If one were to take press pronouncements about President Donald Trump at face value, it would be difficult not to believe the Ragin’ Cajun’s assessment claiming his administration is on the verge of collapse. And yet, despite the often-eloquent rhetoric regarding “Trump’s final act,” the American people might not have the same fatalistic view. And the polls prove it.
Writing in The New York Times, famed Democratic Party strategist James Carville urged his fellow leftists to “retreat” and let the 47th president dig his own political grave.
He exclaimed: “Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight, and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular.
Until then, I’m calling for a strategic political retreat.”
One might assume that the recent Oval Office debacle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was the catalyst for this prophesized buckling. Some may believe that engaging in a high-stakes tariff war with North American neighbors might be a suitable straw for the laden camel’s back.
And Carville could have it right. But that’s not what the American public thinks.