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Conservative pundit S.E. Cupp questions the wisdom of setting President Donald Trump up with unfettered power for the second half of his term, especially considering the mess that his first two years have delivered. “In October 1980, then-candidate Ronald Reagan asked voters a very important question: ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ It was during the only televised debate he had against incumbent President Jimmy Carter, whose presidency had been marred by one crisis after another, from record-high inflation and rising unemployment, to soaring gas prices and the Iran hostage crisis,” Cupp said in a Chicago Sun Times column . Reagan, of course, already knew the answer to his question for most Americans, but putting it to words helped propel him to a landslide victory, said Cupp. It also became a catch-all phrase for a political challenger to question an incumbent. Trump himself has used Reagan’s argument against Biden and others, so Trump knows the cautionary tale of ...
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Tea partier tears Trump apart on government spending

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When former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) announced his candidacy in October 2009, he said his opening campaign speech dealt with the nation’s debilitating debt: ”My name is Joe Walsh, I’m running for Congress, and I’m [furious] at both political parties for bankrupting future generations of Americans.” This Friday, Walsh was apparently still mad, boiling at the horrific expenditures of President Donald Trump and his enablers in the Republican-dominated House and Senate. “And you know what’s absolutely crazy about this? When I announced my candidacy in October of 2009, the national debt was $11.9 trillion,” said Walsh. “When I was sworn into Congress in January of 2011, the debt was $14.1 trillion. As I write this, the debt now stands at $39.86 trillion, and by the time you read this, the debt will be over $39.9 trillion.” “The Republican Party we have is an authoritarian embracing cult. So they will do whatever he wants them to do, as opposed to being the Congress that our founders ...
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Maybe God is punishing America — and the worst is yet to come

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Lately, I have been thinking about Pat Robertson . Yes, the very same. The late televangelist used to accuse America of falling away from the straight and narrow when there was a natural disaster. Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods – these were God's punishment, he said. For what? Well, whatever Robertson didn't like, but gay men preoccupied his attention. I guess God wouldn't punish America if they were back in the closet. Or something like that. I have been thinking about Robertson's style of rhetoric in light of the recent discourse over "woke 1." There appears to be an established elite consensus that Donald Trump and the politics he represents were a natural and legitimate reaction to it. Noah Berlatsky called this the "white supremacy consensus." Victor Ray put that in historical context: "The end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow depended upon the exact type of elite consensus that non-white folks had gone too far in calling for eq...
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Angry Trump voters are giving the GOP a headache in deep red Iowa: CNN

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CNN reporter John King says angry Republicans and emerging blue suburbs in Iowa may be gearing up to give Republicans a hard midterm in one of the reddest states in the nation. Just 82 days away from the midterms Democrats appear hopeful that Iowa's third congressional district will add to the belt notches giving them back the House. President Donald Trump won Iowa by 13 points in 2024 and carried every single county but one, but now new occupants of the Hawkeye State, coupled with growing Republican anger, appears to be giving Dems a rare opportunity. Loyal Republican and three-time Trump voter Kris Mudd said his Republican friends are having a difficult time siding with the Republican Party as the pain of the Trump economy hangs over the state. “Housing is expensive. The interest rates are expensive and gas is expensive. People are upset. They're frustrated with the way things have gone on. You know, I can't tell you that I'm 100% excited about everything that'...
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'Big failure': Conservative icon says Donald Trump’s luck has run out

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President Donald Trump is officially becoming a “big failure,” according to a conservative intellectual who wrote speeches for one of the Republican Party’s most beloved leaders, President Ronald Reagan. “His position in the political cosmos is changing,” Peggy Noonan wrote for The Wall Street Journal on Thursday . “In some new way good fortune is not on Mr. Trump’s side. There is a new precarity there.” She added, “All this is connected, obviously, to the dangerous mess of Iran, widespread economic anxiety and a rise in the energy and electoral success of the left, which hates him and, in its political bloodlust, apes him.” Describing Trump’s approval ratings, which are consistently in the 30-percentage range, she pointed out that he is especially suffering because of his mishandling of the Iran war and the ongoing failing economy. “Not so long ago, all the energy was with MAGA, the insurgents who went up against the establishment in the big rebellion, the big rebuke,” Noonan said. “...
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The reckoning: Why disillusioned conservatives are cutting GOP ties

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Independent voters are a growing bloc in the American political body, made up in large part of people who have been fleeing both parties in droves. With President Donald Trump being a Republican, that party in particular has been worried about its flagging support in the polls with this group. Now a new survey explains why so many people are becoming independents — namely, that they are disgusted with their original party but do not warm up to the alternative. “In the United States, partisanship has a greater impact on political behavior than any other social identity,” wrote Alex Tolkin , a researcher at the Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology and The Polarization Lab from Duke University, in the abstract for his study for the journal Public Opinion Quarterly. “However, the proportion of Americans who actively identify with a party, as opposed to Independents who ‘lean’ toward one, is at its lowest point in decades.” He added, “Existing research offers two explanations for why: ...
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'They feel it': Strategist says Republicans know their darkest fear has come to pass

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Democratic James Carville said the nation is clearly losing patience with President Donald Trump, and even Republican voters are finding themselves less and less beholden to the man — even if they are loathe to admit it. He said on his Wednesday “ Politics War Room ” podcast that many Republican and MAGA voters appear to be bidding a fond farewell to Trump as they cast their eye to a new cult leader. Nowhere was this clearer, said Carville, than in the South Carolina primaries this week, as State Sen. Darline Graham failed to clinch the primary after Trump offered her a full-throated endorsement. Now she faces a second grueling run-off against Republican Rep. Ralph Norman, a conservative hard-liner who had previously run for governor. Republican voters expressed doubt about Graham in earlier surveys, with one Trump voter saying “she has a master's and she's helped people that are blind and she's a lovely woman advocate. But I don't feel like she has the experience.” ...
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