In response to an emergency petition to stop the two-year-old from being sent abroad, a Trump-appointed judge said he had a “strong suspicion that the government just deported a US citizen with no meaningful process.” (The Trump administration has claimed the kids were put on the deportation flights at their mothers’ request, which attorneys dispute.) A CNN poll found that 59% of the public says that “Trump’s policies have worsened economic conditions in the country,” with just “12% saying his agenda has helped to bring prices down.” Trump is now underwater on his handling of everything from immigration and border security (51% disapprove) to inflation and cost of living (60% disapprove), per an NBC News poll; it’s not pretty on foreign affairs (55% disapprove) or civil rights (53% disapprove), per a UMass poll. As Anne Applebaum, a journalist and expert on authoritarianism, put it to NPR last year: “What the autocrats—whether they’re in American politics or in Russian politics or in Chinese politics—what they want is for you to be disengaged.” Indeed, a checked out electorate is much easier to control than an active, engaged one.
Author: Molly Jong-Fast
Published at: 2025-04-30 22:03:49
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