As President Trump explained to a reporter after he imposed his historic tariff regime in early April, “sometimes you have to take medicine to fix something.” Trump’s shock therapy treatment is having the opposite effect: the patient is getting much sicker and suffering greatly, pleading for relief. There is no guarantee that the patient will survive another 100 days of this “medicine.” Surviving many more months or years of this shock therapy treatment is likely impossible.
As shown by the large and growing number of polls, Trump’s approval among the American people across almost every issue, most notably the economy and tariffs and inflation, his gutting of the federal government and defiance of the Constitution and the rule of law, is rapidly falling to levels not seen for an American president in the last 80 years. In a new essay at The Hill, leading Democratic Party pollster Mark Mellman describes this as, “Trump is suffering a broad-based crash. Never before has a president presented so broad an agenda, so thoroughly rejected by the public. If you’re a Republican who won by less than 10 points, you are either frightened or foolish.”
