Heather Cox Richardson

What does this say?

The United States, under Donald Trump, went after the leader of Venezuela and his wife and extracted them.

Not everybody, by the way, who was in that indictment, but extracted them to put pressure on the Venezuelan government.

At the same time, they pardoned a convicted drug dealer from Honduras.

What does that do?

That makes that man's party, which then went on to win election, beholden to Donald Trump.

Again, what you're seeing is a personalization of a foreign policy that looks much like a dictator like Vladimir Putin or somebody who is trying to personalize what the world looks like in his neighborhood.

And Donald Trump has behind him the United States military.

Mm-hmm.

To make all this happen.

And honestly, that galls me more than almost anything else.

That is our tax dollars and our daughters and sons that are being used to put money and power into Donald Trump's pocket.

And I don't think any mag has voted for that.

The question that you raised, though, is a really interesting one.

So if you are a Republican in elected office right now,

You're caught between your voters who are deeply unhappy with the healthcare cuts that are taking away rural hospitals, with the economy where prices continue to go up, with the cutting of public services.

They are deeply unhappy.

They don't like the deportations.

Trump is underwater on every single issue, including the strikes against those small boats that he insists are narco-terrorists.

So this is a presidency that is in historically low favor with the American people.