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President Trump and Republicans in Washington have shaken the confidence of their supporters after a punishing and self-inflicted series of setbacks that have angered activists, left allies slack-jawed and reopened old fissures on the right.
A seemingly endless sequence of disappointments and blunders has rattled Mr. Trumps volatile governing coalition, like Mr. Trumps attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions; a vulgar tirade by his new communications chief, Anthony Scaramucci; and the collapse of conservative-backed health care legislation.
Mr. Trump remains overwhelmingly popular with Republicans, but among party loyalists and pro-Trump activists around the country, there are new doubts about the tactics he has employed, the team he has assembled and the fate of the populist, drain the swamp agenda he promised to deliver in partnership with a Republican-controlled Congress.
There is a significant amount of justified frustration, particularly with the Senate, said Robin Hayes, the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party, alluding to the health care defeat. I dont want to use any Scaramucci language this morning, but its their inability to function as a team, to work together and come up with a responsible win.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/30/us/politics/republicans-white-house-disarray-trump.html
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)...that should be the real headline
unblock
(52,220 posts)Derp dee derp derp derp.
Leith
(7,809 posts)All they need to do is copy and paste, then show how our side can clean up their mess.
The biggest problem is living (literally! Shout out to BPMan here) with their mess.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)whatever it was voted to kill thousands of us and destroy the lives of millions more
And they will do that again and again.
They never have to worry about their base, their base will believe them when they blame us for losing healthcare.
Me.
(35,454 posts)He is the chaos and disarray
enough
(13,259 posts)phylny
(8,380 posts)Hieronymus
(6,039 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)Repukes want to prop him up. Senator McTurtle said, "Please, oh please Dark Lord, we beseech the, change your ways so that we might actually kill millions of people!"
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Their nutty base will stick with them, at least a small part.
Big Blue Marble
(5,076 posts)in the midst of disarray!
6000eliot
(5,643 posts)The mess in the White House happened BECAUSE of him, not despite him.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,972 posts)TEB
(12,842 posts)Ass clowns
WhiteTara
(29,710 posts)the entire country.