How Trump Survives

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How Trump Survives
Column: The president benefits from the economy—and from his enemies


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BY: Matthew Continetti
August 31, 2018 5:00 am

The litany has been repeated so often that it's easy to recite: The walls are closing in on Donald Trump, person x or y or z is going to bring him down, it's only a matter of time before he is caught or exposed or loses his base of support and driven from public life. The phrases sound out from our cable channels. We see them in newspaper headlines and in our Twitter timelines. This time Trump has gone too far. The end is near. Take that, Drumpf!

What is forgotten is that the president has operated in this atmosphere of emergency and crisis and imminent doom since he announced his campaign. No matter how dire the outcry, he moves on. His political standing remains stable. At the end of last week, after Manafort and Cohen, after Trump found himself on the receiving end of the reality politics playbook, NBC News and the Wall Street Journal polled his job approval. There was no appreciable change.

Why? The most important reason has to be the remarkable state of the American economy. On Election Day 2016, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 18,332.43. On August 29, it closed at 26,124.57. That is an increase of some 40 percent. Other indices show similar gains. Growth in GDP went from 1.5 percent in 2016 to 2.3 percent in 2017 and, helped by the excellent 4.2 percent number in the second quarter, is forecast for around 3 percent in 2018.

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[Frank Cannon]

Survives? The guys thriving while all the DC filth either dies or circles the drain.

[To-Whose-Benefit?]

It's a tough gig being MSM.

Trying to make a whole bunch of people who now Have a job hate the guy who helped them Get that job.

[aligncare]

Survives? The guys thriving while all the DC filth either dies or circles the drain.

That’s not what I heard from the political geniuses on the ‘Democrats Must Love Sessions’ thread.

According to them, the fact that Trump had a history of pursuing beautiful, sexy women, and of speaking bluntly about his political foes, that disqualifies him for the presidency.

Never mind that he actually puts American citizens first or that he has the instincts and political acumen to single-handedly – and against overwhelming opposition – make headway in his promise to rollback the burdensome regulatory state and drain the establishment swamp.

[Concerned]

I think Trump deserves a tremendous amount of credit for the economy.  Clearly his policies of tax cuts and deregulation have had a positive impact on the economy......bigly.  If he were capable of focusing on that message, I think it would benefit him tremendously.  As the article in the OP notes:  "As the saying goes: When the economy is the issue, it's the only issue."  Of course, this President can't and won't make the economy "the issue".  He insists on saying and tweeting stupid things to ensure the economy isn't the issue but that he's the focus.  Just more self-inflicted wounds IMO.

[Wingnut]

But I thought Trump inherited the vibrant economy from Obama. 

[kidd]

The litany has been repeated so often that it's easy to recite: The walls are closing in on Donald Trump, person x or y or z is going to bring him down, it's only a matter of time before he is caught or exposed or loses his base of support and driven from public life. The phrases sound out from our cable channels. We see them in newspaper headlines and in our Twitter timelines. This time Trump has gone too far. The end is near. Take that, Drumpf!

I've read that those who believe that the latest MSM "Trump is toast" headlines should be referred to as "Great Pumpkin" democrats.

LOL!

[DCPatriot]

I think Trump deserves a tremendous amount of credit for the economy.  Clearly his policies of tax cuts and deregulation have had a positive impact on the economy......bigly.  If he were capable of focusing on that message, I think it would benefit him tremendously.  As the article in the OP notes:  "As the saying goes: When the economy is the issue, it's the only issue."  Of course, this President can't and won't make the economy "the issue".  He insists on saying and tweeting stupid things to ensure the economy isn't the issue but that he's the focus.  Just more self-inflicted wounds IMO.

IMO, the attention span of the public is miniscule .

You can figuratively slap their heads with that information in plenty of time.  It's only getting better by the day.

And we've discussed the benefits of his tweeting in here on several occasions. 

[Wingnut]

@Cyber Liberty

They got him now....right.  This time for sure.

[Cyber Liberty]

@Cyber Liberty

They got him now....right.  This time for sure.

And here I thought my observation was unique...

[Wingnut]

And here I thought my observation was unique...

I did steal it from you ole Pal!..   

[Cyber Liberty]

I did steal it from you ole Pal!..   

@The Ghost

So, from which of us did Matthew Continetti steal it?

[Concerned]

IMO, the attention span of the public is miniscule .

You can figuratively slap their heads with that information in plenty of time.  It's only getting better by the day.

And we've discussed the benefits of his tweeting in here on several occasions.

I agree that the public has a limited attention span which makes message discipline and focus all the more important.  Unfortunately, this President is insistent upon stepping on his own good economic message with Twitter nonsense.   The nonsense then inevitably gets covered by the press and the President then inevitably whines about what a victim he is.     That cycle doesn't help the public focus on the good economics that are indeed occuring, and it doesn't help the President (beyond his base of 35%), but he's incapable of change at this point IMO.

[Wingnut]

@The Ghost

So, from which of us did Matthew Continetti steal it?

LOL  I didn't know he was using it!