Is Trump a good president?

[kurai]

fresh problems this week in the "pulpit power & public relations" and "policy development, negotiation and coordination" categories

- after campaigning and rallying for luther strange, his preferred candidate fails to win the alabama republican senate primary. this is significant for two reasons: now no member of the legislature needs to fear reprisal from trump as sitting president, as he is unable to provide winning support even in a state that he won 62-34; if elected, moore is supposed to provide a thoroughly obstructionist viewpoint that has already declared itself in opposition to the senate majority leader (who also no longer has the ability to threaten campaign funding reprisal), which harms the rest of the president's legislative agenda. (he also deleted his tweets in support of the losing candidate.)

- health care reform fails again. trump appears to believe that removing the filibuster in the senate is the only possible deal to be made.

[Magmar]

fresh problems this week in the "pulpit power & public relations" and "policy development, negotiation and coordination" categories

- after campaigning and rallying for luther strange, his preferred candidate fails to win the alabama republican senate primary. this is significant for two reasons: now no member of the legislature needs to fear reprisal from trump as sitting president, as he is unable to provide winning support even in a state that he won 62-34; if elected, moore is supposed to provide a thoroughly obstructionist viewpoint that has already declared itself in opposition to the senate majority leader (who also no longer has the ability to threaten campaign funding reprisal), which harms the rest of the president's legislative agenda. (he also deleted his tweets in support of the losing candidate.)

- health care reform fails again. trump appears to believe that removing the filibuster in the senate is the only possible deal to be made.

I do not get political with people I don't know--sorry TPM--but FWIW, I was in Alabama last week. There were illuminated billboards all over Birmingham like at standing level saying "Support (whoever it was), Donald Trump Endorses Him!" Outside of the deep South, I don't think those billboards would have survived.