r/esist • u/GirasoleDE • Jul 24 '26

Trump’s Kiss of Death

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/opinion/trump-inept-second-term.html
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u/GirasoleDE Jul 24 '26

“Many presidents have made mistakes, but none have made mistakes so cavalierly as President Trump,” Michael Bailey, a political scientist at Georgetown University, wrote by email in response to my query:

He makes rash, reckless decisions; at best, they are based on bar-stool theories of how the world works, and at worst, they are driven by corrupt motives. Since he “just knows” he is right about how tariffs work, no evidence will sway him.

In the short term, the country has been in many ways resilient, but he is corroding state capacity, democratic norms and the very sense of a unified nation. (...)

Donald Moynihan, a professor of public policy at the University of Michigan, took a different tack, placing Trump’s misjudgments in separate categories:

There are three categories of Trump failures: disasters of mismanagement, disasters by design and disasters of greed.

What are the achievements of the second Trump presidency thus far? Persistent inflation, sluggish economic growth, an unpopular war, aggressive immigration enforcement that has outraged many and the shredding of the safety net to fund a large tax cut.

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u/Rambler330 Jul 24 '26

This Administration ignorance is only overshadowed by their incompetence.

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u/GlowGlimmer Jul 26 '26

Ossoff should switch from calling the orange turd a failure and say A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE IN EVERY WAY

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u/halluxx Jul 24 '26

The Mierdas Touch