Donald Trump is undeniably and absolutely bleeding support from his own base at every turn as a result of his administration’s catastrophic, ongoing handling of the infamous Epstein Scandal that looms heavy and dark over his second presidential term — and a blistering new report in The New Republic theorizes that this one may very well be too much for even Donald’s staunchest, most devout, most loyal of supporters to swallow with a straight face.
In Senior Editor Alex Shephard’s new piece, viciously titled “Everybody Hates Trump Now,” he explains that Donald Trump has never attracted voters by convincing them that he has stunning, groundbreaking ideas that they can get behind. Instead, Trump has had a knack for identifying where voters already stand on specific issues, and then taking it upon himself to go out and publicly say “what other political leaders are too afraid to say.”
“His rapid rise within the Republican Party came from simply recognizing that the party’s voters were significantly further to the right on immigration than most of the party’s presidential candidates,” Shephard writes. “Trump parroted back to voters what they were already saying about undocumented immigrants, and he rapidly rose in the polls.”
However, we’re now just 6 months into his four-year second term, and it certainly seems that Donald’s own base is beginning to go sour… Quickly.
The policies that he has implemented thus far have left a large portion of his voter base worse off than they were before, and his bungled, ongoing handling of the Epstein sex-trafficking scandal is on the precipice of stripping him of even his final, most loyal supporters.
“His failure to follow through on his (admittedly half-hearted) promise to release [the Epstein] files has rattled his core supporters, even as he is ramping up an unprecedented deportation regime,” Shepard explains. “There are signs that all of this is going to get worse too.”
“Trump has no way out of the Epstein problem; he can either continue to stonewall, which makes him look guilty, or he can release everything, which may make him look even guiltier.”
Shepard concludes, “For now, all that really matters is that Trump’s support is tanking—and he looks powerless to halt the slide, let alone reverse it.”
You can read the blistering full piece here.
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