If ever there were a time for a serious intraparty challenge, it’s now. He has strong support from elements of the Republican base, but he has alienated virtually everyone else, especially those segments of the electorate that are growing the fastest. The ideal challenger would be a committed, articulate conservative — maybe a governor, such as Maryland’s Larry Hogan, or a senator, such as Nebraska’s Ben Sasse — who would make a case for limited government that will otherwise go unmade, and who would show voters that conservatism and Trumpism are not one and the same…
The Mueller investigation is testing whatever sanity Trump still possesses. Democrats controlling the House will use their newfound power to investigate every corner of the Trump administration — an administration already marked by malfeasance and corruption. Two of the men credited with constraining Trump’s most destructive impulses over the first two years — Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly — have left the administration. Perhaps most ominous for Trump’s political fortunes, a growing number of economists are predicting a slowdown of the U.S. economy — threatening the one issue where wins Trump positive numbers.
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