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Donald Trump is coming off one of his roughest weeks as president, at least in his critics eyes -- instigating a government shutdown fight, provoking his defense chiefs resignation, abruptly pulling U.S. troops from two global hotspots, and even thinking about firing the head of the U.S. central bank.
Yet, as hard as it is for the outside world to comprehend, the president and his advisers think all that upheaval adds up to a winning hand.
By digging in on his threat to shut down the government to try to force Congress to fund his border wall on the southern U.S. border, and by drawing down military commitments in Syria and Afghanistan in line with his America First doctrine, Trumps satisfying the demands of his most dedicated supporters -- and he knows theyre the only ones who can get him back to the presidency, said advisers inside and outside the White House.
President Trump believes one of his strengths is he is actually doing the things he told people he would do, said Marc Lotter, a member of Trumps 2020 advisory committee and former spokesman for Vice President Mike Pence. To Trump, its merely an extension of his 2020 re-election mantra: Promises made. Promises kept.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-24/trump-sees-winning-hand-as-critics-see-presidency-spiraling-down?srnd=premium
vlyons
(10,252 posts)Deep dark delusions.
Renew Deal
(81,853 posts)So Im not sure that doing what he said hed do is to his benefit. Also, once people got a taste of him, he got blown out in 2018.
unblock
(52,188 posts)after four solid years of pissing off the opposition, we're as motivated as his base it.
he can no longer get there solely by turning out his base.
he needs to form a coalition with... well, who the hell is out there that isn't permanently strongly opposed to him?
politically, he's already a lame duck.
doomsayers notwithstanding, there's really no way he can win in 2020 barring outright theft of the election.