Making Trump Irrelevant

THE LATEST POLL has it at sixty percent disapproval and thirty six approval for Trump, his worst yet, as his popularity continues to decline. his administration is finding it increasingly difficult to implement its agenda, as forces align against him, including the federal judiciary and the opinions of the American people. There has always been a strong and loosely organized resistance to Trump, resistance movement which is stronger now than at any time previously. The momentum is in the direction of overwhelming the Trump movement with such an outpouring of contempt and rejection that it loses all hope of fullly implementing its arguably malign agenda, by virtue of overwhelming the public's opposition to it. Most of the time public opinion means little or nothing to, for instance, Congress, which passes legislation which a majority of the American people dislike, and even more frequently fails to pass legisalation strongly desired by the American people, almost in the same manner as the colonial rulers in London did to the American colonies, a factor which led to the revolution for American independence. Two hundred years ago Congressman David Crockett of Tennessee, a member of that first generation of Americans born independent of foreign rule, remarked that in his opinion, Congress ought to at least occasionally legislate for the poor. A fine idea, seemingly. Since it seldom if ever sems to do this, we the people are largely left withotu representation of any sort, and are left with our only true political power, that of mass public opinion. It is a wellknown fact that the poor greatly outnumber the wealthy, and that they therefore have the potential to govern themselves. But, as Thoas Jefferson adroitly pointed out, chances are, no matter who you are, if you truly want to be free in the is world of huan subjugation of humans, you will probably, at one time or another, be forced to fight for it. In his words, "The tree of liberty will from time to time, require the nourishment of the blood of patriots and tyrants". No argument there. In our modernrn world oscomputers and sicialmedia, the potential for masspublic opinion to exert influence on the prevailing political system and establishment has never been greater. But, its only potential, The best possible result, considering current circumstances, is that for the next three years the Trump administration is thoroughly hobbled in attempting to implement its agenda by a constant onslaught of public opinion against it, that Trump leaves office having implemented essentially none of it. Policies such as deporting millions of people, bombing and killing boat people for suspicion of dealing drugs, invading our cities with the military, ignoring our current inflationary economic distress by meddling in foreign affairs, and all the rest. If we the sixty percent, the vast majority of American who diespise Trump and his leadership because we acknowledge that he is a criminal and a very stupid man, are willing to keep up the outpouring of expressions of resistance to Trump's leadership, we can, if not bring a premature end to the MAGA movement, a least render it utterlly and totally impotent, a lame duck president supported by a dwindling, shrinking minority of cultists, lame duck, dying flash of fascism in a nation searching for answers. Trump's cult will continue to shrink, as people jump a sinking ship. Approval ratings can sink to extreme lows, as Lincoln and Truman found out. Trump can be reduced to inactive irrelevancy if the sixty percent keeps growing, as it seems destined to do. And its the best we can hope for for Trump.