Republicans warn Trump of 2018 bloodbath

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ALEX ISENSTADT at Politico

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/21/2018-midterms-republicans-trump-warning-312404

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A few weeks before Alabama's special Senate election, President Donald Trump’s handpicked Republican National Committee leader, Ronna Romney McDaniel, delivered a two-page memo to White House chief of staff John Kelly outlining the party’s collapse with female voters.

The warning, several people close to the chairwoman said, reflected deepening anxiety that a full-throated Trump endorsement of accused child molester Roy Moore in the special election — which the president was edging closer to at the time — would further damage the party’s standing with women. McDaniel’s memo, which detailed the president's poor approval numbers among women nationally and in several states, would go unheeded, as Trump eventually went all-in for the ultimately unsuccessful Republican candidate.

The backstage talks provide a window into how those closest to Trump are bracing for a possible bloodbath in the 2018 midterms, which could obliterate the Republican congressional majorities and paralyze the president’s legislative agenda. The potential for a Democratic wave has grown after Republican losses this fall in Virginia, New Jersey and Alabama, and as the president’s approval ratings have plummeted to the 30s.

In recent weeks, some of the president’s advisers have taken it upon themselves to warn him directly about the fast-deteriorating political environment. White House officials have convened to discuss ways to improve his standing with suburban voters. And on Wednesday, the president met with Kelly, political director Bill Stepien, communications director Hope Hicks, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and Brad Parscale, Trump’s digital director in the 2016 campaign, to discuss the political landscape. Lewandowski forcefully raised concerns about the party’s efforts, according to one attendee and another person briefed on the meeting.


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[lindysalsagal]

1. Seriously doubt he cares. A dem senate excuses him from guilt.

They'Re the perfect cover for his failures.

[applegrove]

3. They are organized. I hope Democrats are not coasting on the GOP

losing the Senate seat in Alabama. I hope Democrats unleash hell.

[Siwsan]

2. Does anyone really think trump* will listen to them, or cares what they say?

I think he has an entire scenario running in his head, that has zero to do with reality. He is more of a 'Let it be written, let it be done!' kind of guy.

[applegrove]

5. I think you underestimate him. He is instinctive. He will have something

up his sleeve as he has the time to internalize Washington DC. Which it looks like he might have. We need to be so aggressive. And bloody. Because they are.

[Siwsan]

7. I'm in the camp that believes he is cognitively compromised, and therefore a useful puppet

I could easily be very wrong but I fear his handlers and those exploiting his ignorance and greed far more than I fear him.

I'll just try to keep an open mind, where my fear is concerned.

[applegrove]

8. He gets exploited to institute the GOP agenda. But he exploited the racists

who were lurking around the US and he freed them to run free. And they voted for him in thanks.

[Siwsan]

9. I'm not sure who is exploiting who, where the racists are concerned

Cold be a 'quid pro quo' situation but trump* gravitates to anyone who flatters him.

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10. Yes he does.

[MontanaMama]

4. He doesn't give a rat's ass.

Dotard doesn't even have a clue how a bill becomes a law. Doubt he could even grasp a Schoolhouse Rock lesson in civics.

[applegrove]

6. But how a bill becomes a law is a human created fiction. He is a dyslexic

And lives in a 3D world. He got the reality of racists in the last election. He'll find something else in the Democracy to dismantle. We better be ready.

[AlexSFCA]

11. there is nothing stupid about it

trump knows exactly what he is doing, it’s hard to imagine a more effective dismantler of administrative state. He doen’t care about anything but laser sharp focused on dismantling USA as a democracy and making sure it becomes a failed state, autoritarian oligarchy. He needs to induce second great depression to achieve that. The economic collapse will affect economies of all developed nations giving the rich a unique opportunity to consolidate power. The new world order envisions US, Russia and China as dominant autoritarian power and EU is being diminished along with NATO and UN. He and Putin are woking closely to redraw the world.

[applegrove]

12. And the EU or NATO are human created fictions that people

have to believe in for them to work. And Trump pulls them down and thinks he is a genius.