There’s a large market for “Trump is bad” posts. I wrote one of them back in May:
It’s easy to tune these posts out, for at least two reasons. One is partisanship — as a reader, I’m sure you know how hard it is to separate “Trump is bad” from “Trump made me mad”. The second is fatigue — you’ve heard the familiar litany of all of Trump’s outrages, and reading it one more time is both redundant and depressing.
Today I’m going to do something a little different, which is to ask: Why, exactly, has the second Trump presidency been such a failure?
Before I do that, we should establish that in the eyes of the nation, Trump’s second presidency has been a failure, at least so far. His approval rating, going into the midterm election, is at historic lows:
