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On Monday, I went to the Stop & Shop and had that old familiar feeling. I spent over $80 on a bag of groceries. Nothing fancy, just regular groceries, not even everything I need for the week. One bag. Eighty United States dollars. Something’s gotta give. Maybe it already has.<\/p>\n

Read more New study reveals the massive con on white voters<\/a><\/p>\n

The Times<\/em><\/em> said last week that 61 percent of Americans are cutting back on food. Another 59 percent are cutting back on extra spending. Three-fourths have forgotten about Joe Biden and blame the current president for the disaster. Economic confidence hasn’t been this low since 2022. A stunning 80 percent blame him for gas price spikes, according to a Fox poll. <\/p>\n

Donald Trump was already burning us up with tariffs, but the burn rate has accelerated dramatically since the start of the war. He won’t end it, because he can’t. He’s a terrible war president. His idea of a deal is “I get everything; you get nothing.” Iran knows this about his nature, exploits it, and here we are: in war that could stretch into the summer and fall.<\/p>\n

Yet Trump is not acting like he’s in trouble. He yak-yak-yaks about ballrooms, about gas prices being “peanuts,” about how the Democrats made up the word “affordability” to make him look bad. (He is hosting an ultimate fighting circus at the White House, for God’s sake.) He created a nearly $1.8 billion slush fund to pay J6 insurrectionists for their service to him. His party is practically begging him to take the midterms seriously. “We need Republicans to do well in November,” Thom Tillis told the Times<\/em><\/em>, \u201cbut the stupid stuff is killing our chances.<\/p>\n

“Stupid stuff” might be too generous. Trump will not end his illegal war. He will not end his illegal tariffs. He will not pretend<\/em><\/em> to care about the hardship Americans are experiencing as a consequence of both. (Nor does he not care about the optics of asking taxpayers to pay for a ballroom when they can’t pay for food.) On top of that, he’s endorsing primary challengers to incumbent Republicans who would otherwise coast to victory in the coming midterms. <\/p>\n

Reporters say he’s “tightening grip on the GOP.” <\/p>\n

But it looks more like he’s sabotaging it.<\/p>\n

After all this time, we still interpret the president through a partisan lens that attempts to explain his behavior. Everyone assumes he wants<\/em><\/em> his party to keep the House, at the very least to avoid impeachment. It’s because of this assumption that Republicans are growing frustrated. \u201cThe president was elected to juice the economy, to bring down inflation, to stop illegal immigration and to get away from woke culture,\u201d a GOP pollster told the Times<\/em><\/em>. \u201cIf his highest goal were to maintain control of Congress, he would not be doing what he is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

We should consider the alternative: that control of Congress is not his highest goal.<\/p>\n

Read more Donald Trump: The complete anatomy of a billionaire born loser<\/a><\/p>\n

Anthony Scarammuci suggested as much in an interview with Bloomberg. He was the White House communications director during Trump’s first term whose tenure famously lasted 10 days. He told Mishal Husain that we’re misreading the president. His personality is such that he doesn’t want the GOP to succeed. Success would mean there’s life after Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

And, according to Donald Trump, that’s impossible.<\/p>\n

“His personality is ‘you guys were nothing before I got on the stage and I\u2019ve carried you for the last 12 years, and the 2020 election was rigged and everyone knows it, and I should\u2019ve won that election, and I\u2019ve returned to the presidency carrying all the Republicans on my back, and when I leave … you\u2019re going back to nothing’ … that\u2019s Donald Trump’s personality.”<\/p>\n

Scarammuci added that “we try to normalize him, sane-wash him, and put him into a bucket. ‘Oh, he\u2019s a Republican, he’ll want a Republican to succeed him or he\u2019ll want JD Vance or Marco Rubio.’ He doesn\u2019t want those guys to succeed him. Let’s say he has a successful remaining two years of his presidency, which seems unlikely, but let’s say he did. He wouldn\u2019t want those guys taking any credit for anything that happened in the administration. <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s an administration of one person and there\u2019s one spotlight on,” he said.<\/p>\n

We assume Trump wants to end the war, because we assume he wants the Republicans to win in November. But what if he doesn’t care about ending it any more than he cares about his party? It might even be in his interest to prolong it<\/em><\/em>, as it boils the GOP down to its pure maga essence, making it even more dependent on him. Indeed, victory would suggest his party doesn’t need him anymore. And that, according to Donald Trump, is impossible.<\/p>\n

During today’s made-for-TV cabinet meeting, the president claimed that he had the advantage in negotiations with Iran. “They thought they were gonna outwait me. You know, \u2018We\u2019ll outwait him. He\u2019s got the midterms,'” Trump said. “I don\u2019t care about the midterms.\u201d <\/p>\n

We all assume he’s lying. We had better hope he is. If Donald Trump really doesn’t care about losing the congressional elections, the last remaining partisan constraints have fallen away. <\/p>\n

Read more Alabama reporter calls it \u2018too late\u2019 for sane Republicans to save the GOP<\/a><\/p>\n

The war could go on indefinitely. <\/p>\n

An $80 bag of groceries could soon look cheap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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