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Miles Archer

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Wed Dec 31, 2025, 11:31 AM Dec 31

Rove thinks Trump's obsessive, unrelenting flood the zone bullshit may be working against him. LIAR! TAKE IT BACK! [View all]

(In a year-end Wall Street Journal opinion column published Dec. 30, Rove) said: “No American president has ever ruled the news cycle like Donald Trump. He’s omnipresent, completely dominating coverage, constantly in front of cameras and inundating us with round-the-clock Truth Social posts.

“His pace is unrelenting. He throws at reporters so much fluff—personal asides, fulminations about adversaries real and imagined, commentary on culture and self-congratulation—that the press and public often ignore important things."

Entering the year of the midterms, Rove, 75, argued that “there are signs that the public is tiring of his hyperbole and insatiable desire for retribution,” predicting that many Americans will increasingly hear only “the offensive or cruel things he says.”

He added: “He’s gone way too far by slapping his name on buildings (the Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts) and government programs (the Navy’s “Trump-class” battleship). He might receive a fawning reaction from his MAGA base, but the average American finds such narcissism off-putting."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-veteran-strategist-karl-rove-admits-people-are-tiring-of-donald-trump/
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Trump fatique its like chalk against the blackboard. Historic NY Dec 31 #1
Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake MustLoveBeagles Dec 31 #2
Exactly PatSeg Dec 31 #17
I agree 👍 MustLoveBeagles Dec 31 #18
True. Republicans have a tendency to overplay oasis Dec 31 #3
Special place in Hell for Karl Rove Attilatheblond Dec 31 #4
It would never work with real journalists Jarqui Dec 31 #5
Have to kind of agree with this commentary. And I think the evidence is backing up stopdiggin Dec 31 #6
I'd say the midterms will tell us everything we need to know about the road to 2028 Miles Archer Dec 31 #9
I take a longer view. (in that I'm pretty sure we WON'T be seeing the fullness of stopdiggin Dec 31 #13
Republicans have been timing it so the most damage WON'T happen before the midterms Miles Archer Dec 31 #16
exactly so. -(nt)- stopdiggin Dec 31 #21
The whole "Biden is to blame for Everything" is getting Ars Longa Dec 31 #15
I was tired of Trump in 2016 Johonny Dec 31 #7
the day of the escalator rampartd Dec 31 #11
I was tired of Trump in the '80s. Hugin Dec 31 #12
Fuck you Karl Rove. Botany Dec 31 #8
Relax....NO one listens to the Turd Blossom democratsruletheday Dec 31 #19
So Rove's approach was to "flood the zone with shit". Blumancru Dec 31 #10
Rove made Trump possible DemocracyForever Dec 31 #14
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that guy . . .. hatrack Dec 31 #20
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