Something isn’t right in the inner circle
The David Pakman Show - April 2, 2026
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Early Democratic polling shows Kamala Harris, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Gavin Newsom with favorable numbers, but none unify the party. Each faces skepticism from different factions and winning both the primary and general election will require building a broad coalition.
Support for authoritarian leaders is driven more by identity, emotion, and charisma than policy. Supporters remain loyal because abandoning the leader would mean admitting they were wrong, making these movements difficult to break up.
Trump’s Republican allies are now hedging and reinterpreting Trump’s statements rather than fully endorsing them. Genuine respect appears to be declining. Many decisions seem driven by managing fallout rather than Trump’s direction.
Questions have emerged about who makes decisions when Trump is absent. Major actions sometimes occur while he is elsewhere. Figures like JD Vance appear to be taking more active roles, and decision-making appears fragmented across aides, cabinet members, and advisors.
Efforts to interfere with the 2026 election are already underway. Allies of Trump are promoting federal presence near polling places, stricter voting rules, and expanded authority for local officials to challenge results. While each action may seem minor, together they could reduce turnout and create confusion.
Trump often chickens out due to impulsivity, poor planning, and lack of follow-through. Bold announcements are made without testing feasibility. When reality hits through market reactions, legal challenges, or political pushback, he shifts or reverses course.
Finally, red state Trump supporters are facing the hardest impacts of his policy decisions. Promises of lower prices, stronger growth, and health care reform have largely failed. Tariffs, rising gas prices, and health care uncertainty hit working-class voters hardest, and some of their frustration is being directed toward Trump.
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DEFEAT THE OLIGARCHS WHO ARE GETTING RICHER OFF THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN SUFFERING & OUR TAXES - STOP WAR & CRUSH ICE
Our tax dollars are now being used to fund worldwide death and destruction rather than the humane human services they were intended to support. Yes WE are funding all this evil - illegal wars, mass destruction, kidnapping/murdering civilians, criminalizing peaceful protesters, terrorizing families, brutalizing law abiding citizens, destroying local community businesses! Our indifference is helping the oligarchs get richer off the business of war and human suffering.
Führer tRump plans to build more for profit concentration camps and expand ICE. The tRump has given ICE direct orders to fill these torment chambers with as many humans as possible - even the tiniest newborn citizens are worth big bucks. He intends to send scores more of his illegal brutal ICE gangsters into more peaceful communities to terrorize citizens and to hunt humans for profit. The oligarchs are making a killing (pun intended) every time ICE kidnaps and detain someone in their concentration camps. They hope to instill so much fear in the rest of us, that it demobilizes us.
He is planning to draft our sons and daughters and force them to fight illegal wars, they don't want to fight. Many of them will be coming home in body bags and boxes we also pay for. The tRump generously uses our tax money to pays the oligarchs for weapons of mass destruction. They are turning huge profits and we are struggling to survive with less services and money.
In America the fascist infiltraters calling themselves Republicans continue to striping away services that were intended to help Americans lead better lives. The administration is stripping all of us from health and medical services, FEMA funding for natural disasters, protection from weather and climate change, etc. They are defunding medical research that can save life's, education, child and elder care services. Instead of helping citizens of the USA our tax money is being spent on the tRump's lavish parties, vacations, personal entertainment and anything to the evil being discovered in the tRump/Epstein Files.
We must unite to bring down those responsable for these atrocities. We must resist every single day! One mass event every few months will not bring down the regime. Successful movements require just 3.5% of population (11 million Americans) EXHIBITING SUSTAINED DAILY RESISTANCE - THIS IS NOT OPTIONAL - IT IS A NECESSARY REQUIREMENT FOR A SUCCESSFUL MOVEMENTS!
WE MUST SUPPORT THESE MEASURES:
1) PEOPLE’S PROJECT 2026 (PP2026) it is a powerful evolving International Peace Movement aimed at debilitating the rogue tRump regime, his demonic ICE huntsmen, and the diabolical oligarchs that control us - all while promoting peace and kindness. With united global support (The tRump's tariffs, threats and attacks hurt them too.) PP2026 covers all the bases for a successful movement and requires only small sacrifices when compared to loss of life and massive destruction, due to the tRump's impending national ICE raids, unprovoked illegal wars and from world wide threats directed at former US allies. Foreign governments are rightfully planning strategic plans to defend themselves from US! PP2026 was created to stop human suffering, restore our democracy and end Project 2025. It has just three vital required steps - plus it provides many optional ways for everyone to fulfill those steps - regardless of income, age or ability.
Learn more here:
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/project-defeat-the-trump?r=113nff
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2) END CITIZENS UNITED & Plan to Provide Public Financing to Help Fund Fair Elections! URGENT CALL FOR ACTION FROM AMERICA'S PROFESSOR, ROBERT REICH
Get the details here:
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/end-citizens-united-in-2026-urgent?r=113nff
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3) BANKRUPT THE OLIGARCHS!
Here's are lists of businesses and reasons to boycott them:
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/boycotts-to-defeat-the-trumps-oligarchs?r=113nff
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4) RESISTANCE UNITED 2026
List of movements that can be fought from the safety of your home. Support as many as possibly can:
https://onemommy.substack.com/p/resistance-united?r=113nff
This is what happens when you put a whole bunch of dysfunctional, mentally ill, criminally minded people together.
The same thing happened in Trump‘s first regime. They fall among themselves. He ended up firing some of the people who are actually competent like Rex Tillerson who cancel frustrated with Trump that he called him an idiot. Then he fired Mad Dog General Mattis and Robert Bolton. Trump promised everybody he would have the best people and ended up having the worst people. His second regime looks like he hired the worst of the worst and the most corrupt of the corrupt. Trump surrounds himself with incompetent idiots so that when something goes wrong he can blame them. I wonder if he’s going to fire whiskey Pete Hegseth. Probably not because he and whiskey Pete are probably giving each others butts the midnight hammer.