{"id":169606,"date":"2025-06-09T06:51:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169606\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T06:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:51:10","slug":"i-still-cant-believe-republicans-chose-trump-over-stability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/169606\/","title":{"rendered":"I still can’t believe Republicans chose Trump over stability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this really what Republicans still want? Are they so scared of trans people having rights or undocumented immigrants receiving due process they chose a government that won’t stand up to tyranny?<\/p>\n

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Six takeaways from the President Donald Trump, Elon Musk feud<\/p>\n

From disappointment to threats, here are six takeaways from the public spat between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.<\/p>\n

Anyone could have predicted that President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s second term was going to be an absolute disaster. I doubt even Republicans realized it would be this bad.<\/p>\n

Amid Trump\u2019s feud with Elon Musk<\/a>, our tanking economy<\/a> and our dysfunctional Congress, it seems that the next three and a half years are going to be rough on the country. I have to imagine that some Republican voters have buyer\u2019s remorse but would never admit it.<\/p>\n

I also realize that, for many Republican voters, a chaotic government is better than one that\u2019s run by a Democrat. They would rather watch our country become an international laughingstock than vote for someone who would run a stable, albeit more liberal, government. They would rather have millions lose health care<\/a> than have a Democrats in power.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll be the first to admit that Kamala Harris<\/a> wasn\u2019t a perfect presidential candidate, but she was competent. She was energetic. She could ensure the country stayed on its course and continued to be a place where people felt secure. We could have had that. And Republicans in Congress would have done their job. Instead, we have this.<\/p>\n

So, this far into Trump’s chaotic reign, I have to ask. Is this really what Republicans wanted?<\/p>\n

President Donald Trump vs. Elon Musk<\/a>. Really?<\/p>\n

In case you missed it, Trump and Musk<\/a> have gone from inseparable to enemies in a matter of hours. Musk, who was previously charged with leading the Department of Government Efficiency, has gone on X (previously Twitter) to allege that Trump was included in the Jeffrey Epstein files<\/a> and whine that the Republicans would have lost the election without him.<\/p>\n

Trump, in response, has threatened to cancel<\/a> all of Musk\u2019s contracts with the federal government. It\u2019s almost entertaining, in the way high school drama is entertaining. If only the entire country weren\u2019t on the verge of suffering because of it.<\/p>\n

Opinion: <\/strong>Musk erupts, claims Trump is in the Epstein files. Who could’ve seen this coming?<\/a><\/p>\n

If Harris had been elected, I doubt she would have made a narcissistic man-child one of her closest advisers in the first place \u2013 not just because Musk endorsed Trump, but because he was and continues to be a liability. She wouldn’t have created DOGE and then allowed it to be a threat to Americans<\/a>. Republicans, however, were unwilling to acknowledge the baggage that came with having Musk on their side.<\/p>\n

Now we have the president of the United States embroiled in a childish social media battle with the world’s richest man<\/a>. Think about how stupid that makes the country look.<\/p>\n

Is this what Republicans wanted? Is that what they still want? Surely they knew that the Trump-Musk partnership, like many of Trump\u2019s alliances, was going to implode. They are so scared of progressivism that they would rather have pettiness and vindictiveness in the White House.<\/p>\n

The American economy is not doing well. You wanted this?<\/p>\n

Trump, ever the businessman, has decided that making everything more expensive is what will make our country great again. His tariffs are expected to cost the average family $4,000<\/a> this year, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

I thought Republicans were the party of the working class. I thought they were supposed to care about grocery prices and the cost of living. But with the insanity of Trump\u2019s tariffs, a cooling job market<\/a> and tax cuts that protect the wealthy, it seems like nothing is actually getting better for the average American. Our economy actually shrank<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Opinion: <\/strong>Who would want to have babies under a Trump administration? Not me.<\/a><\/p>\n

Again, Republicans, you really wanted this? You were so scared of a government that was slightly more liberal that you would let everything get more expensive for working families? What were you afraid of \u2013 taxing billionaires? Helping first-time homebuyers? Harris\u2019 \u201copportunity economy\u201d? It seems like none of you thought this through. Or, worse, you did.<\/p>\n

The Republican Congress is a joke<\/p>\n

Another element of Trumpism is the fact that Republicans in Congress seem to be fine with the way he is completely dismantling the United States government. They don\u2019t care that his One Big Beautiful Bill Act is going to add to the deficit<\/a>, so long as it\u2019s a Republican putting us further into debt.<\/p>\n

Some of them, like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene<\/a> of Georgia, failed to even read the bill before voting for it. Their lack of interest is so substantial that she just admitted it openly.<\/p>\n

Opinion: <\/strong>Why can’t Democrats take advantage of all this obvious Republican failure?<\/a><\/p>\n

If Harris had been elected, there would be no need for Congress to monitor her every move (even if they\u2019re failing to do that with Trump).<\/p>\n

Instead, we may have seen a legislature that, while divided, was able to function. We would have had checks and balances and likely significantly fewer executive orders, none of which would have tried to rewrite the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n

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Once again \u2013 is this really what Republicans still want? Are they so scared of the possibility of trans people having rights or undocumented immigrants receiving due process that they would choose a government that won\u2019t stand up to tyranny? Would they really elect a tyrant in the first place? They did, so I suppose they must be OK with all of it.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t get over the fact that Republicans willingly chose chaos over stability. They would rather say they won than have a functioning government or a stable economy<\/a>. They would rather see our country suffer than admit that Trump is a raging lunatic. That isn\u2019t patriotism \u2013 it\u2019s partisanship. They would rather give Musk billions in federal contracts<\/a> than help Americans in any way.<\/p>\n

This is what nearly half the country chose for the rest of us. And it doesn\u2019t seem like anyone is embarrassed about it.<\/p>\n

Follow USA TODAY columnist Sara Peque\u00f1o on X, formerly Twitter: @sara__pequeno<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this really what Republicans still want? Are they so scared of trans people having rights or undocumented…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[6580,5492,6898,6907,11753,11757,5762,11765,8179,8745,6897,6906,5483,32,33,8866,295,5491,5498,6888,6887,2175,10521,8865,6584,12,391,11768,11767,7670,5179,6591,5487,11752,11763,285,5486,2861,12959,11759,1757,1166,1017,8187,5181,49,978,659,11758,11769],"class_list":{"0":"post-169606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-administration","9":"tag-branch","10":"tag-campaigns","11":"tag-campaigns-u0026-elections","12":"tag-center","13":"tag-collection","14":"tag-columnists","15":"tag-columnists-opinions","16":"tag-congress","17":"tag-content","18":"tag-democratic","19":"tag-democratic-party","20":"tag-donald","21":"tag-donald-trump","22":"tag-elections","23":"tag-elon","24":"tag-elon-musk","25":"tag-executive","26":"tag-executive-branch","27":"tag-harris","28":"tag-kamala","29":"tag-kamala-harris","30":"tag-left","31":"tag-musk","32":"tag-negative","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-opinion","35":"tag-opinion-collection","36":"tag-opinion-content","37":"tag-opinions","38":"tag-overall","39":"tag-overall-negative","40":"tag-party","41":"tag-politically","42":"tag-politically-center-left","43":"tag-politics","44":"tag-republican","45":"tag-republican-party","46":"tag-republicans","47":"tag-sharing","48":"tag-trump","49":"tag-trump-administration","50":"tag-u-s","51":"tag-u-s-congress","52":"tag-u0026","53":"tag-united-states","54":"tag-us","55":"tag-usa","56":"tag-usat","57":"tag-usat-content-sharing-opinion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}