{"id":664,"date":"2026-05-29T09:07:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=664"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:07:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:07:40","slug":"weak-strongman-trump-is-strangling-his-feeble-party-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=664","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Weak strongman&#8217; Trump is strangling his feeble party: analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A political analyst argued on Thursday that President Donald Trump is acting like a strongman dictator, but in so doing he is strangling his own failing Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=662\">Trump doesn\u2019t want the GOP to win in November \u2014 and his actions prove it<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you looked just at the percentages of last night\u2019s Senate runoff in Starr County, you would say Trump is still dominating,\u201d wrote MS NOW\u2019s Chris Hayes on Thursday. \u201cHis candidate beat Cornyn there by nearly 50 points. But what\u2019s that percentage based on? How many Republicans actually voted in that runoff? The answer: virtually none.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hayes continued, \u201cOnly 90 votes were cast out of more than 36,000 registered voters in the county, according to the Texas secretary of state\u2019s office. In that same county, in a single Democratic primary for a local judge back in March, more than 13,000 Democrats turned out to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For these reasons, Hayes observed, Democrats are optimistic both about flipping the Texas Senate seat currently held by Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) but currently contested by Trump-picked Republican nominee Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Democratic nominee James Talarico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at a map of Senate races being held this November, Democrats need to hold all their seats and flip four Republican-held seats to take the chamber,\u201d Hayes explained. \u201cThat feat looked nearly impossible before Trump endorsed Paxton, the atrociously fraught candidate Democrats hoped they would get. It\u2019s just clearer every day that Trump\u2019s strategy for power has a tighter and tighter hold on fewer and fewer people. You see it in the polls where the president\u2019s approval has plunged to new lows, as Democrats widen their lead on the generic congressional ballot. You see it in the increasing sycophancy of the Republicans who have so far survived Trump\u2019s whims, as demonstrated by the coterie of kiss-ups who dominated Wednesday\u2019s Cabinet meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=661\">New study reveals the massive con on white voters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hayes predicted that trend will culminate in the Republican Party alienating everyone except the most sycophantic elements of Trump\u2019s base.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is the defining political dynamic right now in the country, and one that really can only be broken through mass mobilization and democratic election, which is why threats to upend democracy will only grow more intense as Trump\u2019s faction of MAGA diehards keeps shrinking,\u201d Hayes argued.<\/p>\n<p>Political experts share Hayes\u2019 view that, at the very least, Paxton is not going to be as strong a nominee against Talarico as Cornyn would have been.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Paxton has a litany of ethical lapses for Democrats to exploit \u2014 from allegations of bribery and misuse of his office to marital infidelity, which led his wife to divorce him on \u2018biblical grounds,\u2019\u201d Jessica Taylor, Senate and governors editor for the Cook Political Report, wrote. \u201cGiven the national environment, this is a race that certainly may have become competitive even if Cornyn had won, but Paxton\u2019s flaws warrant an immediate move to the Lean column.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=659\">Donald Trump: The complete anatomy of a billionaire born loser<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A political analyst argued on Thursday that President Donald Trump is acting like a strongman dictator, but in so doing he is strangling his own failing Republican Party.\u201cIf you looked just at the percentages of last night\u2019s Senate runoff in Starr County, you would say Trump is still dominating,\u201d wr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Weak strongman&#039; 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