President Donald Trump and his Republican caucus have revealed that they are in a "far darker" political place than they currently admit publicly as the current budget fight continues to fracture the base, according to one political strategist.
Simon Rosenberg, a veteran Democratic strategist, argued in a new Substack essay that it appears Republicans will be unable to pass a budget again anytime soon. Doing so would force Republicans to validate many of the president's policies that have become unpopular with voters, such as his immigration raids, trade wars, and management of the economy, Rosenberg argued.
"As a political strategist, I think Trump and Republicans are in a far darker political place than the current discourse currently reflects," Rosenberg wrote. "In this coming budget fight and into the elections next year they are going to be forced to defend the worst government in our history, one that is doing, clear, material, intentional harm to the country; trampling our rights and liberties and our Constitutional order; destroying our global reputation and making us all far less safe; a government that is wildly unpopular and led by a sundowning, imperious madman who was Jeffrey Epstein’s closest friend and party buddy."
Even if Republicans are able to skate through without passing a budget, Rosenberg wrote that they may never "escape from what they've done."
"They have no way to escape from what they’ve done, the harm they have caused," Rosenberg wrote. "No ads can make all this go away. Will they start to walk away from it all: the health care cuts, the tariffs, the ICE expansion, and him, to attempt to mitigate the damage? Will little cracks become big cracks? Or will they stay the course out of fear and cowardice?"
That’s what this budget fight is really all about it, and we are clearly in the early, early days," he added.
