Our Recommendations To Congressional Dems, 2 Brutal Polls For Trump, Trump Is Weak Not StrongPaid Subscribers Gather Wed Night, Founding Members Friday At 1pm ETMorning all. It’s been our core take these past few weeks that Trump’s powers are ebbing, he is growing more desperate and dangerous, and that Dems must keep finding a higher gear not just to win back power through elections but to mitigate the extraordinary damage he’s doing to the country. Beating Trump in the 2026 elections starts with “winning the fall” right now. For he is weakened and struggling, and we need to be on offense, prosecuting our advantage, making our case, acting like proud patriots defending this great nation against this unprecendented and historic attack. We have an opportunity now and need to seize it, together. Two weeks ago I wrote a comprehensive post that made 3 recommendations to Congressional Dems for how to approach the fall: 1) move to a 24/7/365 comms posture, hitting him on all fronts every day 2) create a loose national coordinating council of leading Democrats to deepen and strengthen our movement, make it harder for him to isolate us, for we are strong together than apart 3) work towards forging a new national narrative and agenda for the pro-democracy movement to counter his “Making America Great Again.” If you have not read that post - or need a refresher - I would strongly recommend reading it this morning. From that post came our current four part agenda that we’ve been asking Congress to embrace (and many thanks to all of you who have contacting Senate and House offices in recent weeks):
I don’t know how much of this we can get done in the months ahead but it certainly seems like these four things, or something similar, should be what we are fighting for now. And if Congressional Dems were to adopt such an agenda, one appropriate for the battle in front of us not the one we wish we had, I am reasonably certain that governors, leading Dems across the country and the Dem grassroots would rally and line up to fight along side our leaders to get as much of it enacted as possible. For we have to enter the fall with a clear understanding that Trump is a weakened and diminished figure; he is deeply unpopular as his agenda; the many manifest failures of his regime have become impossible to ignore or bullshit away; we keep winning and overperforming in elections across the country; that they are signaling retreat on the big ugly bill, ACA subsidy cuts, and Kennedy’s extremist agenda; and thus now is a time to go on offense and not a time to play it safe. For as historian Danial Ziblatt reminds us about the early days of Hitler principled compromise with an authoritarian can become ruinous appeasement. Look at the new NBC and CBS polling we received yesterday. Simply, it’s all terrible for Trump. He is deeply underwater with voters as is his agenda. In the NBC poll Trump is now even underwater on border security. And despite some idiotic commentary from Democratic analysts he is also deeply, deeply underwater on his invasion of American cities: His terrible tariffs keep getting more and more unpopular: Look where independents are here - minus 42!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These polls are very consistent with other recent polls from Economist/YouGov, Strength In Numbers, Civiqs and others. They all tell the same story - Trump is in significant political decline, and can no longer rally the country behind any of his major initiatives. His 2024 coalition has unraveled, and he is now -38 with moderate voters: Every single major thing he has tried since early June has gone immediately negative, and as G. Elliot Morris explained on Friday the intensity of the opposition to Trump and his agenda - vitally important for elections - has hit record levels: I am quoted in a terrific new Greg Sargent New Republic article this morning that dives into all these themes and reports on some new polling from the Senate Majority PAC. Here’s my quote:
Here’s the new data and analysis from SMP:
As I told Greg Trump and his agenda are wildly unpopular. He is not in a position of strength on any issue. Now we must strategically and ferociously take away the last remaining foundation of his brand positioning - that is he strong and a fighter. For we need to him to be
Yes more imagery like this: And more ads like this one, “Bold Leadership,” from Mikie Sherrill: For as we’ve been discussing here for the past several months, Democrats must learn how to operate more effectively operate in the dimension of politics that Trump has dominated - strong leader/weak leader, winning and losing (ahead in the polls he always is), is powerful enough to “bring needed change.” From the 2024 Exit Polls: On Friday Leader Schumer released a statement pledging to challenge the Rs far more forcefully on the #1 issue on our agenda, tariffs:
This is a welcome development. It’s a clear sign that Leader Schumer is working to find a higher gear for Senate Dems, understands that we must be strong now, not weak. Let us take this win everyone and spend our time in the coming days encouraging Congressional Dems to keep going, keep finding those higher gears, keep challenging Trump far more forcefully, to understand and seize the opportunity in front of us, and together to do everything we possibly can to win the fall - to win the fall for our kids and grandkids, and kids and grandkids of all the people of the world. For we are Americans and fighting for freedom and democracy is what we do. It is who we are…… Now, Let’s Get To Work Everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Support Our November, 2025 Candidates
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Our updated fundraising goals are now for the end of the year, December 31st, except for the 2025 races, which are now for Election Day, 2025. Take Action, Express Your Love Of Country Through Good Works - We are prioritizing two actions today: 1 - Call Your Senators and Member Of The House And Demand They Act Upon Our Four-Part Agenda - We need to be loud people, very, very loud and make the case for our our emerging four part agenda. Demand that your reps work to
2 - Bring “Resolutions Of Condemnation” To Your Community - Inspired by the tactics of our Founders learn about how Hopium members are advancing “Resolutions of Condemnation” in their communities across the country and consider bringing this initiative to your state, country or city/town. Be sure to check out our new discussion with Deborah Potter and Rachel Poliner who have passed resolutions in New Mexico and Boston, and offer advice on how to get a resolution passed in your own community. Remarkably, members of this community are now advancing 75 (!!!!) resolutions projects in 23 states +DC. Can we get to all 50 states by the fall election? Finally, please self-report your activities to our daily paid subscriber chat. These reports help inspire all of us to do more and fight harder! Been impressive to see how many of you remain involved in local, in person protests of all kinds in your communities. Keep it up!!! As we get ready for what is going to be a very intense fall of politics let’s take inspiration from those famous words from Robert Frost that “the best way out is always through” - Simon You're currently a free subscriber to Hopium Chronicles By Simon Rosenberg. For the full experience, upgrade your subscription. |
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