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Trump Is Whipsawing His Base, Sending Contradictory Signals, byJohn Zmirak – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Donald-Trump-Shrugging. Flickr/Gage Skidmore

By John Zmirak, The Stream, July 11, 2025

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream and author or coauthor of 14 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. His newest book is No Second Amendment, No First.

 

Classical scholar and top-notch political analyst Victor Davis Hanson says it better than I can: President Donald Trump is providing first-rate leadership on many issues, and is off-the-charts superior to the GOP establishment that colluded with Democrats to destroy him. But he’s also all over the map, showing signs of caving to pressure from entrenched financial interests and disappointing his most devoted supporters on emotionally resonant issues.

This shouldn’t be surprising. George Washington frustrated patriots, Abraham Lincoln disappointed abolitionists, and Ronald Reagan shocked anti-Communists. What you campaign on will never translate perfectly into the messy, horse-trading business of actually governing a country. You have to pick and choose, decide which hills to fight on and which to concede to the enemy. …

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