'A broad-based crash': Here's why Americans are dumping Trump's agenda — in droves

SALON Magazine reports multiple sources are watching President Donald Trump’s agenda implode under the weight of Americans’ disapproval.

“Trump’s approval among the American people across almost every issue, most notably the economy and tariffs and inflation, his gutting of the federal government and defiance of the Constitution and the rule of law, is rapidly falling to levels not seen for an American president in the last 80 years,” reports Senior Writer Chauncey DeVega.

DeVega refers to a recent essay at The Hill, in which Democratic Party pollster Mark Mellman says, “Trump is suffering a broad-based crash. Never before has a president presented so broad an agenda, so thoroughly rejected by the public. If you’re a Republican who won by less than 10 points, you are either frightened or foolish.”

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DeVega writes plummeting popularity can be expected with Trump’s attack on migrants, democratic institutions and the rule of law, “driven by arrogance, cruelty and hostility toward anyone who does not believe in a white nationalist future.” It is a vision abetted by Republicans in the House and Senate who “forsake their obligations to advise and consent” and abandon the Constitutional separation of powers and bow down to their ruler.”

The mounting opposition comes of despots who are “demanding that his staff keep bringing him more executive orders every day because he finds handing down diktats from on high so gratifying.”

In the coming months, DeVega predicts Trump to cleave closely to the hard-right Christian coalition, his most diehard supporters and continue to blend church and state with fascist ambitions and messianic leadership on his “path from right-wing populism to authoritarianism and fascism.”

But this, of course, can be stopped, he adds.

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There will eventually be “protests in the streets as Trump continues to bare his authoritarian fangs,” and citizens “need to prepare for more forceful attacks on their rights, namely on democracy, and they need to defend their principles via electoral decisions, peaceful protests, and support for universities and independent media sources.”

Protest is inevitable, he says, because Trump “will defy a Supreme Court order or precipitate another constitutional crisis, because that’s just how his personality is bent.”

“The fact that Trump wants unlimited power does not mean he will win. This is not a sprint, but Trump would like it to be. It depends on the American people to pause and delay these anti-democratic attempts.”

Read the full Salon article here.