This rogue wave of outrage is enough to force Trump to resign

Systemic Error Podcast · Jul 2, 2026 · 3m

The President Who Turned His Party Into a HostageThe Source’s Reality CheckThe column’s core claim is not that Trump is suddenly vulnerable in some abstract sense. It is that his power has curdled into a narrower, more transactional thing: he can still command attention, but he no longer needs the party apparatus he once used as a shield. The economy is strained, Trump’s age and frailty are harder to hide, and Republican lawmakers are increasingly annoyed that he is acting like their problem rather than their patron.That is the useful part of the story. The rest is the usual collapse fantasy…