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Why I Am Optimistic

Trump is Losing His Pillars of Support

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Christine Axsmith
Jul 11, 2025
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“Laura Loomer: There’s A ‘Haitian Invasion’ And Migrants Are ‘Sacrificing Your Animals’”

Why I Am Optimistic

When you’ve lost Laura Loomer, you’ve lost the conspiracy industrial complex.

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Referencing “Why Civil Resistance Works,” Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan’s book of the same name,

Every autocrat has to depend on pillars of support: business community, security forces, civil servants and state media.

Trump is Losing His Pillars of Support

Business Community

Farming and construction industries are being hurt from a lack of workers to, well, do the work. Cue more expensive food. Small businesses that relied upon international trade are losing revenue because they lost their source of components and can’t replace them with something Made in the USA.

Wall Street

These idiotic tariffs have caused punishing losses on Wall Street - somethi…

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