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| | WHAT WE'RE WATCHING | | π CIA Director to visit both Egypt and Qatar for ceasefire talks. CIA Director William Burns will be engaging in discussions with the Qatari P.M. and the director of Israel's Mossad to negotiate the release of the remaining hostages and bring an end to the war. U.S. and Israeli officials expressed more optimism about these talks than the previous round. | π The RNC drafted a new Trump-approved platform. A list of 20 policy priorities was adopted by the Republican National Committee, most of which mirror Donald Trump's agenda. While some of the measures reflect typical Trumpian toughness, it also reflects how the party has moderated on social issues like same-sex marriage and abortion. | π A majority of Americans approve of Trump's first term. A new poll found that 51 percent of Americans approve of Donald Trump's job performance as president compared to just 41 percent approving of President Biden's first term. Trump was also described by 60 percent of respondents as someone "who can get things done," compared to 44 percent for Biden. | π Republican party identification is on the rise. New data from the National Public Opinion Reference Survey found that Republicans now have an advantage in party affiliation over Democrats, gaining three percent from last year. Surprisingly, the survey found that GOP affiliation was more common even among 18-to-29-year-old voters than Democratic affiliation. |
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| | WHAT WE'RE HEARING | Several influential members of the Congressional Black Caucus are backing President Biden to remain the party's nominee for president. Biden staffers leaked documents revealing the extraordinary steps they take to ensure the president has the simplest instructions to follow as possible during campaign stops. Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman is urging Jews in France to leave the country amid the far-left gaining more power in Parliament.
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| | IN THE LOOP | Hurricane Beryl has already knocked out power to around three million homes in Texas. Boeing agreed to plead guilty to criminal fraud relating to two deadly crashes. The NATO summit kicks off today in Washington D.C., led by President Biden. Donald Trump is expected to name his running mate by next Monday. Learn the ways progressives are destroying California, from homelessness to schools. (Member-only) The most clicked link in our last newsletter was The New Republic's cover image of President Trump resembling Adolf Hitler.
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| | PRIMARY ARTICLE CATEGORY | Trump's masterful shift to the center | | Trump attacked Project 2025, an ideological and political framework for the next Republican president He has a long history of bucking normal conservative trends His success comes from his refusal to be boxed in by ideology
| The story | On Friday, the former president bashed the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 which lays out an ambitious plan for the next GOP president. The policy agenda is extraordinarily extensive, nearly 1,000 pages in length with 400 contributing authors, covering every topic from the administrative state to immigration to trade. | Because there is so much material with input from hundreds of individuals, certain policy prescriptions go further than others, such as recommendations to ban the abortion pill and outlaw pornography. With so much content available, Trump's opponents can easily find policy outliers and claim he supports a fringe agenda. | Trump distanced himself from the policy plan, saying, "I know nothing about Project 2025. I have no idea who is behind it. I disagree with some of the things they're saying and some of the things they're saying are absolutely ridiculous and abysmal. Anything they do, I wish them luck, but I have nothing to do with them." | This visceral snub of what had been heralded as the conservative movement's golden plan illustrates, in many ways, Donald Trump's true nature and why he transcends American norms. For decades, the conservative movement relied heavily on ideology and five-point-plans to make promises to Americans about goals they could realistically never achieve. | Five-point-plans are not inherently wrong, nor is having ideological boundaries to which a politician can restrain himself, but Donald Trump is not ideological. Trump is a conservative in that his political instinct is to protect and lift up normal Americans without making reference to some manifesto. | Oftentimes, many of Trump's more ideological supporters attempt to mold him into something he is not. Depending on one's outlook, he is either a champion of economic libertarianism, national conservatism, religious conservatism, or even the classic American tradition. Donald Trump does not fully embody any one these things, yet, at times, exemplifies all of them. | For this reason, there is often a disconnect between the president's staunch ideological supporters and his actual political objectives — and that's why he has succeeded. | The politics | Early on in Donald Trump's presidency, his political opponents noticed that he had "no ideology," which spooked them. Republicans made themselves easy targets for criticism and mockery when their political agenda could be abbreviated in catchphrases and bumper sticker slogans — "Freedom!" "Small government!" — even when helpful political solutions pushed these boundaries. | For instance, the national debt exploded during the Trump administration, and so did the federal bureaucracy. His "Drain the Swamp" plan did not fully materialize, apart from a few meaningful firings of high-profile officials like the FBI's Jim Comey. | Democrats and Trump-critical Republicans accurately point out that Donald Trump failed to deliver on this campaign promise. | Because the former president was non-ideological, every flavor of Republican could find something to agree with him on during his administration. However, because the real world is complex and doesn't always fit into a concise political vision, Trump has the ability to satisfy conservatives who often find themselves in sharp disagreement with one another. | Although the plan was executed under President Biden, Donald Trump initially wanted to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan under his watch. This plan satisfied the wing of the GOP that is skeptical of foreign wars, though, at the same time, Trump has sounded much more hawkish on Ukraine than the isolationist wing of the party would care for. | Because real life is messy, Trump realizes that different regional conflicts require different U.S. responses. The right responses do not always fall neatly into an ideological blueprint. | Beyond the headlines | A majority of Americans support a mass deportation plan to reverse the effects of the Biden administration's admission of millions of illegal migrants into the country. For this reason, Trump has made tackling immigration a major part of his campaign platform. During his debate with President Biden, he used every opportunity to turn the conversation back to the border crisis. | Much of the media is decrying Trump's aim to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 to mass deport migrants from the country as "big government," proving a supposed hypocrisy of Trump and the GOP. But this is not the case. | While some Republicans would tiptoe around using federal power, Trump insists on a muscular approach for a crisis of this magnitude. Donald Trump does not play by orthodox conservative rules; he simply responds to the American people by using the power at his disposal. | Even on an issue like abortion, which has always been a contentious issue among Republicans, Trump insists on taking a hands-off approach in the potential second term. Appointing the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe v Wade earned him enough credit to last a lifetime; now, he can wipe his hands clean and pass the issue to the states. | More ideologically rigid Republican presidential candidates would be open to adopting further restrictions, Trump is now pragmatically taking the "small government" approach to the issue, which will also help to sway Biden-skeptical independent voters to his side. | Why it matters | His opponents will scoff that his ideological pragmatism exemplifies his vapidness as a politician, but it is ultimately what makes him, at the end of the day, a populist. Because the average American does not fall neatly down ideological lines, neither does he. As he views it, his politics is based on common sense rather than striving to achieve lofty, abstract ideals. | In a strange way, though the left characterizes Trump as a radical, far-right figure, those accusations are likely just projecting his supporters' ideology onto him. And hailing from Queens, he speaks with the characteristic hyperbole and crude mannerisms of a New Yorker. His own unfettered rhetoric and loudest supporters often do not represent the realities of what he accomplished as president. | In many ways, Trump promotes policies that were more or less just Democrat policies from the past: being moderate on social issues, promoting American manufacturing, and implementing tariffs — many of which President Biden has kept in place or expanded. | This disconnect between the ideologues in his base and his actual political desires is the main reason Trump is so popular with normal, blue-collar Americans. He is not interested in political philosophy or the intricacies of economic theory; he is focused on governing as a pragmatist, more or less, for the common good. |
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| | Paid members can join the discussion | | OUR QUESTION TO YOU | π Do you think Trump has "no ideology"?Poll results will be in tomorrow's newsletter. | | | POLL RESULTS FROM YESTERDAY | Should Israel de-escalate or wipe out Hezbollah? | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ π» De-escalate (36) | π©π©π©π©π©π© πΊ Wipe out Hezbollah (838) | ⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️⬜️ π€ Other (30) | π» De-escalate: "People do not want wars, only the spoiled rich idiots want death and destruction." — D.M. π» De-escalate: "For the time being, they need to focus on Hamas." — Angeli πΊ Wipe out Hezbollah: "Any terrorist organization should be wiped out." — Simon πΊ Wipe out Hezbollah: "This would not even be a question if any other country was under constant bombardment, only Israel is expected to submit to being murdered. The hatred the world has for Jews is unlimited." — Anonymous π€ Other: "We don't have enough information to even have an opinion. Israel can make that decision based on the facts pertaining to the safety of their citizens." — R.V. | | 904 votes |
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| Today's newsletter was written by Brandon Goldman and Ari David. | |
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