What is wrong with the high cost of living, chaos, corruption, and cruelty? This is the kind of question I never had to ask in my lifetime, or for that matter, found so many who do not care enough about the answers, and out of fear or loyalty remain silent.. The challenge for the political opposition is to remind them of why those things are bad and how they hurt even the ones Trump says he loves.
Let me add one more C to the alliterated attack list: Constitutional crisis: The fruits of his power grab are high living costs, chaos, corruption, and cruelty. Trump has distorted, exceeded, worked around, and abused the use of the powers granted him in the Constitution whenever he can. The rule of law is mocked to its demise. Trump's modus when constrained by a law he does not like is to ignore it, break it, test it, and hope that, in six months, a friendly judge does not tell him no.
Incompetence and no compassion are other descriptive words we rarely applied to past presidents, but the Iran Hormuz screw-up is due to Trump's incompetence to anticipate fallout and his lack of compassion about affordability concerns (even mocking the word), and warehousing migrants in gulags without access to legal help is another.
So what is wrong with the high cost of living? It is not fair to those struggling to balance their personal budgets now, while he and his cronies are living their gilded lives.
So what is wrong with the chaos? Planning for survival on one day, whether you are in business or struggling with your budget, or worried about personal or national safety, may be obsolete the next. Trust in the leader's judgment or motivation, or trust in his good word, is gone.
So what's wrong with corruption? Problem with getting rich on foreign investments: he who pays the fiddler calls the tune, if not now, sooner or later. The Emoluments Clause in the Constitution is constantly broken by Trump, who is enriching himself and his family on real estate and crypto schemes with investments from foreign governments. Aside from the moral and legal questions, the problem with corruption is that what motivates the great leader's decisions may benefit him and his family's wealth and power, but may harm those he governs who are not among the beneficiaries of his public policies.
So what is wrong with cruelty, and is the use and threat of it quite OK? The fear of its use keeps the disloyal in line and deters others from doing what is not in their own interests. Using the DOJ to launch investigations on political enemies is a cruel misuse of power and true treatment of migrants in hopes all of one race will self-deport, whether or not they otherwise had any civil rights.
So what about a Constitutional crisis? Trump has been able to strike fear and demand loyalty to him by ignoring the rule of law and the Constitutional constraints because of a cowed Congress, a staff and cabinet of yes men, and his core MAGA base. The only constraints so far are a slow-acting judiciary and some justices who comply with his anti-democracy instincts. He thinks he can ignore the poll because 1) he has gotten away with acting like a dictator and thinking he is one, 2) the ability to use force, ICE, and seizure of voting rolls and election machinery to avoid an election loss at the November midterms and beyond. For that reason, a a 60% disapproval of his policies is of no concern. In any case, to him, this democracy is of, by , and for Trump and those who keep him in power. If you commit a crime on his behalf, he'll just pardon you.
https://mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/messaging-again-democrats-may-be-onto.html
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