Friends,
As I travel around the country flogging my new book Coming Up Short (which, please remember, you can order here, and the audiobook here), I'm seeing a groundswell of revulsion against Trump.
His economy is a disaster. He promised to bring down prices, yet the prices of most goods are rising. Food prices are soaring. Job growth has stalled. American manufacturing has contracted for six straight months.
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He surrounds himself with sycophants and lapdogs who tell him only how wonderfully he's doing -- he fires anyone who tells him the truth -- which means he's flying blind and doesn't know how badly he's doing.
Trump's rampage is inadvertently teaching many Americans the importance of things we once took for granted: democracy, the rule of law, due process, federalism, checks and balances. As well as the value of several programs we took for granted, such as Medicaid, food assistance, and child vaccines.
A new cohort of progressive young candidates is catching on with voters. They include Zohran Mamdani in New York and Senate candidates Graham Platner in Maine, Dan Osborn in Nebraska, Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, and Nathan Sage in Iowa.
The federal courts are doing a commendable job refusing to go along with what Trump wants. In just the last 10 days, they've said no to Trump's taking tariff authority away from Congress, no to Trump's withholding research funding from Harvard, no to Trump's firing an FTC commissioner, no to his effort to deport Guatemalan children, no to his use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act to speed deportations, and no to the deployment of the National Guard for law enforcement purposes in California.
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