The setbacks and cracks in Trump’s march toward total domination of the American experience, past and present, hit a few bumps recently, but hardly enough to halt his steamroller of change and extermination.
We cheered the news that California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, has hired two former leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both of whom accused the Trump administration of abandoning scientific standards. Our thumbs went up when a Wisconsin judge ruled there was sufficient evidence for trials against two men charged with illegal attempts to keep Trump in power after his defeat in the 2020 election.
And the coup de grâce arrived when a longstanding practice halted Trump’s attempt to install his preferred prosecutors in states represented by Democrats. In effect, Republicans have defied him, thereby allowing Democrats to block his appointments.
Whether this bad news will exacerbate his dipping approval ratings or alert his crumbling base is an outcome we await. The crack in his support wall and the chink in his armor, may be a call to arms, arousing his slumbering MAGA adherents. To be sure, there is clearly alarm in his rank and file, and we hope that the Democratic army is equally alert and prepared to widen some of the splits and separations among his once-loyal followers, particularly as polls indicate a downward trend for Trump.
But, once again, you know how unpredictable the political barometer is from day to day. Even so, any weakness from the Trump quarter must be taken advantage of as we march ineluctably toward the 2026 midterm election.