President Donald Trump entered his second term with significant political advantages but, according to a former Washington Post political journalist, a "trifecta" of political blunders has put his presidency into "freefall." "Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now," Greg Sargent wrote for The New Republic. "We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States." Do you have a favorable opinion of President Trump's job performance in his second term so far?

While these three news items might seem unrelated, Sargent argued that the poor economy, his controversial immigration policies and the Iran war are all linked as part of a "trifecta" by which Trump "is frittering away the strength he and Republicans have enjoyed in recent years on three major GOP-friendly issues: The economy, immigration, and national security." Do you think that Iran posed a serious immediate threat to the United States as President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth have claimed?

According to Sargent, this was not inevitable. "When Trump took office last year, it was reasonable to fear that the American public would rally behind mass deportations and tariffs—that is, embrace two of the main tenets of right-wing nationalism," he opined. "Meanwhile, the launch of the largest military attack in the Mideast in decades might have plausibly produced a rally-around-the-war-president effect. None of that is happening. And that's significant in not-so-obvious ways." Do you think that President Trump cares that the U.S. Constitution gives only the U.S. Congress the authority to declare war under Article One?

"That supreme hubris is now breaking up on the shoals of Trump's malevolence and incompetence on tariffs, his undisguised white nationalist brutality on immigration, and his sociopathic warmongering amid an obvious lack of any real war rationale," Sargent concluded. Trump's political weakness is already evident in the special elections that have occurred since he took office. In these, he has been 0 for 9, with NBC News reporting that since Trump took office last year "Republicans have not flipped a single state seat controlled by Democrats." According to most polls, American voters are connecting Trump's policies to their unpopular outcomes. Do you think that Trump's agenda and presidency are in a 'Death Spiral'?