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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][twitter]https://x.com/forecasterenten/status/1909615658817429707?s=46&t=MpkceUgvzQ5ldTyvmUWW-g[/twitter][/quote]
Wait, executive orders are good now? And why does he need so many executive orders when he has the entire government under his thumb?[/quote]

If you ever want to try to get your head around what Trump voters think, I really recommend The Focus Group podcast - Sarah Longwell's weekly Bulwark podcast (well one of them - that team is PRODUCTIVE) where she plays snippets from focus groups she runs (often of Trump voters) to find out what they're thinking.

Every time I think something like, well of course this time they'll disapprove of him - I listen to them talk on this podcast and I am quickly disabused. But also you'd be surprised the things that they do disapprove of.

Anyway - yes, during this chaotic intro to his new term, a lot of them are on the podcast saying how much they appreciate that he's doing so much. Doesn't really matter what he's doing - they like that he's doing things.

It really ties into what I think was Biden's worst mistake (second to not declaring early on he wasn't running for a second term): not talking to people often or well. Not sharing what he was doing. It meant people thought he wasn't doing anything. Trump is a firehose of communication - nonsense communication about horrible things, to my mind - but for a lot of people, they like that he's always out there saying something and doing something.

In short, we're sc***ed.[/quote]
Ha I’m the PP you responded to and I listen to this every week! Have since the Trump-Harris debate. Longwell is one of the smartest people in politics because she listens to voters all day long. Great post, ITA with all of it.[/quote]

I wish we Bulwark listeners could have our own forum here on DCUM! Though I suppose it'd be a fair critique that we're already talking to each other too much, and not enough to non-Bulwarkers. And that's part of why we keep getting things so terribly, terribly wrong.

Sad trombone.[/quote]

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