Summary
Conservative economist Oren Cass warns that Donald Trump could jeopardize his presidency by focusing on donor and activist agendas rather than the priorities of swing voters who secured his victory.
Writing in The New York Times, Cass argues that new presidents often mistake donor interests, such as tax cuts and deregulation, for the will of the electorate, leading to ineffective governance and loss of public trust.
Cass urges Trump to prioritize issues that resonate with the broader American public to avoid a fate that has derailed past presidencies.
Economists also said that Trump would tank the economy. Americans sleep.
Maybe if dear leader has his interests threatened people will listen.
Economists also said that Trump would tank the economy. Americans sleep.
Not even just “sleeping”, Wallstreet is celebrating his win!
Why would he care? He can’t get elected again. He’s probably not even going to be alive many more years (or at least not mentally aware of anything)
I’m sure his Supreme Court would be happy to rule the constitution unconstitutional.
As much power as they have, they can’t do that fortunately. So, they’ll need to get creative. Something along the lines of “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice” really means twice consecutively, so a third term is good to go. As flippant as I sound about it, it is actually a possibility if Trump survives that long and wants to run again.
I mean, what actually stops them? Like, if they just came out and said verbatim “yeah, we dont care about the constitution anymore, republican presidents can do whatever they want” word for word as their ruling, and the president and congress are occupied by republicans with no desire to impeach them for it or refuse to enforce the ruling, what do you suppose happens?
He can’t get elected again
He’s going to start talking about a third term within a month of taking office. At first they’re going to write it off as “jokes” and then he’s going to push it to the supreme court.
Am I the only person in the world that heard him say many times that if you vote for him you’ll never have to vote again? I feel like I’m going fucking crazy here.
Yes. He said it and he meant it.
At least ~70 million people are actually mentally ill. Don’t bother trying to rationalize their actions because that will make you insane.
It scares me the way his base ate it up. What is wrong with people that they don’t appreciate living in a modern democracy. Its just crazy to think of living before world war one compared to were we are at now.
Oh he did. My only hope at this point is that he is just so self-centered he meant he didn’t care about their voting anymore because he personally could never run again.
At least from a personal perspective, I wouldn’t be surprised if he would be ok with closing his legacy having “won the game” by serving as president as long as he was allowed to serve with an overwhelming electoral victory.
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There’s no “could” about it.
In the same way that “every accusation is a confession” with conservatives, I just assume that all of Trump potential “downfalls” are just slight inconveniences at most.
If the last few years have taught me anything, it’s that what you do is not important as much as the narrative that you are able to spin.
As long as TV news networks, podcasters, news outlets, and Musk’s Twitter exist, people who are too ignorant to understand they are being lied to, or too lazy to parse credible information, will stay in the dark and vote red in the next election as well.
Democracy doesn’t work when the electorate is too illiterate to cast their vote justly. They’ll just vote for the next clown who promises them the moon.
I don’t have a solution.
Exactly.
I’ve had Republican friends send me articles, I read them, start the debate, only to realize they literally only read the headline.
I’ve found myself reading terribly written articles just so that I’m sure I don’t misunderstand anything being portrayed in the article. Sometimes spending an extra 20-30 additional minutes for fact checking.
Trying to have a subsequent conversation with them is like pissing in the wind.
Well, if goods become even more expensive, and wages fail to improve or get worse, then people tend to notice that more than the spin.
Sure you have very loud passionate politically active people who are game for “their team” to win no matter what and will listen to anything to rationalize their position and reject anything that disagrees, but a lot of folks are just looking at their personal circumstance and deciding if they think it’s bad or not and voting either to continue or change, without a whole lot of consideration of what either side says will work or why things are the way they are, they just know “keep it going” or “change it out”.
We need never be afraid of the vote of informed Americans. It is only the ignorant voter we have to fear, ignorant politically, no matter how fine his house or how expensive his schooling. Such people have never experienced democracy; they have merely enjoyed its benefits. It is hard to explain what democracy is; it is necessary to participate in it to understand it.
—Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
Unfortunately, there seems to be an awful lot of ignorance out there today.
