Democrats court danger with new attack on Trump

Jim Geraghty of National Review Online cautions Democrats against employing a questionable strategy against President Donald Trump.

Mother Jones reports, “The Democratic Party has commissioned a taco truck to serve free lunch outside the Republican National Committee’s DC headquarters beginning at noon on Tuesday.” This is a stunt tying into the new acronym going around Washington, which stands for “Trump Always Chickens Out.”

Wait a minute, Democrats. If you think Trump is almost always wrong, don’t you like the fact that he often backs down from his initial stances? Would you prefer it if he always doubled down on a position you think is wrong? One of the few upsides of the president’s erratic decision-making is that he’ll announce a proposal for a 50 percent tariff on all goods from the European Union on a Friday, and, after one phone call from Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, he’ll announce on Sunday that he’s putting those tariffs off for another month and change.

There are times when Trump backs down, as he did regarding his sweeping and often high “liberation day” tariffs on every other country on earth, and it greatly improves the situation. If you keep mocking Trump for “chickening out,” he’s going to dig in his heels more.

I’m on the opposite side of the Democrats, at least when it comes to foreign policy and national security threats; I want Trump to follow through on his tough talk. I want Hamas to pay hell, I want that all that anger at Vladimir Putin that only seems to manifest on Truth Social every few weeks to turn into actual policy choices, and I really hope it isn’t true that the administration is willing to accept a deal with Iran that would allow limited low-level uranium enrichment on Iranian soil.

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