Republicans are silent

Trump trashes American allies and the only Republican who speaks up is John McCain.  They, as well as Trump will be held accountable for the failures of this administration.  They spoke up a little against Trump’s tariffs and “spygate” but have been mostly silent on his lies and bigotry.  Disgraceful!

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Latest NBC/WSJ poll

links and tweets on the poll

Trump’s popularity has increased

Democrats have a 10% point edge in the generic congress question

The complete poll

 

 

 

A great idea for a law

 

The Trump campaign should have report the Russian offer for dirt on Clinton to the FBI.

Democrats and Republicans see the economy very differently

Democrats and Republicans have very different views on the economy.

The article states: “Since the 2016 election, the partisan economic expectations gap—that is, the difference between Republicans’ and Democrats’ assessment of the economy’s direction—has widened to an unprecedented level, going from roughly 20 points during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama to 56 points today. Democrats now expect an imminent recession, whereas Republicans anticipate a robust spell of growth to just keep going.”

Remaining Confederate monuments

 

What is Trump up to?

Trump’s latest unhinged tweet demands that the Department of Justice look into whether or not they infiltrated the Trump campaign for political purposes.  Notice his tweetstorm today did not deal with the substance of the New York Times story that his campaign met with other foreign countries in addition to Russia.

Trump’s request is wrong and unreasonable.  I hope that the DOJ doesn’t cave in.  I think he is doing this as an excuse to fire Sessions, Rosenstein, and/or Wray if they don’t do what he wants.  If he gets rid of Rosenstein, he can put someone in who will fire Mueller.

What happens if he does any or all of this?  The Democrats will get upset but they have no power.  The cowardly Republicans will do nothing; they have not stopped Trump before.  The Mueller investigation will continue even if Mueller is gone – this happened in Watergate after Cox was fired.

Trump is doing damage to the country that will take decades to repair.  We are all less safe because of his efforts to unmask the informant  – why would anyone give confidential information to US intelligence agencies if they know they can be exposed?  The bottom line is there would be no informant if the Trump campaign did not have many contacts with Russians, enemies of the US.

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