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With prices way up at home and an illegal war continuing abroad, the GOP is fighting tooth and nail over daylight savings time. The bill in question is the Sunshine Protection Act, which would make daylight savings time permanent. Trump wants it, but Tom Cotton of Arkansas has been blocking it, citing dangerously dark winter mornings. It’s the kind of small, boring disagreement that used to be most of politics. Kind of refreshing, actually. But the President clearly doesn’t see it that way. On Saturday, he posted a rant on Truth Social, telling supporters that “Tom Cotton, a friend of mine, is holding up a very important Bill.” He then posted Cotton’s personal cell phone number and urged people to call it and convince him to support the bill. Tom Cotton isn’t one of the moderates who break with Trump from time to time. He’s one of the most loyal Republicans in the Senate. He’s been with Trump on just about everything. His reward for that loyalty? A MAGA mob sent to his phone over clocks. The insanity was obvious to other Senate Republicans. The story here is not about daylight savings time. It’s not even about Trump snapping at one of his closest allies. It’s about a president facing a wave election and focusing on all the wrong things. While Democrats beat the drum on the issues that really matter, Trump is burning the few bridges he has left over minor issues. That’s the help Republicans are getting from the White House with four weeks to go. Super Intelligence, anyone?