Michael Baharaeen

5 days ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

✝️ “FULL TEXT: Pope Leo’s XIV’s Homily at Mass With the Cardinal Electors in the Sistine Chapel,” published in the National Catholic Register.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen

Shortly after the 2024 election, I wrote a piece reflecting on how the Democrats had taken the wrong lessons from the results of the prior two general elections, leading them to make fatal missteps and facilitate Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. This included Joe Biden’s 2020 win and the party’s unexpectedly good midterm in 2022.

1 week ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

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2 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | Michael Baharaeen

Since Donald Trump’s election in November, political observers have noticed something different about his second go at the presidency: he has enjoyed more popular support than he did the first time around. At the end of his first term, Trump had one of the lowest presidential approval ratings on record, and he averaged the lowest approval of any president in the polling era throughout his four years. Immediately following January 6, it seemed that his political career was finished.

2 weeks ago | persuasion.community | Michael Baharaeen

Since Donald Trump’s election in November, political observers have noticed something different about his second go at the presidency: he has enjoyed more popular support than he did the first time around. At the end of his first term, Trump had one of the lowest presidential approval ratings on record, and he averaged the lowest approval of any president in the polling era throughout his four years. But things change fast in politics.