), as well as a thin majority in the Senate (53 out of 100 places). However, the Democrats have not yet been able to clear enough Republicans to stop the president’s agenda. Today, almost all Trump’s nominees have sailed to confirmation (the main exception of Gaetz’s Matt failed to become the Prosecutor General). Also, the Republicans of Congress, despite the preliminary support of Ukraine, were not ready to oppose Trump’s foreign policy.
GOP subordinated Trump, motivated by the combination of political expediency, as well as true fear, is not a new story. Fair of vanity reports“According to one of the sources that the direct knowledge of the events, North Carolina’s Senator Tom Tilis told the people that the FBI had warned him of” reliable death threats “when he was considering Voting against Pitt Hugset’s nomination for the Minister of Defense. “The magazine also quotes a former Trump official, who said:” They are afraid of relentless threats of death and things similar to the Gestapo. “
However, even if Congress remains submissive, the public as a whole quickly passes to Trump and his right man Elon Musk.
On Thursday, Washington Post report:
President Donald Trump has opened his second term flurry designed to radically disrupt and reduce the federal bureaucracy, but the reviews of Americans are indifferent to many of his specific initiatives, and 57 percent say, according to a Washington Post/ Survey.
Overall, 43 percent of Americans say they support what the president did in his first month, and 48 percent said they were against. Those who strongly oppose those who strongly support 37 percent to 27 percent.
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Among other main results of the poll: 57 percent of the public believe that Trump exceeds his powers; Elon Musk is widely unpopular (only 34 percent approval and 49 percent unfit); Most Americans do not approve of the turn of the economy (53 percent of the refusal against 45 percent); And about six out of 10 Americans do not approve of the tariffs for Canada and Mexico.
In addition, many DOGE activities are unpopular. As depending on Pillar:
About 6 out of 10 opposes the closure of the US Agency for International Development, which provides humanitarian aid in low income countries …
At a time when it brings reports of layoffs to one agency every day, almost 6 of the 10 Americans say they oppose the deposition of a large number of federal government workers or facilitate the dismissal of long -standing civil servants. In addition, over 2 of 3 resist blocking federal medical institutions from communication With the public without the approval of the appointed Trump.
Considering these figures, the Democrats should be in good form to restore Congress in the Middle 2026. Indeed, the same poll show 54 percent of the public say they will vote for the Congress Democrats to hold Trump.
However, the Democrats have no reason to gather about this, as other surveys show that the party is historically unpopular, with a deep dissatisfied current leadership. A recent Quinnipiac poll show The fact that the Democrats in Congress only have 21 percent of approval against 68 percent refusal (with a pure negative of 47 percent). This compares to the Republicans Congress (40 percent of the approval, 52 percent of the refusal, the pure negative 12) and Trump himself (45 percent of the approval, 49 percent of the refusal, the pure negative 4 percent). This poll corresponds to other proof of the Democratic Party unpopularity, including a deep downturn in funding both from large and small donors.
As a prem -carrier Zeteo News notesThe current unpopularity of the Congress Democrats is in sharp contrast to the comparable moment in the first term of Trump – February 2017 – if they had 59 percent approval and 31 percent of the refusal (pure plus 28 percent).
It may seem paradoxical that even when Trump is immersed in popularity, weighing a widely unfriendly agenda, the Democrats no longer loved the public. But two facts are related: pushing for a tough agenda allows Trump to support his support among Republicans, even if the Democrats and Independents turn to it. Unlike this, the Democrats in Congress, which are under the brutal leadership of Senator Shumer and representative hockey Jeffrist, despise their own party (for not fighting Trump), as well as Republicans (only Democrats).
The difference between 2017 and 2024. – One of the Democrats in Congress. In 2017, the Democrats in Congress used a popular anger on Trump (fueled by resistance resistance) and noted the exact position of the opposition. In 2024 the Democrats of Congress were much more “timid” as my Nation Recently colleague David Zirin noted. Zirin Offered a number of explanations for the pusilanimity of the democratic lead-including the reniance on wealthy tech donors, the fact that Centrist Democrats Share Musk’s Cost-Cutting Agenda Clintonian and Obamaite Thinking Leaving The Party Helpless to Respond to Current Realities. Can add that Sumer, in particularThe first line of defense“) To stop the Trump Government Government – a plan that, even if it had theoretical plausibility (and if you think the courts are going to save us, I can try to sell you some of Trump’s cryptocoin). , Trump’s victory is a matter of politics, not courts.
The current democratic leadership simply does not meet the task of starting a deeply felt anger on Trump and using it for productive political purposes that scare out the Republican Party and mobilization for the upcoming elections. The difference between a meaningless guidance and an increasingly angry base suggests that the Democrats should be hidden for shock or hostile absorption-in comparison with how the tea party took the first time Barack Obama.
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In addition to the pursuit of the modern democratic leadership, the party has some vivid voices (or allied with it) who receive a wide and grateful audience for their readiness to oppose Trump: not only unwavering left, such as for example Senator Bernie Sanders and a representative Alexandria Okosio-Cartes but also more basic figures such as Governor Illinois Jb Pritzker and Senator Connecticut Chris Murphy.
Democrats now have a clear choice: they can increase the anger against Trump, exalting these strong voices-and they can continue to allow Sumer/Jeffries to do a strategy, does not drag their party to the future defeat.
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