Trump’s Circular Firing Squad

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National Review

Trump and his critics are attacking each other, failing to focus on the only story that counts: the welfare of the United States.

T
he American political system has never quite seen anything like the current opposition to President Trump and his unusual reaction to it.
We are no longer in the customary political landscape. Usually, the out-of-power opposition — in this case, the Democratic party — offers most of the criticism and all of the alternative policies in order to win in the next election. Instead, Trump has an entire circle of diverse critics shooting at him. But they just as often end up hitting one another — and themselves.

So far, Trump’s most furious Democratic opponents have not been able to offer alternative visions to Trump’s agenda that might help them win back Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. Higher taxes, more government regulations, less gas and oil production, loose immigration policies, and the promotion of identity politics are not really winning issues.
Instead, the aim is to either to remove Trump before his first term is up or to so delegitimize him that he is rendered powerless.