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From: Brumar89	6/1/2025 9:13:08 AM
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In an opinion column published on May 30, the New York Times' Ross Douthat argues that Trump's "ideological shamelessness" plays a key role in his "resilience." Trump deeply resents the "TACO" meme that has been circulating among Wall Street investors. TACO stands for "Trump always chickens out" — a reference to the way he threatens U.S. trading partners with steep new tariffs but later backs down. "The willingness to swerve and backpedal and contradict himself is a big part of what keeps the president viable, and the promise of chickening out is part of Trump’s implicit pitch to swing voters — reassuring them that anything extreme is also provisional, that he’s always testing limits (on policy, on power) but also, generally willing to pull back," Douthat explains. "A case study: Just six weeks ago, I wrote a column describing the second Trump presidency as headed for political failure, while noting that a course correction was still possible. That caveat was debatable, since Trump’s post-Liberation Day polling was starting to look like (former President) Joe Biden’s polling numbers after the botched Afghanistan pullout.

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