Source: Niskanen Center
by Damon Linker
“Imagine a second Trump administration that comes to be defined by judicial and legislative efforts to restrain a would-be authoritarian president after his trade policy made him toxically unpopular. That’s the optimistic path forward the events of the past week has opened up. But unfortunately, that’s not the only possible path …. There is another in which the president and members of his administration stand their ground in the face of softening polls, threaten wavering members of Congress who dare to criticize Trump’s policies, and simply disregard or dismiss evidence of rising popular discontent. … There’s nothing more dangerous in the wilderness than a wounded animal — and maybe nothing more dangerous in the political world than a wounded aspiring tyrant. That the wounds in this case would be largely self-inflicted, tied directly to Trump’s reckless insistence on imposing unjustifiably massive tariffs, could even make his desperation worse.” (04/09/25)
https://www.niskanencenter.org/risks-from-a-wounded-president