'Tis almost like no one bothered reading the article.
... without once bothering to read the article where Rick Wilson lays all this at the feet of the Trump & Republicans:
When your entire brand is "I alone can fix it" and things feel more broken, it becomes very easy for voters to decide that you, in fact, cannot.
The GOP is already on demographic thin ice. Trump's affordability fiasco is the kind of slow-burning anger that melts what remains of their suburban support among moderates and independents, many of whom held their nose in 2024 solely because Trump promised to reduce grocery and gas prices. It accelerates the erosion with younger voters who have now lived through two Trump eras and a housing market that looks like a hostage situation.
They signed up for the myth of the businessman president. They got the guy who bankrupted casinos and decided the solution for a hurting country was to blow up the economy for a jacked-up economic theory from the 17th century, build a ballroom, and hide the books.
None of the culture war crap, the performative yelping about the Deep State, the liberal media, or whatever else tickles MAGA Twitter's happy place will work when America is locked in a deep recession caused by their Golden God.
In 2026, Republicans will discover the oldest rule in politics and business: eventually, the mark realizes he has been conned. And when that happens, it is not just the con man who pays the price. It is everyone foolish enough to stand next to him when the lights come up, and the check arrives.
Trump is too old to pay that bill ... and doesn't pay his bills in any case.
But the MAGA GOP sure as hell will. That sound they hear in the distance is a mob, hungry and furious, approaching their palace.
It is not about pulling defeat from the jaws of victory.
It is not about if Democrats are (or are not) up to the job.
That is not what Rick Wilson was saying in the article I posted.
My belief is Obama was setting general policy.
I agree, that is what you believe.
He clearly wasn't in charge of day to day operations.
I agree, it is clear to you.
We don't know who was in charge of day to day operations. We do know who wasn't
"We" meaning you, and people who think like you.