I think the poll results are pretty stark and show that Americans aren’t blind or deaf to what is (and isn’t) happening, yet I’m not optimistic that anything will change, at least not before the 2018 midterm election winners are seated. Frankly, I’m not at all convinced that most Americans have figured out how we got here, so I don’t have a lot of confidence that they will be able to figure out how to get somewhere else on purpose.
This seemed to volatile for MPSIMS and too general for Elections and I figured that people are prolly gonna want to cuss and stuff, so I put this in the goddamned motherfucking Pit.
“…Overall, 67 percent of Americans disapprove of the job Trump is doing in office, including about one-third of Republicans. …”
I can see sane Americans disapproving, but the third of Republicans who disaprove are the worlds biggest marks, particularly if they voted for the “reality” tv huckster. Trump’s bridge buyers who fell for a scam that an idiot would have spotted a mile away. The 2/3 of Republicans who apparently approve are a blend of evil, stupid, fearful, racist and deplorable.
My guess would be that the 24% is the actual white-supremacists (whether they own the name or not). These are the folks who will stick with Trump no matter what, because they believe they’ll never again see anyone as openly racist as Trump installed in the White House–he’s their best shot at getting what they want.
The 37-39% that’s often talked about as being Trump’s “base” includes an additional group: the people who didn’t particularly respond to the ‘Mexicans are rapists, blacks can’t walk down the street without being shot’ stuff. They were, instead, some combination of the poorly informed (i.e. they genuinely believed Trump to be a “good businessman”), and the one-percenters who don’t care about the Wall and dog-whistles, but only about tax cuts.
That 12-to-14% has been sticking with Trump more out of ego-protecting rationalization, then out of any reality-checked assessment of how he’s done since taking office.
Has anyone seen any polling asking people what their estimate would be on the number of Americans who largely agree with their own political persuasions? It appears to me that the myth of the “silent majority” still prevails, otherwise, how could the Troglodyte Right believe that Trump was robbed of popular vote win by skulduggery? If they can believe the Big Lie about their actual numbers, then they can believe anything that follows from that. After all, majority rules!
Well, his bottom is 27% of his body weight, anyway.
Usually fat men show mostly in the stomach, but most of his fat goes to his fat ass. Like a woman. This should be pointed out to him.
Also, his fat ugly face is starting to show levels of Bannon-style dissipation. Is he downing a quart or more of whiskey a day? I know he says he’s a teetotaler, but he lies about everything.
When we look at the long term trend for this question Trump is doing about average right now. It seems like everyone from the party opposite the president thinks we’re going in the wrong direction, some people in the president’s party think we’re going in the wrong direction, and independents think we’re going in the wrong direction no matter who is president.
While this is a low point for the Trump presidency he’s got a way to go to equal the low point of the Obama administration.
Some notable data points:
October 17, 2009 - 17.0% Right Direction 76.5% Wrong Track
October 18, 2013 - 17.4% Right Direction 74.9% Wrong Track
June 10, 2009 - 45.8% Right Direction 45.8% Wrong Track
The last one is interesting because it is literally the only date in Obama’s term where wrong track wasn’t ahead of right direction in the RCP average.