Robert Reich: We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate but cannot. [View all]

Robert Reich
May 7, 2026 11:41AM ET

Friends,

We are witnessing what happens to a person who is consumed with the need to dominate but cannot.

Iran is unlikely to give in. It can withstand the economic pressure of a blockade better than Trump can withstand the political pressure that comes with rising gas prices (now nearly $4.50 a gallon, on average), soon followed by rising food prices.

His looming failure in Iran is not just a serious geopolitical defeat for the United States; it’s a personal crisis for Trump.

Those rising prices coupled with an increasingly unpopular war have increased the likelihood that Democrats will take back control of the House and even possibly the Senate in the upcoming midterms.

Here again, not just a political defeat for the Republican Party but a personal crisis for Trump.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-is-being-ruined-by-a-personal-crisis-and-it-s-setting-off-explosions/