Detached from Reality
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Here’s an easy one. If a president’s signature policies have been roundly rejected by the public and he is facing an election year where angry votes are primed to vote against his party, should he:
Acknowledge the problem
Ask forgiveness
Change direction
Or should he:
Say the problem doesn’t exist
Cast blame on others
Stay the course
If you selected the first set of options, then you are not Donald Trump.
On Tuesday, Trump went to Pennsylvania as part of an effort to address the affordability issue that has been propelling Democrats to outsized election performances this year.
To say it didn’t go well is an understatement, and is cause for believing that Republicans have painted themselves into a corner and have no way out.
In fact, Trump gave a master class in how to heighten the anxiety of an already worried congressional Republican conference—by doing everything wrong.
