# Would a war with North Korea and/or a terrorist attack boost the popularity of Trump and the GOP?

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**Post date:** [December 17, 2017, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-a-war-with-north-korea-and-or-a-terrorist-attack-boost-the-popularity-of-trump-and-the-gop/804648/41 "2017-12-17T19:01:43Z")

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> [@Sherrerd](#):
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> I’d guess that the current ‘one-third of Americans like Trump and two-thirds of Americans do not’ proportions would hold: the One Third will believe that Trump is bravely defending us against otherwise certain annihilation by the massive nuclear arsenal of Kim Jong Un.

This would be my take as well. At this point we are so polarized that there is hardly anyone left who doesn’t have a strong opinion on Trump, and those opinions are going to color everything that he does. Bad events on the world stage are just going to reinforce the preexisting narrative that he has a dangerously belligerent stance on North Korea, and general incompetence in diplomatic affairs, So the majority of Americans that currently have a negative opinion of him will see any destruction on his watch to be his fault, while the minority who like him will rally around him and wave the flag.

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