"I believe that the administration’s metastasizing economic catasrophe is a critical development.
As I read the history of successful autogolpes, politicians who win an election and then effectively destroy the democracy that elevated them, it is almost always the case that their consolidation of power rests upon the perception of economic achievement."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/did-peter-navarro-save-democracy
"Take the case of Hitler. And spare me the fake outrage: We’re well past the point where you can say that MAGA/Nazi comparisons are illegitimate."
"Tragically, Trump’s second term is already more lawless and more authoritarian than any in US history. ...
For the first time in modern history, [investors] are questioning the dollar’s primacy and whether it should remain the world’s reserve currency. To the world’s investors, it’s clear that Trump is dragging American down, not lifting it up."
~ Steven Greenhouse
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/28/trump-second-term-worst-ever
"When Trump bashes Fox, it's often a sign that things aren't going so well."
~ Brian Stelter
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket #polls
/4
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17458454095623a30a7073df1/raw
"It has been said that the only thing that can beat Trump is Trump himself. He is well on the way to proving correct that observation."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket #polls #immigrants
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"All of this actually [i.e., Trump's appalling poll performance] matters. And Trump—despite his obvious cognitive slide—gets it as well. That is why Monday morning he slammed the polls on social media as 'FAKE POLLS FROM FAKE NEWS ORGANIZATIONS.'”
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket #polls #immigrants
/6
https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/trumps-collapsing-poll-numbers-matterwhich
"He then called out the NY Times, Washington Post and Fox News by name and demanding they be 'investigated for ELECTION FRAUD' for these polls. (Trump left out the other recent polls that show the same horrible approval numbers such as Pew, Reuters, CBS and The Economist.) He added for bad measure that the media is 'ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE.'”
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket #polls #immigrants
/7
"There’s neofascism and crypto-fascism and ur-fascism and Islamofascism. But Donald Trump has given us something new: clown-show fascism.
Clown-show fascism describes a regime marked simultaneously by hubristic and defiant assaults on the democratic and constitutional order on the one hand and, on the other, a nearly laughable incompetence in just about every other area of the regime’s activity."
~ Michael Tomasky
#Trump #fascism #incompetence #ClownShowFascism
/8
https://newrepublic.com/article/194463/100-days-trump-clown-show-fascism
"The early reviews are in: Trump 2 is a box office disaster.
Trump has now matched his own record as the only president in modern history to post net negative approval ratings just 100 days into a term."
~ Taegan Goddard
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket #polls #immigrants
/9
https://politicalwire.com/2025/04/27/an-unpopular-president-is-a-weak-president/
“'Think about the litany of mistakes.' Rachel Maddow says Trump is attempting an 'authoritarian overthrow' of the US government, but is too incompetent to pull it off."
~ Mike Sington quoted by Greg Dworkin
"Trump voters are starting to turn on him because they took him seriously when he said he would lower costs and didn’t take him seriously when he said he’d act like a dictator. And now they are realizing the opposite is true."
~ Senator Chris Murphy
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket #polls #immigrants
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"Trump’s 41% approval rating is the lowest for any newly elected president at 100 days dating back at least to Dwight Eisenhower – including Trump’s own first term."
~ Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy
If he could just find a nice church pew somewhere where he could chew gum and slumber. But we mustn't forget the business, tech, and media elites who inflicted him on us.
#Trump #tariffs #economy #recession #StockMarket #polls #immigrants
/12
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/politics/approval-rating-trump-100-days/index.html
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