Donald Trump hasn’t even taken office yet, but he’s already made a major misstep, according to a former Republican writer.
Trump, who is going to be entering his second term as a “lame duck” President, has been under fire for his nominations to important posts, including former lawmaker Matt Gaetz, who would be Attorney General.
Those nominations could be his undoing, according to New York Times columnist David French, an ex-writer for the conservative National Review.
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French, who previously shared signs of what he thought could be the end of the MAGA movement, said Trump’s nominations are a threat to the former and incoming president.
“That was quick. Donald Trump is planting the seeds of his own political demise,” French wrote Sunday in an article titled, “Donald Trump Is Already Starting to Fail.”
“The corrupt, incompetent and extremist men and women he’s appointing to many of the most critical posts in his cabinet are direct threats to the well-being of the country, but they’re also political threats to Trump and to his populist allies,” he said.
According to French, Trump’s problem is that he has purged everyone around him who held him back from his worst political instincts. In doing so, Trump has now been free to go more extreme than ever, including by nominating unserious individuals for important positions.
Those nominees, the columnist wrote, have ideas that are incompatible with the needs of everyday citizens.
“But here is his fundamental problem: The desires of his heart and the grievances of his base are ultimately incompatible with the demands of the majority, and the more he pursues his own priorities, the more he’ll revive his opposition. He’ll end his political career as an unpopular politician who ushered in a Democratic majority yet again,” French wrote on Sunday. “The reason goes deeper than ideology (many of his nominees are extremists) or scandal (Kennedy, Hegseth, and Matt Gaetz, each have their own histories of alleged sexual misconduct, for example). Ultimately, it goes to competence: Can you do the job we ultimately hired you to do?”
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