Donald Trump’s current flip-flopping on issues after making promises on the campaign trail could blow up in his face with his supporters not longer after he takes the oath of office.
That is the opinion of an analyst for the New Republic who asserted that both the president-elect and his MAGA are all headed for a political brick wall once he tries to govern after assuming office.
According to Robert McCoy, ” Trump was whoever they [his supporters] wanted him to be—a choose-your-own-candidate. Voters projected their wishes onto his candidacy, regardless of his stated policy program,” adding, ” His relentless lying, flip-flopping, and vagueness about his plans made it difficult to pin him down, thereby attracting voters from both sides of certain issues. ”
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That will not hold, he suggested.
“The chimerical allure that helped propel Trump to the White House has an expiration date. He sold myriad, and often conflicting, fantasies to voters. In three weeks’ time, he’ll face reality. And many Trump voters will undoubtedly start to realize that he is not at all the person they thought they were voting for,” he wrote before adding, “Once he enters the realm of concrete policy, Trump will very likely face some degree of backlash.”
“This happens with any new administration; according to the well-demonstrated theory of thermostatic politics, public opinion tends to move in the opposite direction of policy,” he wrote. “But if Trump grossly overestimates his electoral mandate and tries to implement his most extreme ideas, the backlash could be historically fierce.”
Pointing out “Trump’s hyperbolic promises as a candidate could also undermine his presidency,” McCoy suggested, “Trump has proven, in business and politics, that in fact he can con people for a very long time. But, come 2025, when he’s confronted with the reality of governing—and, one can hope, a reinvigorated opposition—Trump may finally be exposed to his newfound supporters as the huckster we’ve long known him to be.”
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