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200. Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Will Backfire
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Can Democrats Capitalise? Trump Runs Their Party
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The discussion turns to Democratic strategy: could the party reframe these immigration rulings as an economic crisis rather than a culture-war fight and win some ground? Scaramucci is deeply sceptical. His diagnosis is blunt: Donald Trump runs the Democratic Party [1] — Anthony Scaramucci "Trump is a cue ball that smashes the Democrats into 15 different directions. Scaramucci's verdict is stark: until Democrats coordinate arou…" 17:40 . He is the cue ball; Democrats scatter in 15 directions. There's a divide between the progressive left and the hard left, with some factions insisting San Francisco's policies weren't socialist enough. Until Democrats subordinate internal grievances to a single coordinated candidate — the way Putin runs Trump, Trump runs the Democrats — they will remain ineffective. The segment is briefly interrupted by breaking news: the Supreme Court, without issuing any public reasoning or dissent, has declined Trump's request to overturn the E. Jean Carroll sexual-abuse case. Trump owes Carroll $5 million. As Scaramucci puts it: 'You win some, you lose some.'
Trump is a cue ball that smashes the Democrats into 15 different directions. Scaramucci's verdict is stark: until Democrats coordinate around one candidate and stop feeding internal ideological warfare, Trump will keep controlling them remotely — the same way Putin runs Trump.
