Power, Corruption & Lies |
Yesterday, the Daily Wire’s Mary Margaret Olohan reported a quote from a (one assumes Vance-associated) “National GOP operative” licking his wounds after the Scanners-like spontaneous cranial explosion of the Republican Party, inflicted on Tuesday by an electorate unleashed by the psychic powers of the ballot box. “People will try to overcomplicate this, but its really simple: This is 100% because of Iran. It’s all in the data and has been since a week after the war started. The economic anxiety is directly correlated with the war. We got our asses kicked because of it.”
Would that it were really that simple. We all know why operatives like these wish to fob responsibility for this wipeout off on the sole aspect of Trumpism they are willing to venture even partial opposition to. But Trump’s job approval ratings tell an unmistakable story: His approval numbers only begin to crater in April 2025, once “Liberation Day” was announced.
The story of the initial collapse of the Trump administration must — no matter how much some may approve of the policy — therefore be a story about a broad tariff regime instituted with imperial arbitrariness and........