Opinion | Trump's new deeps are basically predictable

I wrote a long essay for my column this week – to compare Donald Trump with Franklin Roosevelt for the first 100 days – so I run to end the week. But I have two thoughts that I just wanted to get out.

The first refers to the declining popularity of the President.

At the beginning of the week we learned that Donald Trump had dropped with most Americans into new low. According to the Times survey with the Siena College, Trump had dropped to 42 percent of the approval. A CNN survey shows Trump 41 percent and both the Associated Press and the Washington Post have Trump at 39. No president, not even this president in his first term, has become as quickly as this iteration of Donald Trump.

And it's not like he has the ability to shift the course. He is stubbornly committed to his tariffs and almost everyone who is worried about higher prices. He is committed to his unpopular cuts in federal authorities, his unpopular attacks on the federal justice and its increasingly unpopular immigration policy. In view of his attitudes and the likelihood of an economic downturn, Trump is more likely than he should increase with the public.

All of this was basically predictable. It was predictable that Trump would pursue a ruinous series of guidelines – he was committed to her. It was predictable that he selected people for the management of the government. He did it the last time he was president. It was obvious that he would be surrounded by admissible consultants who are more interested in their own close ideological projects than in the well -being of the American people.

It didn't take a clairvoyant to see how this second term would develop. And yet it is clear that there are many influence of people who have been inappropriate due to the ruthless behavior of the second Trump government. Her first reaction to Trump was to accommodate him as a legitimate president (after all, he won a free and fair choice); To connect the strictest opposition and recognize the areas in which he agreed with the public. Even now, given everything we have seen, there are voices that believe that the right approach is calm.

In my opinion, the reality of Trump – his rapidly decreasing political assets – is proof that the best approach of the strict opposition, which marked the first term of the president, was. As frightening it was for some observers, this attitude undermined the administration and successfully worked to curb Trump's worst impulses.