Trump Is A Loser, A Failure, A Coward And An Appeaser. America Is Not Winning Under Trump
Simon Rosenberg
Morning all. News accounts suggest that in the coming days our treacherous leader is going to declare Crimea part of Russia, not Ukraine, formally putting the US on the side of Russia - not Europe, not Ukraine - in Putin’s genocidal attempt to conquer Ukraine. It will signal among many other things a functional end to NATO and the Western alliance that has kept the US safe, free and prosperous for generations. Putin successfully engineered the UK’s departure from Europe. And now it appears he is getting America to abandon it too.
As I wrote to you yesterday Trump is leading America to a place that guarantees that we will be poorer, less healthy, less safe and less free; that making us a diminished nation, a global pariah, and poorer is Trump’s actual strategy here despite whatever “great again” narrative he spews; and that our leaders must begin a serious and sustained conversation with all of us about the gravity of what is happening here. For Trump and Musk are breaking things today that will be very hard, if not possible, to repair.
One of the things Trump and Musk appear to be breaking in their manic assault on the US may be Trump’s single most important brand attribute - that with Trump you get success, winning, a better life, more money, more opportunity, more prosperity, “greatness.” I think this aspect of Trump’s brand has been his primary bridge to his non-MAGA supporters. Even in his 2020 loss the exit polls showed Trump with huge advantages over Biden on the economy. We’ve been told that the nostalgia for the pre-COVID economy under Trump was central to his victory in 2024, and we know this aura of success has been reinforced by the very public support Musk and other Silicon Valley leaders have provided him (and why they were so prominently featured at his Inaugural). We see Trump as a monster. Many see him as a successful businessman who can make their lives better. A winner.
There is a growing body of data that suggests that this part of Trump’s brand, perhaps the only attractive part, is slipping away from him. First, let’s look at today’s newly revised Atlanta Fed GDPNow forecast. In this highly influential forecast GDP growth this quarter has declined 6 points - 6 points - due to Trump’s reckless economic policies. In my more than 30 years looking at economic and public data this may be the single most astonishing thing I have ever seen. It certainly suggests that we should see Trump as far more a historic fuck-up than a proven winner.
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Why are the MAGAs going along with this ... can't they SEE what a traitor he is?
