Trumpism cracking?

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 strike on a small boat off Venezuela, and the Senate and the House Armed Services Committees have announced they intend to conduct “vigorous oversight” and “gather a full accounting” of the operation.

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Former judge advocate generals (JAGs), military lawyers, in the Former JAGs Working Group issued a statement declaring that it unanimously “considers both the giving and the execution of these orders, if true, to constitute war crimes, murder, or both,” and called for “anyone who issues or follows such orders [to] be prosecuted for war crimes, murder, or both.”

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Hegseth purged J(Judge) A(Advocate) G(General)s from the Army and Air Force and systematically dismantled the military’s legal guardrails. And that, “Had those guardrails been in place,” they wrote, “we are confident they would have prevented these crimes.”

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A Gallup poll released yesterday shows President Donald J. Trump’s job approval rating at 36% with disapproval at 60%, and that since last month, Trump’s approval has plummeted 11 points.

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Republicans’ approval of Trump has fallen seven points to a second-term low, while approval among Independents has fallen eight points to its lowest point in either term.

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Trump’s threat to attack Venezuela attracts the support of only 30% of Americans. Seventy percent oppose such military action.

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Only 55% of those who voted for Trump in 2024 see themselves as MAGA and that 38% do not consider themselves as MAGA and are less enamored of him than are his MAGA loyalists.

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Florida governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, recently joined California governor Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, in speaking out against the Trump administration’s plan to offer up to 34 offshore drilling leases off the coasts of Alaska, California, and Florida.

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Indiana state senator Greg Walker, a Republican who is standing firm on his refusal to vote in favor of redistricting, said, “I was taught as a child the difference between right and wrong,” Walker told The (Columbus) Republic, “and this is just wrong on so many levels.”

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Walker also said, "The president trying to save his own skin by holding a majority in Congress,” and, “It’s so that he’s not impeached again. That’s all this (mid-decade redistricting) is about.”

(All the above is from Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American <heathercoxrichardson@substack.com>