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highplainsdem

(49,044 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 10:05 AM Jun 2020

Pro-Trump WSJ editors warn him he's headed for "historic repudiation" & will take GOP Senate w/ him

HuffPost article about the editorial, which was published online last night:


https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wall-street-journal-editorial-donald-trump-election-warning_n_5ef5d019c5b6ca97090e1856


President Donald Trump is headed “for what could be an historic repudiation that would take the Republican Senate down with him,” the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal warned in a column Thursday.

The conservative newspaper’s board said Trump had “reverted to his worst form” just four months before the 2020 election, and that he had “no second-term agenda, or even a message beyond four more years of himself” with “little time to recover.”

-snip-

But “millions of Americans are close to deciding that four more years are more risk than they can stand,” said the board, which in recent weeks has attacked Trump over his haphazard coronavirus task force briefings and his attempted smearing of MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough.

The editorial also suggested that Trump “lacks the self-awareness and discipline” to campaign on an agenda of resurrecting the economy following the pandemic.

-snip-




The WSJ editorial board is delusonal if they think Trump has "reverted" to anything. What they call "his worst form" is his ONLY form. They just chose to blind themselves to it because of tax cuts and deregulation.

And they're lacking in self-awareness themselves if they're just NOW worrying that Trump lacks self-awareness and discipline.

This editorial shows just how panicked even the elite of the traditional right are now.

But the monster they're watching is the one they helped create. And history won't forget that.




Direct link to that WSJ editorial:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-trump-referendum-11593127700
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Pro-Trump WSJ editors warn him he's headed for "historic repudiation" & will take GOP Senate w/ him (Original Post) highplainsdem Jun 2020 OP
Trump is Frankenstein's reanimated monster... Moostache Jun 2020 #1
Truly, that is the case. onecaliberal Jun 2020 #4
On the plus side,... flor-de-jasmim Jun 2020 #2
I hope its so fucking bad that they become like the Whig Party. nt ooky Jun 2020 #3
+1,000,000 highplainsdem Jun 2020 #12
They ought to shut up and let Trump be Trump. dalton99a Jun 2020 #5
Oh man the down ballot voting GusBob Jun 2020 #6
And their buddies on wall street will get Elizabeth Warren as Treasury Secretary. redstatebluegirl Jun 2020 #7
How do you revert to something you never stopped? ibegurpard Jun 2020 #8
He'll blame the Senate. "It's their fault if they Phoenix61 Jun 2020 #9
THis is why I say the GOP eventually dumps him before November ScratchCat Jun 2020 #10
They also can see we're already in a recession, duforsure Jun 2020 #11

flor-de-jasmim

(2,125 posts)
2. On the plus side,...
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 10:09 AM
Jun 2020

While the WSJ may think that tying the Senate's fortune/future to Trump's may be a wake-up call for Trump, I can easily imagine Trump feeling satisfied that if he goes down, at least he won't be the only one, and he'll have lots of others to blame for his loss ("if they had just worked harder to get reelected", etc.).

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
7. And their buddies on wall street will get Elizabeth Warren as Treasury Secretary.
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 10:32 AM
Jun 2020

They will be having nightmares every night for 4 years.

Phoenix61

(17,019 posts)
9. He'll blame the Senate. "It's their fault if they
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 10:59 AM
Jun 2020

had just worked harder and gotten my agenda passed none of this would have happened.” It’s easier to nail jello to a tree than to get a narcissist to accept blame for a bad outcome.

ScratchCat

(2,002 posts)
10. THis is why I say the GOP eventually dumps him before November
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 11:25 AM
Jun 2020

He is going to cause down-ballot armageddon for the GOP if he is on the ticket.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
11. They also can see we're already in a recession,
Fri Jun 26, 2020, 11:56 AM
Jun 2020

And with trump and the Republicans stiffing the American people with this next stimulus payout to us is so low , we'll soon be heading towards the trump depression, which when he realizes he will lose he will then do things causing it to be worse knowing his fate and freedoms will be pretty horrible for him and all his family when he's ousted. Expect some really wild threats from trump soon as he sees things continue to snowball against him, ad more gets exposed. He now knows he will not escape justice i think . Likely why he looks like shxt too.

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