Trump hopes to boost GOP in midterms by latching onto another NFL-style 'cultural flashpoint'

[DonViejo]

Trump's real plan for 2018

Mike Allen, Jonathan Swan

President Trump today will unveil a $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan that his own aides don't think will pass, and a $4 trillion budget that reads like "science fiction."

It's the strangest of year-ahead plans for a party that controls the White House and both chambers of Congress: Top Republicans see Job 1 for this year as promoting the tax cut they passed last year.

So ignore the documents and blather today. Here's Trump's real plan for '18:

A source close to the White House tells me that with an eye to getting Republicans excited about voting for Republicans in midterms, the president this year will be looking for "unexpected cultural flashpoints" — like the NFL and kneeling — that he can latch onto in person and on Twitter.

The source said Trump "is going to be looking for opportunities to stir up the base, more than focusing on any particular legislation or issue."

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[tanyev]

1. He thinks he can keep the con going forever.

I hope he's spectacularly wrong.

[Fred Sanders]

2. What more to "stir up the base"? That cauldron is already full of boiling idiots.

[comradebillyboy]

3. So he's going to come out in favor of domestic abuse?

[Generic Brad]

4. In other words - the same old same old

This is what he has done every day of his presidency. He basically has no plan for the GOP. Good.

[HopeAgain]

5. My thought exactly...

how is that a change?

[Solly Mack]

9. Yep

[IluvPitties]

6. Racist scumbag.

[Tom Rinaldo]

7. "stir up the base, more than focusing on any particular legislation or issue."

In other words the purpose of winning elections is to win elections. Text book authoritarianism. Win elections to stay in power, until someday you don't have to even bother with elections anymore.

[hfojvt]

8. Well the other purpose

is to give tax cuts to the rich.

After all, if they lose power a tiny amount of the tax cuts might be rolled back - see Clinton and Obama.

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. Yes, power has its privileges n/t

[Orsino]

11. Bullshit.

Trump will continue flailing, tweeting, and raging about how his flailtweeting isn't making him look good.

He may be smart enough to worry about the GOP's hold on power, but he is not smart enough to learn how to change anything.