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Welp, Trump was sworn in as the 47th POTUS. This time, Trump comes with the dubious honor of being America’s first convicted felon AND adjudicated sexual assaulter POTUS.

In a flurry of Executive Orders signed among them, 50 Intelligence Officers lost their security clearances because the signed a Memorandum stating the “Hunter Biden laptop” was Russian propaganda. Trump also released 1500 J6 rioters out of jail or prison.

These EOs show who Donald Trump is: an incredibly insane sociopath. A vindictive old man with small d-energy, with the emotional maturity of a middle school kid.

We are so screwed as a country.

I totally agree, Trump is a very vindictive man with revenge in his heart and will use the power of government to extract that revenge. I’ve said many times Trump has the mentality of a spoiled 4-year-old brat with his name calling and throwing of temper tantrums along with his 3rd grade schoolyard bullying tactics.

Yes, Trump pardoned the 1-6 participants, renamed the Gulf of Mexico and that mountain in Alaska. Has done pretty much so far what he campaigned on. But what he has done so far isn’t what got him elected or why approximately half of those who voted for him wanted him to do. Sure, half were MAGA, avid Trumpers, approximately around a quarter of the electorate. The other half were people voting for Trump because they thought he would do better job with the economy, inflation, rising prices, especially illegal immigration etc. than what the Biden administration had done. They voted for Trump hoping their own lives would be better, their personal situation would change, their standard of living improve. An example of this, among those voters who said they were better off 4 years ago than today, Trump won those voters 76-23 over Harris. 58% of all Americans said the economy was poor, not good, Trump won these voters 78-20 over Harris. 73% of all Americans were dissatisfied or angry with the way things were going in this country Trump won them 62-35. None of these voters gave the vindictiveness of Trump a thought. These non-MAGA, non-Trumpers, half of those who voted for Trump thought Biden and his administration failed in their job of handling or addressing inflation, rising prices, the economy as a whole, illegal immigration etc. They didn’t vote for Trump, their vote was against Biden, his replacement, Harris, against the democratic party, those in charge. Looking over the exit polling this is easily discernable.

https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-results/general/president/0

The bottom line, if Trump improves the economy, gets rid of inflation, stops rising prices, secures the border, their standard of living improves, these people, the non-MAGA won’t care what Trump does in other areas such as pardons, renaming, taking revenge on political opponents, or anything else. It seems our democracy has evolved into what have you done for me lately.

However, if he doesn't, I don't expect a massive abandonment of him as he will lie about it being the Left's fault - the same propaganda strategy he used to get elected.

We have spread some blame on the Democrats for not running an effective campaign or platform, but how do you compete with a master of lies and a gullible electorate? Looks like Dems are not as good at lying as Reeps are.

Hmm, if he doesn’t cure those main problems, he’ll lose support among the non-MAGA and drop back down to the level of support Trump had during his first term. Lies or not, a lot of those folks will be looking at their wallet. No matter how many lies, they all become irrelevant to a thinning wallet. If Trump doesn’t solve the inflation, rising prices, border problem, the democrats will have a banner year come 2026. The democrats gained 38 house seats in the 2018 election; they could very well repeat that performance if Trump doesn’t take care of those issues that he was elected to take care of.

The democrats failed to see or understand how dissatisfied most folks were with the Biden administration. Harris, the democrats thought they would win the election because she wasn’t Trump. They didn’t consider that most Americans looked on the Biden administration as either governing very poorly or as a failure to cure the problems the masses thought most important to them. Yet, by running Trump, the republicans gave the democrats, Harris a very good chance of winning whereas some other republican probably would have won in a landslide. Most Americans still dislike Trump, only this time around they disliked the job performance of Biden and company more than they disliked Trump. Look for Trump to lose a lot of support from those who voted against Biden and the democrats, but not for Trump. Who opposed Harris and the democrats last year didn’t matter much to them. When a sitting president’s overall job approval is at 40%, his disapproval at 57%, when Biden and company’s handling of most issues are disapproved at somewhere between 55-65% of all Americans, it’s a wonder, simply amazing Harris came as close as she did. The democrats ended up gaining 2 house seats while the GOP gained but 4 senate seats. As sitting presidents, Carter and Biden had roughly the same approval/disapproval among all Americans. But in 1980, Reagan won by 10 points, not 1.5. The republicans gained 35 house seats, not losing 2 and gained 12 senate seats, not 4.

Trump will lose support; he’ll lose the support of a large portion of the non-MAGA voters who voted for him. You can write this down in stone. Just like in 2018, republicans were defending Trump and what they did over those first two years of Trump when the GOP lost 35 house seats. In 2026 the republicans will once again be defending Trump and what they had done over the next two years. Wait, watch and see.