As I travel around the country flogging my new book “Coming Up Short” (which, please remember, you can order at bookshop.org, and the audiobook at libro.fm ), I’m seeing a groundswell of revulsion against Trump. His economy is a disaster. He promised to bring down prices, yet the prices of most goods are rising. Food prices are soaring. Job growth has stalled. American manufacturing has contracted for six straight months. Trump’s poll numbers are dropping like stones. The ghost of Jeffrey Epstein continues to haunt him.
He’s now trying to deflect attention from his failures by renaming the Defense Department the War Department and threatening to occupy if not go to war with Chicago (“Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR” read a recent White House post). Yet most