Republican Senator Says Conservatives in Denial About Donald Trump

He’s absolutely right. President Donald Trump hasn’t just been the only guy in the ring. His approval ratings are in the gutter, and the White House is recruiting primary challengers to take him out. Real Clear Politics’ polling average for presidential job approval is now at 39/56.

“The new president would not merely demonstrate a preference for specific sectors of the economy, he would meddle in the economy by advocating for – or conversely, by intimidating – specific companies”, wrote Flake.

In one sense, the current circumstances mirror the GOP divisions more than a century ago when Theodore Roosevelt’s breakaway Progressive Party undercut President William Howard Taft and made Woodrow Wilson the first Democratic president in 16 years. He relies on the support from conservatives and he is up for reelection in 2018. He explains his own rationale: “So as I layered in my defense mechanisms, I even found myself saying things like, ‘If I took the time to respond to every presidential tweet, there would be little time for anything else.’ Given the volume and velocity of tweets from both the Trump campaign and then the White House, this was certainly true”. “In this latest poll, that number has almost doubled to 56 percent”. You are even more responsible for this reign of incompetence and potential criminality masquerading as a presidency than those who voted for Trump. His voters said they would have divided evenly between Democrat Bill Clinton and Republican President George H.W. Bush.

Huckabee agreed with Flake that conservatives want free trade, but it has to be “fair” trade, preventing nations like China from taking advantage of us.

While Trump diehards detest the official Republican Party as do a band of conservatives in the House of Representatives, they all owe their very existence to the official GOP. He has also gone on extended Twitter rants about how they ought to eliminate the filibuster for legislation, but Republicans are ignoring the suggestion, because they know that sooner or later they’ll be in the minority again and they want to preserve the tool for their own use. If not, so be it. “We manufacture twice as much as we did in the 1980s with one-third fewer workers and those productivity gains will continue”. Let us recall that Trump’s own children couldn’t vote in the NY primary for their father.

Cassidy and Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., have proposed converting the $110 billion they estimate Obama’s law spends yearly for health insurance into broad grants to states. As The Arizona Republic notes, Democrats are unlikely to vote for him no matter what he says about Trump, and the Trump-supporting Republican base hates him for speaking out against Trump and supporting “centrist” policies like comprehensive immigration reform.

Flake was also highly critical of conservatives’ treatment of President Barack Obama while he was in office.

Republican Senator Jeff Flake provoked the ire of supporters of President Donald Trump by penning an editorial criticizing the president and accusing his party of being “in denial” over the state of the USA government. Yes, the GOP has accommodated itself, with varying degrees of enthusiasm and sincerity, to its new leader.

The problem for Trump is he has to win over more Republicans in Congress or his agenda won’t go anywhere. There’s no telling how the president would react to spreading apostasy, but it probably wouldn’t be pretty.