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7/31/2026, 7:00:00 PM
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Confidence in Donald Trump has fallen to historic lows.
The latest wave of public polling shows that large majorities of Americans now believe Trump’s economic policies have made the country worse off, his handling of the war with Iran has harmed U.S. interests and his administration has lost sight of the problems ordinary families confront every day.
The magnitude of the findings would be enough to raise eyebrows — majorities of U.S. adults say that Trump isn’t paying enough attention to the country’s most important problems.
But even more damning is the consistency of the numbers across a wide range of issues, demographics and polling entities.
Result after result not only points to widespread dissatisfaction with Trump’s wasteful spending on vanity projects, needless antagonism toward longtime U.S. allies and the poorly planned and expanding military conflict in Iran but also with his disregard for the importance of issues such as economic uncertainty and the rising cost of everything from groceries and gasoline to housing and consumer goods.
Perhaps most striking is that this unease is no longer confined to Democrats or independents.
Even within Republican ranks, enthusiasm has noticeably cooled.
Some of the president’s strongest supporters have begun expressing concerns about both the direction of the country and the limits of executive power.
That development deserves attention.
Several Republican lawmakers have broken publicly with the administration over the conflict in Iran, arguing that the Constitution gives Congress — not the president alone — the authority to determine whether the nation enters prolonged military hostilities.
Their disagreement is not merely political; it is constitutional.
Lawmakers such as Thomas Massie, Warren Davidson, Tom Barrett, Brian Fitzpatrick, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul have, in different ways, argued that Congress must reclaim its role in decisions of war and peace.
Former high-profile Trump supporters including Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Alex Jones have also spoken out against Trump’s leadership and judgment; Greene and Jones have called for Trump to be removed from office.
Their willingness to speak out demonstrates that concern over unchecked executive authority and Trump’s disregard for the issues that matter most to the American people is not limited to one ideological camp.
Yet these voices remain exceptions within a Republican Party leadership that has, by and large, continued to rally behind Trump.
At a moment when many Americans see rising prices, geopolitical and economic instability and mounting constitutional questions, congressional Republicans have shown little appetite for meaningful oversight.
Instead, they have too often chosen loyalty to GOP donors and Trump family business interests over loyalty to the American people.
That is precisely why the coming midterm elections carry such profound importance.
The framers of the Constitution anticipated moments when political power might become too concentrated.
Their answer was not blind faith in individual leaders but a system of checks and balances.
The Constitution demands that Congress serve as an independent branch capable of restraining executive overreach, regardless of which party controls the White House.
When that oversight disappears, it puts the Constitution and the nation at risk.
We believe that the American people have the wisdom, courage and conviction to do what Republican leaders in Congress refuse to do: recognize that no president and no political party should operate without effective checks and balances and give congressional majorities to Democrats.
We know that many voters remain deeply committed to conservative principles and have spent decades supporting Republican candidates.
Those convictions need not change.
Americans can continue to believe in limited government, fiscal responsibility and a strong national defense while recognizing that Trump and the GOP leadership in Congress are failing to deliver on those ideals or fulfill their obligations under the Constitution.
The MAGA Republicans are radicals, without any actual ideology, so much as an unfocused anger at the state of the world and a desire to tear down everything to express their anger.
Their leader has channeled that incoherent rage for his own purposes and delivered a level of corruption never before seen in American history.
Be that as it may, and appalling as it is, history offers a stark lesson and a starker warning about the response to extremists in power: It seldom is overcome by stalwart moderates fighting for common sense.
Instead, extremism is usually met with opposite extremism.
This is the risk we see today, where the Democrats too have groups of extremists agitating for approaches that might be just as damaging to the nation as the staggering damage MAGA and Trump have wrought.
If counterextremism is allowed to thrive, then our fate is sealed; a generation will be whipsawed between combating poles more focused on revenge than progress.
The nation and its people and the woes that beset us will not be healed if that happens.
It’s easy to throw about labels like “socialism” or “fascism” to turn the national situation into a broad political cartoon.
The better approach is to embrace those leaders and would-be leaders who focus on actual policies that address the general good without crushing the prospects for specific segments of American life.
We can solve income inequality without radically restructuring our economics: A prudent change to tax policy and education would be a start.
We can save the environment and still see business thrive.
We can provide healthcare for the nation and still have a healthy budget.
We can solve the housing crisis by first acknowledging that it exists and then working together to solve it.
Revising zoning rules and providing beneficial rates for first-time homebuyers would be a start.
Anyone who says that we cannot craft a mutually beneficial solution to society’s problems is lying.
They have ulterior motives.
Government exists to solve the problems afflicting society that the free market alone can’t fix.
But we’ve allowed government to mutate into a machine whose purpose is to benefit political friends and afflict political rivals rather than work toward the common good.
The best strategic response to extremism is moderation and thoughtful policy.
This will move the country forward.
This is not ultimately about partisan victory.
It is about preserving the guardrails that will sustain American democracy for the next 250 years.
A Congress willing to ask hard questions, investigate executive actions and exercise independent judgment strengthens the presidency, and our nation, by ensuring that policy decisions are focused on the issues that are most important to the American people and receive the scrutiny they deserve.
America has always been strongest when its citizens have placed the country ahead of political tribes.
The challenges facing the nation — economic uncertainty, international conflict, constitutional tensions and declining public trust — cannot be solved through deeper division or greater partisan resentment.
They require Americans to remember that, before we are Republicans, Democrats or independents, we are fellow citizens with a shared stake in the nation’s future.
The coming election offers an opportunity to restore one of the Constitution’s most fundamental principles: that no leader is above accountability, no branch of government should exercise unchecked power and no one elected to serve the public should ignore the needs of the public.
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