{"id":353560,"date":"2018-03-23T22:27:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T21:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=353560"},"modified":"2018-03-24T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T23:16:00","slug":"trumps-base-abandoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/trumps-base-abandoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump’s Base Abandoning Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

The most reliable online real-time measure of Donald Trump\u2019s base voters\u2019 ongoing support for him is at Breitbart News, the reader-comments to their top Trump headlines, as listed under the \u201cComments\u201d section as \u201cSort by Best.\u201d <\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

At the very top of their news on March 23rd was the following headline, followed by the top \u201cSort by Best\u201d comment and the responses to it, each of which also indicates the net number of up-votes by the site\u2019s readership:<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/03\/23\/donald-trump-signs-bloated-1-3-trillion-omnibus-bill-military-funding\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Donald Trump Signs Bloated $1.3 Trillion Omnibus Bill, Cites Military Funding<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By Charlie Spiering, Friday 23 March 2018, 14,005 comments by 4PM<\/span><\/p>\n

COMMENTS (BEST)<\/span><\/p>\n

chrism12743 \u2022 an hour ago<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh he is right, his presidency just came to a screeching halt, he can GFH!!! All done with the Trump train, just got run over by it!!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 451\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ricocat1\u00a0 <\/span>chrism12743 \u2022 an hour ago<\/span><\/p>\n

DUMP TRUMP!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 260\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Doctor Nefario\u00a0 <\/span>ricocat1 \u2022 an hour ago<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m done with Trump. He let us down. People were not shouting “Build the Military” at his rally’s, they were shouting “BUILD THE WALL”. Swamp dwellers McConnell and Ryan finally did it. They figured out how to split Trump’s base and bring him down.<\/span><\/p>\n

Go ahead. Impeach Trump. I don’t care anymore. Bring on President Pence to pick up the pieces and shoulder on.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 298\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014<\/span><\/p>\n

What this means is that increasing the size of the U.S. Government\u2019s debt is, to Trump\u2019s main base of political support (as reflected by the biggest online news-site that informs his electoral folllowing), absolutely unacceptable.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The day\u2019s second-biggest news-story was:<\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/big-government\/2018\/03\/22\/liberals-panic-john-bolton-appointment-national-security-advisor\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals Panic over John Bolton Appointment as National Security Advisor<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

By Joel B. Pollak, Thursday 22 Mar 2018, 4,085 comments as of 3PM<\/span><\/p>\n

President Donald Trump appointed former UN Ambassador John Bolton as his new National Security Advisor on Thursday evening. He will replace current NSA General H.R. McMaster.<\/span><\/p>\n

The move was largely hailed by conservatives \u2014 even though some criticized his support for the Iraq War. Bolton is known to be a hawk on North Korea \u2014 he has even recommended a pre-emptive attack on the regime if it continues to threaten the U.S. \u2014 and his addition to Trump\u2019s foreign policy team sends a strong message ahead of negotiations between the president and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberals panicked, and advised each other to do so.<\/span><\/p>\n

COMMENTS (BEST)<\/span><\/p>\n

Common sense \u2022 18 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

The libbys panties being in a bunch is proof that he is the right man for the job<\/span>👍👍<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 436\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ragnar Danneskjold\u00a0 <\/span>Common sense \u2022 18 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing worse or better than Liberals walking around with WEDGIES….<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 136\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Skeptical Shazaam\u00a0 <\/span>Ragnar Danneskjold \u2022 18 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

Wait…. what?<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought all of Zero’s acolytes wanted to bomb, rape & pillage the world. Zero bombed the most countries ever and all those insane leftists \/ progressives loved him for it!!<\/span><\/p>\n

So now these leftists \/ progressives are anti-war? After complete silence during Zero’s entire “reign of error”? What utter hypocrites!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 131\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

amongoose\u00a0 <\/span>Skeptical Shazaam \u2022 18 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

Not to mention that most of those on the left voted for that war.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 86\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

John (MAGAnum)\u00a0 <\/span>amongoose \u2022 18 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

Bolton = the right man for the right job at the right time !!<\/span><\/p>\n

After 8 years of OdumbSH!T the world is more dangerous, including America !<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 121\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

FriendlyNeighborhoodEconomist\u00a0 <\/span>John (MAGAnum) \u2022 17 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

Amen!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 28\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

ricocat1\u00a0 <\/span>FriendlyNeighborhoodEconomist \u2022 17 hours ago<\/span><\/p>\n

President Trump is probably finished regardless IF he signs the $1.3 TRILLION Omnibus bill.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 50\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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So: The federal-debt issue is killing Trump politically. His voters don\u2019t much care whether he starts World War III by his respecting and appointing such people as the super-neoconservative John Bolton. Bolton\u2019s being loathed by \u201cThe libbys\u201d (liberals) convinces Trump\u2019s followers that Bolton is \u201cthe right man for the job.\u201d By stark contrast, they\u2019re rabid against Trump\u2019s signing the Government\u2019s budget bill. And, to them, that\u2019s a much bigger issue than whether there will soon be a WW III.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

If Trump\u2019s poll-numbers fall as a result (as I expect they will), then Trump himself will come to be unacceptable to congressional Republicans, who are nervous about keeping their seats. A likely consequence would be a 25th-Amendment removal and replacement of him by the consistently far-right Vice President Mike Pence. This would not require any impeachment of Trump. A President Pence would likely promise to slash federal spending but likely retain Trump\u2019s new neoconservative foreign-policy team, and many of Trump\u2019s other appointees. However, getting the Democrats to join in his military invasions would be unlikely unless the initial uptick in that White House\u2019s approval-ratings appears likely to last. I doubt that it would.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

It seems that we\u2019re heading into chaos in Washington. <\/i><\/b>Giving America\u2019s voters a choice only between unacceptable candidates in both Parties<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a> could turn out to have been only a prelude to revolution.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a problem of Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton. It\u2019s now escalating into a problem of this Government\u2019s legitimacy. It\u2019s reaching beyond the question of Trump\u2019s legitimacy, to a challenge testing the existing system\u2019s legitimacy.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse The most reliable online real-time measure of Donald Trump\u2019s base voters\u2019 ongoing support for him is at Breitbart News, the reader-comments to their top Trump headlines, as listed under the \u201cComments\u201d section as \u201cSort by Best.\u201d At the very top of their news on March 23rd was the following headline, followed by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":353562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,519],"tags":[30,1036,3604,698,804,754,523,49,1024],"class_list":{"0":"post-353560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-editorials","8":"category-newswire","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-hillary-clinton","13":"tag-politics-2","14":"tag-syria","15":"tag-ukraine","16":"tag-usa-news","17":"tag-ww3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}