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Peacetrain

(24,288 posts)
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:23 AM Dec 2025

GOP Strategist Reveals Why Trump Is Now 'Politically Insane'

https://news.yahoo.com/news/articles/gop-strategist-reveals-why-trump-204308665.html

"Washington, D.C., in the 2026 midterm elections.

In an op-ed published in the Wall Street Journal on Friday titled “Alarm Bells Ring, Are You Listening?” Rove said Trump’s attitude toward the cost-of-living crisis and his sinking voter approval ratings on the economy should be a warning sign for the GOP.

“Mr. Trump despises Joe Biden, yet he’s making the same mistake his predecessor made,” Rove wrote. “Telling voters not to believe their own lying checkbooks was politically insane. Mr. Trump is doing the same thing.”

Trump’s approval rating on the economy has fallen drastically in recent weeks. A poll from AP-NORC released last week found just 31 percent of voters approve of Trump’s handling of the economy."


Maybe they are waking up and smelling the coffee
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GOP Strategist Reveals Why Trump Is Now 'Politically Insane' (Original Post) Peacetrain Dec 2025 OP
They may be smelling it, but too many will be drinking it anyway. MLAA Dec 2025 #1
Remember who Rove is and note that he imbeds a lie karynnj Dec 2025 #2
Do they just share one brain between them? travelingthrulife Dec 2025 #3
Trump is doing fine. They should let him hold a rally once or twice a week. dalton99a Dec 2025 #4

karynnj

(60,972 posts)
2. Remember who Rove is and note that he imbeds a lie
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:35 AM
Dec 2025

as fact. Biden never told people to not believe their own perception of how the economy affected them.

In fact, while he struggled hard with no real majority in the Senate to pass things that would help, he was well aware that some were still hurting. His own family history included being in an area not doing well when the country's economy was doing better than before. ( He was born in December 1941 and he spoke of when he was a young boy. After WWII (1945), was a time where the US was thriving as most of Europe was trying to recover from WWII and China was in civil war and Japan was occupied.)

travelingthrulife

(5,192 posts)
3. Do they just share one brain between them?
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:41 AM
Dec 2025

What part of 'best economic recovery in the world post pandemic' escapes these lying fools.

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