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Impeach Bill Pulte
If we saw a scheme like this playing out in any other context, we'd use every tool available to try and stop it.
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Donald Trump’s presidency is failing along every visible dimension.
We can’t see everything going on behind the scenes, and behind the scenes he is orchestrating plans to cheat in and steal the midterm elections. Perhaps those plans are going well—he certainly has allies on the bench who will help him in a pinch. But the things he’s attempting in public are not working as he imagined, and it’s made him catastrophically unpopular. It’s eroded his control over the Republican Senate (and to a lesser extent the House of Representatives) as erstwhile allies turn on him. It’s made even some of his most vile apologists in right-wing media question their allegiances.
In just the past week or so:
Trump claimed for the—sixth? eighth? tenth?—time that a deal to end his failed war in Iran and reopen the Strait of Hormuz was afoot, only for the Iranian government to reject his proposal, cut off communication with U.S. negotiators, and resume bombarding allied Gulf states.
He had to shelve (and most likely abandon) his $1.8 billion insurrection slush fund; in part because Republicans in Congress have signaled they won’t be able to withstand pressure to kill the fund legislatively, and in part because a federal judge cited the “settlement” as evidence that Trump and his administration perpetrated a fraud on her court.
Trump’s plan to hijack America’s 250th birthday collapsed, when musical artists dropped out, suggesting the Trump operation misled them into thinking they’d be participating in a nonpartisan federal commemoration of the founding, rather than a MAGA hate festival.
He also lost his attempt to commandeer the Kennedy Center and saw his persecution of the Broadview Six ICE protesters collapse due to prosecutorial misconduct.
On the one hand: HAHAHA schadenfreude popcorn ya hate to see it.
On the other hand: There’s still five months until the midterms, and 29 months until the presidential election, and when Trump is or feels rejected by anything he tries harder and harder to force himself on that thing. Failing that he tries to destroy it.
