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Donald Trump stands accused of making an attempt to repeal the twentieth century.
That’s how the New York Instances places it, and there’s ample reporting to again that up.
However I might add this little bit of perspective.
When Joe Biden got here into workplace, he was broadly portrayed as making vital, progressive, reforms. He was depicted as undoing the harm of Trump’s first time period. He was one of many good guys.
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(Biden was additionally derided as too outdated for the job and mentally declining, and shielded from the press, and botching the border, however his coronary heart was seen as being in the suitable place.)
When Trump gained a second time period, he was instantly seen as a human wrecking ball.
President Donald Trump speaks throughout a lunch with African leaders within the State Eating Room of the White Home, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
He’s been completely aggressive, taking up elite regulation corporations, Ivy League universities and the media, profitable large settlements from two of the three broadcast networks, ABC and CBS. He’s sealed the border, backed stronger techniques by ICE brokers, and slapped even longtime allies with sky-high tariffs–all of which he had promised throughout the marketing campaign.
However most within the media have portrayed this as shifting backwards, undoing vital reforms and damaging the nation. They’ve slid again into the acquainted position of the Resistance.
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The framing is that Trump is destroying democracy, ruining the financial system, yadda yadda yadda. He is likely one of the dangerous guys. By no means thoughts that he gained the favored vote.
Trump is undoing what Biden did, as Biden did after Trump’s first time period, and that may be a disaster.
The president additionally efficiently bombed Iran’s nuclear websites, and regardless of the controversy over how a lot of a setback that was, most Democrats and media folks refused to credit score him, or did so grudgingly.
(On the similar time, Trump and his Justice Division additionally bungled the Jeffrey Epstein case, refusing–after an enormous buildup–to launch something, on grounds that there was no shopper checklist and that the convicted pedophile did commit suicide in jail.)
On Sunday’s Mediabuzz, Sarah Bedford, investigations editor of the right-leaning Washington Examiner, referred to as it “an enormous PR catastrophe for the Trump administration. There’s no manner for them to spin their manner out of this.”
I’ve been making an attempt to determine why that is putting such a deep chord amongst MAGA loyalists, quite than being a two-day story, and that is my take.
AG Bondi, Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump. (Getty Pictures)
The no-need-to-release-anything about this “creep,” as Trump calls him, is a proxy for a broader sentiment that the wealthy and highly effective at all times get away with issues. They defend one another. They’re by no means held accountable for actions that will sink the remainder of us.
I’ve been making an attempt to determine why that is putting such a deep chord amongst MAGA loyalists, quite than being a two-day story, and that is my take.
The no-need-to-release-anything about this “creep,” as Trump calls him, is a proxy for a broader sentiment that the wealthy and highly effective at all times get away with issues. They defend one another. They’re by no means held accountable for actions that will sink the remainder of us.
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From the New York Instances: “On issues large and small, Mr. Trump has hit the rewind button. On the broadest stage, he has endeavored to reverse the globalization and internationalism which have outlined U.S. management across the globe since World Battle II, underneath presidents of each events. However even at a extra prosaic stage, it has grow to be evident that Mr. Trump, 79, the oldest president ever inaugurated, merely prefers issues the best way he remembers them from his youth, and even earlier than that.”
Within the well-reported piece, Peter Baker says Trump desires has referred to as into query fluoride in water, flu vaccine and automotive security requirements.
President Donald Trump is pictured on the conclusion of the Membership World Cup closing soccer match between Chelsea and PSG at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Photograph/Jacquelyn Martin)
“He has made clear that he desires to return to an period when ‘Cats’ was the massive hit on Broadway, not ‘Hamilton;’ when army services have been named after Accomplice generals, not homosexual rights leaders; when coal was king and there have been no windmills; when straws have been plastic, not paper; when bathrooms flushed extra powerfully; when there weren’t so many immigrants; when cops weren’t discouraged from being tough on suspects; when variety was not a aim in hiring or school admissions or a lot of the rest–all to avoid wasting America from “radical left lunatics.”
It’s possible you’ll or might not agree with this evaluation, however there’s little query that Donald Trump desires to hit the time machine and return the nation to a time when he was rising up, and even many years earlier than that.
That, in any case, is why now we have elections.
Footnote: President Trump posted this, seemingly out of the blue:
“Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell will not be in one of the best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I’m giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Risk to Humanity, and will stay within the fantastic Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
I don’t assume he has the ability to do that to a natural-born American citizen. And I don’t assume he’ll. However even when he did, wouldn’t it must be tied to some sort of nationwide safety risk? Rosie, with whom he’s been feuding for years?
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She has hit again, most likely grateful for the publicity:
“The president of the usa has at all times hated the truth that i see him for who he’s – a prison con man sexual abusing liar out to hurt our nation to serve himself – this is the reason i moved to eire – he’s a harmful outdated soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy compassion and fundamental humanity.”
Zero proof that he has dementia, after all. However why go there?
