USA Today: It's official: Trump is a historical failure and we're finally admitting it.

[Doodley]

One of the biggest lies Republican leaders are trying to sell Americans is that voters love President Donald Trump. Republicans keep talking about how great a job Trump is doing and how the general American public can't get enough of it.

Lies. All lies.

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The thing is, Trump made his plans clear on the reelection campaign trail. For months, he talked up his vision of mass deportations and tariffs. He proposed massive shake-ups in government, things like shuttering the Department of Education. It’s not surprising that these things would lead America into turmoil. Trump wasn't joking about all of the destructive policies he wanted to implement.

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To be clear, the only person lying is Trump. He is the one trying to convince us that everything is great while people across the country suffer. He wants us to believe that a tanking economy and a tumultuous government are the fault of immigrants and transgender people, and it isn’t working. Even after his declining approval rating, Trump is trying to convince his supporters that everything is fine.

"This is the best, they say, 100-day start of any president in history, and everyone is saying it," he said at an April 29 rally in Warren, Michigan. "We've just gotten started. You haven't even seen anything yet."

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I understand the desire to let Trump go down in flames, but something must be done to fix the Democrats' favorability ratings. If they are unable to create a coherent top-down message by 2026, I worry about what the country will become. They don’t need to say “I told you so.” They need to be talking to voters about the plans they have to combat the impending catastrophe.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/05/01/trump-approval-rating-polls-down-economy/83349237007/

[dalton99a]

1. Kick

[sop]

2. The question now: do Republicans allow a "historical failure" to continue failing for the next 3 years and 9 months?

They must realize Trump isn't going to change, he's only going to get worse.

[erronis]

7. He can't fail in their eyes - he is blessed. They'd rather poke out their own eyes than acknowledge what they see.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. MAGA still believes him. The catastrophe is not impending. It's happening. /nt

[Dan]

4. Well, if the Democrats

Ever get into power again, I hope that one thing we do is get rid of Revenue Sharing. Because we are giving money to the very States that are doing everything they can to destroy the Blue States. I can see losing, but I definitely don’t understand paying them to do it.

Without Revenue Sharing they would be forced to support their craziness on their own and we could then see how that works.

[appmanga]

5. One of the things I was taught growing up...

...and has stayed a fundamental pillar of my life is no one is above criticism, and no one is above challenge. What we see with Trump among his sycophants and supports the opposite of that mindset. We also find that in some quarters when it comes to Democrats. If you can see the flaw of that when it comes to Trump, it can't be acceptable among the people who seek to oppose him.

There's no need to hyperbolize the many illegal, psychologically sick actions of Trump and his administration. It's very important thing is to be honest and blunt, it's very important to call things what they are. This is a would-be authoritarian regime doing everything they can to impose their will on the American people regardless of the legality of it. If you are a leader, you need to stress this every day. If you're a leader, you should be able to ask the American people whenever you speak to them whether they believe threats against judges, universities, law firms, businesses, and political opposition is normal and acceptable. Well they invariably reply "No", you can tell them this is part of what you're fighting against. And you have to accept in these far from normal things you cannot simply fight in the traditional ways.

The fight against Trump's newest tax scam has to be met with Democrats shutting down the Senate. No tactical stone should be left unturned, including refusing unanimous consent, interminable quorum calls, and individually holding the floor when it's meaningful, and not just symbolic. I can accept bipartisan votes on ambassadors, but no one should accept not using every arrow in the quiver to disrupt the progress of legislation that would gut Medicaid and other parts of the social safety net.

The people are doing their best to apply pressure to Republicans, loudly and in numbers. We should be able to see the same from those in office.

[Ray Bruns]

6. Lies! Alll lies!

[DENVERPOPS]

8. Don't forget when

at his rallies he told his crowd to vote for him" just this one last time, and they would never need to vote again".

And when he openly acknowledged his "un-educated voting group" and said he often said: How he "LOVED the un-educated" group of voters who all voted for him..........

Most recently, he is starting to throw all of the 74+ Million under the bus, so as he warned about voting one last time, Trump and the RepubliCONS must be convinced that the voting will be so corrupt by them in the future elections, that they will win every time. Much like Putin's elections in Russia, and elections in other Dictator/Tyrant nations......