What If Trump Is Trying to Throw the 2018 Elections?

[DonViejo]

President could blame a Democratic House and Senate for everything

Posted Aug 1, 2018 5:02 AM
Walter Shapiro

OPINION — In this time of tumult, political truths are being knocked off their pedestals faster than Confederate statues. But even now, it seems ludicrously self-evident that a president wants to elect a Congress of his own party.

Donald Trump, however, is a president who marches to a different brass band. Consider what he has done in just the last week.

Tuesday morning, the president unleashed a bitter Twitter attack on the “globalist Koch Brothers,” excoriating as “overrated” the network of conservative donors who have been the bulwark of congressional GOP funding in the super PAC era.

Trump’s Treasury Department is working on a legally dubious backdoor maneuver that would slash capital gains taxes for the wealthy without going to Congress for legislation. If Treasury goes forward, it would hand the Democrats a potent issue for November.

Over the weekend, Trump played Rumpelstiltskin, stomping his feet and threatening to shut down the government if Congress does not provide ample funding for his cherished border wall. A pre-election shutdown would make voters question GOP competence since the Republicans control all the levers of government.

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[beachbum bob]

1. giving trump too much credit, he is chaos and chaos can't be predicted

[greymattermom]

2. I posted something like this recently.

Democrats in Congress would allow Trump to spend all his time playing golf and doing rallies, and he could blame everything on them. He'd veto a few things, but otherwise it would allow him to vacation at government expense almost every day.

[empedocles]

3. traitortrump is trying to throw the 2018 Elections

again.

Precarious.

[manor321]

4. This is such stupid shit

[at140]

5. Taxcuts for the rich and himself...

"Trump’s Treasury Department is working on a legally dubious backdoor maneuver that would slash capital gains taxes for the wealthy without going to Congress for legislation. If Treasury goes forward, it would hand the Democrats a potent issue for November. "

I do not understand why this is not the top issue for the democratic party. 95% of the taxcut money went to corporations which are basically owned by the top 1-2% as major share holders & executives.

The middle class got a bone thrown at them. It is barely noticeable and is TEMPORARY. While the corporate taxcut is PERMANENT. How fair is that? Once low information voters understand this, the blue wave can become a tsunami.

Trump corporation benefited 10,000 times more than average middle class family with the recent taxcut.

[exboyfil]

6. They said the same thing in 2016

and see what happened. He moved the needle close enough in the right states that the other structural inequities and cheating pushed him over the top. He dragged the Senate and House along with him.

[Johonny]

8. I agree

I think he was as surprised as anyone that there were that many suckers out there. 2018 will be different in that it's really a series of regional elections so his broad appeal among low lifes might not have as much influence.

[MineralMan]

7. I doubt that Trump is capable of such long-term thinking, really.

I see no signs of it.

[empedocles]

9. This is so 'loosey-goosey'

it's hard to grasp

[global1]

10. How This All Ends.....

Trump completely destroys the Repug Party to where they can't recover. Then he says that this was his goal all the time - to destroy the Repug Party. He played them for fools and they went along hook, line and sinker. Everything he's done in the last two years was on purpose to do in the Repug Party.

Then he claims he was a Dem all along and starts re-righting all the things that he destroyed. He calls himself a hero of the people. He avoids impeachment and jail and becomes more popular than ever.

That's the nightmare I had the other night.

[MiniMe]

11. Not a bad thought

Then they will blame the "tax and spend" Dems for the huge deficits that are coming as a result of his bloated spending and tax cuts.