100 Days of Trump: The Fears Were Justified

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : THE DAY AFTER Donald Trump's election victory last November, Alexandros Marinos, a COVID-19 "dissenter" and minor figure in the "heterodox" community, posted this challenge to Trump opponents: As the second Trump presidency nears the 100-day mark, it's instructive to look back at the challenge Marinos posed in his tweet.
42% : Who, prior to the election, could have imagined a scandal around the SecDef discussing sensitive military information in Signal chats from a phone number that is apparently all over the internet? Share The fact that MAGA world is floating the idea to such an extent that the official Trump store is now selling "Trump 2028" merchandise with a call to "rewrite the rules," while Trump is musing about "loopholes" to the Twenty-second Amendment and talks about being "inundated with requests" is, well . . .
39% : The arrest of Wisconsin judge Hannah Dugan for supposedly helping an illegal immigrant defendant in her courtroom evade Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents looks very much like a power move intended to ramp up intimidation of the judiciary.
39% : More recently, Trump has publicly urged Brendan Carr, his handpicked chair of the Federal Communications Commission, to investigate CBS over two 60 Minutes segments (on Ukraine and on Greenland) that irked him.
39% : Some have been detained by ICE on suspicion of being here illegally (with a clear pattern of racial profiling of Hispanics).
38% : " Again, predictable, since Trump had referred to them as "hostages" and "patriots" on the campaign trail and promised to free them as soon as he took office -- but I admit I was still shocked by the blanket pardon for all the nearly 1,600 people charged in the attack, including ones who had viciously assaulted cops.
37% : Instead, we got a rollercoaster of on-and-off tariff threats followed by the madness of "Liberation Day" of April 2, cratering stocks, confused messaging from Trump and his team (the tariffs will bring in so much money they'll replace income taxes!
35% : On top of that, the Trump administration has been eviscerating America's soft power by closing the United States Agency for International Development and trying to shut down Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
34% : Keep up with all our articles, newsletters, podcasts, and livestreams: As bad as the first-term family separations were, Trump 2.0 has already managed to eclipse them by shipping off migrants to a notoriously brutal prison in El Salvador.
31% : What's more, the Justice Department has decided that Trump's clemency also covers other charges stemming from the January 6th cases, such as illegal possession of weapons found during searches. Pre-election, Trump had repeatedly suggested yanking the licenses of television networks that had displeased him -- and filed an absurd lawsuit against CBS's 60 Minutes for supposedly biased editing of Kamala Harris's interview.
28% : Now Trump is apparently poised to recognize Crimea as officially Russian -- though he's also made some anti-Putin noises in the last few days after Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities.
27% : Also, because Trump has invoked an eighteenth-century law to classify Venezuelan migrants suspected of gang membership as alien invaders, the administration ordered federal agents to enter U.S. citizens' homes without a warrant in search of Venezuelan gangbangers.
25% : Aid deliveries and intel-sharing were paused in early March after Trump and Vice President JD Vance had an Oval Office tantrum about Volodymyr Zelensky saying mean words about Vladimir Putin.
23% : Economists are warning about the possibility of empty shelves and layoffs, retailers are freaking out, and Trump is no longer railing against "panicans."
22% : We are already in a de facto constitutional crisis with the Trump administration, and Trump himself, ignoring court rulings, including a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling directing the administration to "facilitate" the return of unlawfully deported migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia (though so far, Trump has tried weasel around the order -- "that's not what my people told me!" -- instead of openly defying it).
18% : Some Ukraine-watchers say that it could have been worse, since Trump hasn't shut off the aid already allocated or permanently cut off intelligence-sharing.
18% : But so far, Trump's combination of friendly overtures and toothless threats is clearly emboldening the Kremlin, and the only question is whether Trump is knowingly pro-Russian or simply a useful idiot.
14% : Meanwhile, federal prosecutors have been forced to resign because they wouldn't go along with orders to drop the bribery and fraud case against New York mayor and newly minted Trump pal Eric Adams. Get 30 day free trial Not particularly hard to predict, given that pre-election, Trump had been saying things like "I am your retribution" and amplifying calls for "televised military tribunals" for former Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and former Vice President Mike Pence.
8% : Many of us did fear something that, so far, does not seem to have panned out: that America's weird love affair with Trump is so dysfunctional it will be impervious to Trump's real-life failures.

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