What’s misleading? Are you suggesting he’s actually popular, despite all the [del]covfefe[/del] fake news?
when was the last president openly banned from a famous sitting senator’s funeral? A president may not go to every famous person’s funeral but they likely could go if they wanted to. BTW Sarah Palin was banned too.
538 has him at 41.6% , also it shows data for other presidents
Ivanka and Jared crashed it anyway.
And then their aides bitched that they didn’t get the best seats.
The largest bloc here seems to be the thought that his core will stay with him so long as the economy holds off crashing.
Which makes me consider a related question: would Nixon’s approval ratings kept up (and thus his GOP support persisted) if the economy had been been doing better? (1973 saw significant inflation and Watergate was occurring during a severe bear market with the S&P losing 42% of its value.)
I don’t think Nixon and Trump are comparable. Nixon loved his country. Yes, he was paranoid and corrupt. Yes he would resort to ‘dirty tricks’ to stay in power. But he believed he knew what was best for the country. I’m sure most of us disagree, but I think he was sincere. Trump doesn’t love his country. Trump loves Trump, and only Trump.
The bases are different too. Yes, there were racists supporting Nixon; but they were the minority of his base. Racists are a major part of Trump’s base. Maybe not in actual numbers, but they are more vocal that the ones Nixon had and they have the Internet now. If the economy had been better in 1973, Nixon might have not lost so much support of Republican voters; but Republicans still had a conscience back then. Today, there is nothing Trump could realistically do to alienate his base. Even if he tanks the economy, he – and his minions – will simply blame the Democrats. Most Republican voters and politicians who are still with him will stick with him.
So not sure I understand your take -
Do you think GOP leadership would have abandoned Nixon even if his popularity had stayed okay (because conscience)
Or that Trump’s popularity would survive an economic downturn more than Nixon’s did?
Understood that Nixon and Trump are different things.
I think the Republicans who abandoned Nixon did so because they could no longer support a criminal, and that they still would have abandoned him if the economy were better.
Republicans who support Trump don’t care that he’s a criminal. They like what he ostensively did for the economy. They won’t abandon him for his crimes. If the economy tanks, they still won’t abandon him because BENGHAZI! EMAILS! OBUMMER!
Stupid auto-correct! (How did it even have ‘ostensively’, anyway?)
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