According to one political strategist, US President Donald J. Trump and his Republican cronies are in a “far darker” place than they’re willing to publicly admit to, with “no way” to escape, as the ongoing government shutdown, budget fight, and crumbling economy threaten to fracture their political base beyond repair.
Veteran Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg penned a fiery new Substack article, in which he argues that, given the current state of affairs, it appears that Republicans will be resoundingly unable to pass any semblance of a budget bill any time soon, and it’s spelling serious trouble for Trump and his party. Rosenberg writes that passing any sort of budget bill would force Republicans in Congress to not just acknowledge but publicly validate a slew of unpopular Trump policies, including mass and violent immigration raids, trade wars, and a resounding mismanagement of the US economy.
“As a political strategist, I think Trump and Republicans are in a far darker political place than the current discourse currently reflects,” Rosenberg wrote. “In this coming budget fight and into the elections next year they are going to be forced to defend the worst government in our history, one that is doing, clear, material, intentional harm to the country; trampling our rights and liberties and our Constitutional order; destroying our global reputation and making us all far less safe; a government that is wildly unpopular and led by a sundowning, imperious madman who was Jeffrey Epstein’s closest friend and party buddy.”
Even if Republicans did somehow manage to slip through by the skin of their teeth without marrying themselves to a budget, Rosenberg warns that it is highly likely they will “escape from what they’ve done.”
“They have no way to escape from what they’ve done, the harm they have caused,” the political strategist explains. “No ads can make all this go away. Will they start to walk away from it all: the health care cuts, the tariffs, the ICE expansion, and him, to attempt to mitigate the damage? Will little cracks become big cracks? Or will they stay the course out of fear and cowardice?”
“That’s what this budget fight is really all about it, and we are clearly in the early, early days.”
You can read Rosenberg’s full Substack essay here.
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