COMMON SENSE: Trump’s strategy has worked with Pelosi, and it only required a few days to manifest itself. By defending the Speaker against “The Squad,” the President put Pelosi in a spot she needed to abandon.
Knowing how unpopular The Squad is with the American people, Pelosi was nearly successful in marginalizing them, so much so that they called her a racist for her actions. By defending Pelosi against this attack, Trump put the Speaker at odds with her own party. To distance herself from Trump, she called him a racist from the floor of the House of Representatives, which is against the rules.
Although the media, blinded as they are, cannot see it, this was a huge victory for Trump and the American people. Specifically:
1. The visuals for the Democrats are terrible. This episode shows that they are incapable of governing.
2. It has driven the center of the Democratic Party further Left, which will hurt them in the 2020 elections.
3. Pelosi has demonstrated poor leadership by walking off of the floor of the House, which is the American people’s House not hers.
4. This has solidified The Squad’s de facto leadership of the Democratic Party, which was Trump’s goal in defending Pelosi in the first place.
Being called a racist again will not hurt Trump, but this episode will hurt the Democrats at the polls next year. We will see Pelosi’s petulance in ads by the thousands. All in all, this was well played by Trump.
—Jack Watts
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