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Miles Archer

(20,321 posts)
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:08 AM 17 hrs ago

Robert Reich: "Your activism is working."

This tipping point will bring Trump's reign crashing down — and it's close
Robert Reich
September 29, 2025 8:12AM ET

https://www.rawstory.com/2674049316/

Friends, his neofascism and his dementia are both in plain sight.

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Speaker Mike Johnson is struggling to hold House Republicans together, facing rebellion on issues such as the release of files relating to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Democrats are refusing to go along with Republicans to fund the government beyond Tuesday unless Republicans agree to extending Affordable Care Act subsidies — now set to expire at the end of the year and cause 24 million people to lose coverage or pay skyrocketing premiums.

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Friends, I can’t tell you exactly when the tipping point will occur — when elected Republicans will rebel against him, or when his dementia becomes so apparent he’s forced to resign, or when so much of the nation rises up against his dictatorship that he’s impeached and convicted of high crimes — but we’re getting closer.

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Your activism is working.

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Robert Reich: "Your activism is working." (Original Post) Miles Archer 17 hrs ago OP
As the masses ignore, protest, work around the policies bucolic_frolic 17 hrs ago #1

bucolic_frolic

(52,518 posts)
1. As the masses ignore, protest, work around the policies
Mon Sep 29, 2025, 09:13 AM
17 hrs ago

Corporations are taking a hit from consumer demand, the economy is weakening.

His problem is he then must enact more severe measures which become even more unpopular.

The medicine we are being fed seems weak, contrived, and ludicrous.

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