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Trump's worst fear revealed as he faces GOP 'reckoning': analyst

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President Donald Trump, not even halfway through his second term in office, is about to see his worst fear realized as he faces a reckoning within the Republican Party, according to a new analysis . The Atlantic analyst Jonathan Lemire argued this week that Trump has " crashed into reality " as he "flails" both internationally and domestically. "Recent months have delivered a reckoning for Trump, who has crashed hard against some real limits," wrote Lamire. "His approval numbers have sunk, and Republicans are finally, in small doses, beginning to defy him." The president predicted his war with Iran would be a quick surgical strike but it has now metastasized into a five-month quagmire with mounting casualties, depleted weapons stockpiles, and surging gas prices making him "just the latest U.S. president to be humiliated by hard-liners in Tehran ," wrote Lemire. National policy has stymied as well. "Trump has demanded that the Senate blow up the filibuster to pass the SAVE Act , which w

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