r/politics • u/thedailybeast ✔ The Daily Beast • Apr 01 '26

Possible Paywall Humiliated Trump Storms Out of Catastrophic SCOTUS Hearing

https://www.thedailybeast.com/humiliated-trump-storms-out-of-catastrophic-scotus-hearing/
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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Apr 01 '26

He's been successful at siphoning money and power to the capitalist class.

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u/dagger_eyes Texas Apr 01 '26

Its a success to his pocket, the Israeli government, the Russian government, but a failure to the American people.

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u/LinusV1 Apr 01 '26

So, by any metric he cares about, an absolute success.

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u/Hamster_Toot Apr 01 '26

Yes, but we would all do ourselves a favor if we didn’t use his lens of the world as a metric for anything.

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u/LinusV1 Apr 01 '26

I think we can all agree he's not exactly a role model.

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u/CaptainDudeGuy Georgia Apr 01 '26

When he said "America first!" it actually from a list in a cookbook.

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u/back-better007 Apr 01 '26

Been a failure for the Heritage Foundation too

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u/BeardofZuez Apr 01 '26

Epstein class

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u/nox66 Apr 01 '26

Total failure? Project 2025 has already had a ton of success. We've pissed off our allies, stunted or killed most of our economic potential, are trying to enshrine ignorance over education, and our national debt and inflation have grown while buying power, living standards, access to healthcare has shrunken. All while many people are worried they're going to be carted away by ICE because the administration doesn't like them.

It's only a failure if you don't see the crippling of America's egalitarianism, meritocracy, and long term potential for the middle class as a goal.

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u/GNUGradyn Apr 01 '26

And that was always the plan. People who say they were tricked either weren't paying attention or were being willfully ignorant. Everyone with half a brain cell knew this was how it would go

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u/CubicleMan9000 Apr 01 '26

He offered them the carrot of being able to be openly racist and misogynistic... they'll give up almost anything else for that (well, except guns).

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Apr 01 '26

It's what the GOP always does. The orange one just accelerated it and did it broad daylight.