This week will be perhaps one of the most important in Donald Trump’s nascent second term as president. Wednesday will kick off his “Liberation Day” when his proposed tariffs will go into effect. Congress continues to negotiate his proposed “one big, beautiful bill” to cut taxes and ramp up defense and border spending while increasing oil production.
So far, there have been few ways for voters to register dissatisfaction on a large scale, save for a few one-off special elections to fill state legislative seats, where Democrats overperformed, a byproduct of how the Democratic Party has become one of highly educated and high-propensity voters.
