Why Trump is So Willing to Defy Public Opinion

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : I agree 100% with the liberal editor of The New Republic Michael Tomasky: "Trump wants to be president for life - and he's already preparing for it...
48% : He openly flouted public opinion on the pandemic, civil rights, police-statism, tax policy, environmental policy, and the rule of law, helping keep his approval rate in the low 40s and Joe Biden well ahead of him in national polls.
46% : And the Trump-crafted Supreme Court has granted him (in last July's The United States v. Trump verdict) blanket immunity from prosecution (during or after his time in the White House) for any crime - yes, any crime, including the murder of one's political opponents - he commits in connection with his "official presidential duties"!
44% : Only 29% of the nation's adults for Trump last November, Trump's 1.5 percent official popular vote victory is one of the smallest ever in the history of US presidential elections, Trump's victory in the Electoral College is due to just 0.15%of
41% : Look at how Trump conducted himself during his first term, when he wasn't term-limited: just as Snyder predicted, he acted in brazen defiance of majority opinion and with the authoritarian intent of not accepting defeat in the next election.
40% : What normal US president would do this and also launch absurd attacks on Social Security, which a great majority of Americans want protected and properly funded, while applauding a demented multi-billionaire sociopath and fellow malignant fascist/narcissist (the Sieg-Heiling oligarch Elon Musk) he has illegally empowered to attack anything and everyone remotely decent in the federal government?
36% : " Dead voters elected Joe Biden in 2020 and dead people are getting Social Security.
34% : Yes, he attacked Social Security.
32% : My gut feeling is that Trump and his administration will try and that it won't work.
32% : Trump has already orchestrated a coup against the United States in which he wanted to see his own vice president hanged.
28% : One theory is that the Constitution's two-term presidential limit (under the 1951 22 Amendment) means that Trump no longer needs to worry about re-election.
28% : When this [Trump's threat to go for a third term through any means at his disposal including force] comes up on cable news, the host typically asks the guests whether Trump is just trolling the libs or should be taken seriously.
27% : I can't stand Timothy Snyder politically, academically[1], or personally, but he had Trump understood pretty damn well in early 2017 when he told Salon''s Chauncy de Vega that Trump45 would likely try to stage a coup: De Vega: "you discuss the idea that Donald Trump will have his own version of Hitler's Reichstag fire to expand his power and take full control of the government by declaring a state of emergency.
27% : The "most dangerous criminal in human history" -- as Noam Chomsky described Trump in January of 2020 (with a special emphasis on the militantly fossil-capitalist Trump's eco-cidal nature) - is back in the world's most dangerous job.
23% : One could argue that 2020 Trump tried and failed to make the George Floyd Rebellion into his Reichstag Fire Moment[3].
22% : Trump has also successfully placed fascist subordinates atop the Department of Homeland Security (the noxious dog-killer Kristi Noem), the Department of Defense (the open Christian white nationalist Pete Hegseth) and the Joints Chiefs of Staff (the ridiculous MAGA general Dan "Raizin" Caine).
21% : The Dismal Dems Does the orange-sprayed Dear Leader need to worry that the Democrats will spring into action to arouse the masses to stop the new Trump fascist regime before it consolidates to the point where Trump can stay in power until he dies?
20% : And Trump will count on fascist paramilitaries -- including a bunch he let out of prison -- to help keep him in power by force.
19% : This time, unlike during Trump's first term, there will be "no one around to stop Trump from declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution or even an election."
18% : As Robert Reich recently noted on Facebook: "Trump keeps lying about Social Security as an excuse to gut the program.
17% : Also consistent with Snyder's April 2017 take and especially with Chauncy de Vega's view of Trump as a fascist, the terrible events of January 6, 2021 were just the last in a long line of proofs that there was indeed a fascist in the White House.
17% : And, really, why shouldn't Trump think he can blow through the 22 Amendment?
10% : " All of this and more - the funding and staff cuts and the sociopath Musk's role in the government - polls badly for Trump and his party. A Coup Attempt Predicted But of course Donald Trump has never been a normal US president.
8% : the US electorate; Trump would have lost to Harris in both the Electoral College but for stepped-up neo-Jim Crow racist voter suppression across the country.[4] But I digress.

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