by Rod Williams, Dec.9, 2025 - Heather Cox Richardson makes the case that yesterday was a significant day and we have turned a corner in which the country and Republicans in Congress are breaking with and defying Trump. Despite the attack on Venezuela and the threats against Cuba, Greenland, Colombia and Mexico, and despite other actions from Trump that signal an increase in his imperial and authoritarian intent, there is reason to be encouraged. More and more Republicans are breaking with Trump. She lists those acts of defiance.
After the invasion of Venezuela, the ICE shooting in Minnesota, and the increasingly ugly rhetoric from the Trump administration, it is easy to get more and more discouraged, but I think Heather Cox Richardson is right. For those feeling despair, Richardson offers reasons to be encouraged.
The MAGA base is fracturing, the courts are standing up to Trump, and most importantly, Republicans in Congress are defying the President and it is looking more and more like Democrats will sweep the House in the midterm, if they can resist the impulse to nominate the most woke and most socialist among them. My fear is that as Trump sees the writing on the wall that his power is waning, and he is losing support, he may become more erratic, desperate, and dangerous.
Heather Cox Richardson is one of the podcasters whom I follow and whose insight I value. She is a historian and a professor of history at Boston College and the author of several books on American history, including a history of the Republican Party.
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