Stalin
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Apr 4, 2008
- Messages
- 4,381
if the frump party wins the midterms, you know it will be fixed...
Primary elections Saturday and Tuesday confirmed the dominance of Donald Trump over the Republican Party, even as opinion polls show that the US president and his policies are increasingly despised by the American people.
Trump’s approval rating overall fell to 35 percent in some polls, and below 30 percent on the economy and the war in Iran, even as his chosen candidates won Republican primary contests with ease.
The two processes are interrelated, as Trump seeks to eliminate any check on his actions from within the Republican Party, cementing its transformation into an instrument of authoritarian, personalist rule, as a necessary stage in his preparations for a presidential dictatorship in the United States.
Perhaps the most politically revealing event of Tuesday was Trump’s announcement that he was endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against incumbent senator John Cornyn in the state’s Republican primary set for next Tuesday. Cornyn is the epitome of the right-wing Republican establishment, a four-term senator who was long a part of the Senate Republican leadership.
Paxton, by contrast, was impeached by his own party for corruption, although the state Senate failed to convict him. He is a fascist opponent of democratic rights, and has spearheaded the state’s viciously punitive attacks on abortion providers and women seeking abortions. Paxton played a central role in the efforts of Republican state attorneys general to challenge the outcome of the 2020 elections, although the Supreme Court voted by 9-0 against his claim that Texas should have jurisdiction to interfere in the elections of battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Trump did not endorse a candidate in the first round of the Texas Republican primary, then declared that he would make an endorsement for the runoff, and that the unendorsed candidate should then immediately withdraw. Both Cornyn and Paxton continued to compete for his favor, however, and Trump put off a final announcement until the week before the May 26 runoff.
In a Truth Social post, Trump called Paxton “someone who has always been extremely loyal to me and our AMAZING MAGA MOVEMENT.” He said Cornyn was “very late in backing” him in his 2024 run for president.
Trump’s fascist former White House adviser Steve Bannon called the endorsement of Paxton a “miracle,” while the Wall Street Journal published an editorial bemoaning the decision and arguing that Trump had endangered the grip of the Republican Party on the Texas Senate seat in the face of a well-funded Democratic opponent, James Talarico, in order to reward a political crony.
comrade stalin
moscow
Primary elections Saturday and Tuesday confirmed the dominance of Donald Trump over the Republican Party, even as opinion polls show that the US president and his policies are increasingly despised by the American people.
Trump’s approval rating overall fell to 35 percent in some polls, and below 30 percent on the economy and the war in Iran, even as his chosen candidates won Republican primary contests with ease.
The two processes are interrelated, as Trump seeks to eliminate any check on his actions from within the Republican Party, cementing its transformation into an instrument of authoritarian, personalist rule, as a necessary stage in his preparations for a presidential dictatorship in the United States.
Perhaps the most politically revealing event of Tuesday was Trump’s announcement that he was endorsing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against incumbent senator John Cornyn in the state’s Republican primary set for next Tuesday. Cornyn is the epitome of the right-wing Republican establishment, a four-term senator who was long a part of the Senate Republican leadership.
Paxton, by contrast, was impeached by his own party for corruption, although the state Senate failed to convict him. He is a fascist opponent of democratic rights, and has spearheaded the state’s viciously punitive attacks on abortion providers and women seeking abortions. Paxton played a central role in the efforts of Republican state attorneys general to challenge the outcome of the 2020 elections, although the Supreme Court voted by 9-0 against his claim that Texas should have jurisdiction to interfere in the elections of battleground states like Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Trump did not endorse a candidate in the first round of the Texas Republican primary, then declared that he would make an endorsement for the runoff, and that the unendorsed candidate should then immediately withdraw. Both Cornyn and Paxton continued to compete for his favor, however, and Trump put off a final announcement until the week before the May 26 runoff.
In a Truth Social post, Trump called Paxton “someone who has always been extremely loyal to me and our AMAZING MAGA MOVEMENT.” He said Cornyn was “very late in backing” him in his 2024 run for president.
Trump’s fascist former White House adviser Steve Bannon called the endorsement of Paxton a “miracle,” while the Wall Street Journal published an editorial bemoaning the decision and arguing that Trump had endangered the grip of the Republican Party on the Texas Senate seat in the face of a well-funded Democratic opponent, James Talarico, in order to reward a political crony.
Trump tightens grip on Republican Party as his poll numbers plunge
While his hand-picked candidates defeated several Republican incumbents, both Trump and his policies are deeply unpopular.
www.wsws.org
comrade stalin
moscow
