Why is it so hard to stop Donald Trump?

[marmar]

Why is it so hard to stop Donald Trump?
More than ever, we need to understand the reasons for his political survival

By Chauncey DeVega
Senior Writer
Published September 13, 2025 6:45AM (EDT)


(Salon) Americans are in a sour political mood. Despite a soaring stock market, the economy is suffering because of President Donald Trump’s tariffs and other policies. Inflation has increased. The job market is anemic. Youth unemployment is 10.5%, which is double the national rate. More Americans are afraid of losing their jobs. Debt is increasing. The housing market is slowing. Economists are warning about a severe recession and “stagflation.”

Trump is losing support among key parts of his winning 2024 coalition, including Hispanics, African-Americans, young people, independents and first-time voters. Traditional Republican voters and right-wing-leaning independents are increasingly concerned about his agenda. His support is apparently eroding in the battleground states that were key to his victory in 2024. There are even reports, however anecdotal, that farmers — a group that has consistently supported him — are beginning to abandon him. Republican candidates are losing special elections. Most Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction. A majority views Trump as a threat to democracy and wishes he would govern with more restraint.

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The president’s political end has never come. He has always emerged from scandals, controversies and trials even more popular among his MAGA followers — and many other Americans as well. Nearly nine months into his second term, which has seen him follow through on his autocratic “shock and awe” campaign to remake America in his image, his approval ratings have remained steady, hovering around 41 to 45 percent.

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But there are other explanations for the president’s endurance against the odds.

Trump’s “law and order” theater, which has included mass deportations and threats to “invade” Democrat-led cities and blue states, are more popular than many in the news media, political class and general public would like to believe. If “the cruelty is the point,” as The Atlantic’s Adam Serwer so memorably wrote, there is a big audience for it in America. .................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/09/13/why-is-it-so-hard-to-stop-donald-trump/

[Walleye]

1. They don't know what immorality is anymore

For so long, the right wing has equated morality with sexual abstinence. That’s not it at all. Morality is being honest and treating people like you want to be treated.

[Ocelot II]

2. Because he's created a personality cult, and you can't get through to cultists

with rational arguments or presentations of facts. It's 100% emotional. There will be a Trump cult for as long as he's alive.

[jrthin]

3. It's hard to stop him because most of legacy media is in the tank for him.

They support him. The others who aren't in the tank for him are cowards.

[Redleg]

4. I would add that the media still does not know to cover Trump

Part of it lies in the fact that every damned day Trump commits a new outrage and the media is always chasing these shiny objects instead of focusing on the dominant threat: Trump's actions that move us toward dictatorship.

[jrthin]

5. Surely, if Obama had done the same things HE is doing, they'd find a way to

"properly" cover him. This is a media that was outraged that Obama wore a tan suit in summer. When the media shows you who they are, believe them. Example, Tapper and the media were all over Biden's age. Where are they now with tsf health?

[Redleg]

6. missing in action

The media also gave them a pass for saying that Joe Biden was ruining the country, taking away liberties, etc. And that same media is telling us on the left to cool it with calling Trump and MAGA fascists.

[jrthin]

7. Exactly.