Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability

[Bob Butler 54]

(01-16-2021, 04:46 PM)mamabug Wrote:  Notice, though, he still has 40% approval.  The shift from 'approve' to 'disapprove' I would guess could wholly coming from the center-to-moderate right.  Speaking from what I've heard on that side, they disapprove of Trump now because they want him to get out of the way. They see his continued participation in the public sphere as being a way for media and democrats to marginalize any objections to their agenda.

That more disapprove of Trump, does not necessarily correlate to people disowning Republican ideas.  For those who seem to think that Trump is the sum total of what this Crisis is about, defeating him does not mean automatic buy in to continued government takeover of the economy and imposition of intersectional ideology.  That is why I maintain this Crisis has not yet hit a point where it can be said to be resulting in a renewed social fabric that is the primary benefit of the High.

I have the crisis problems as COVID, the economic fallout of COVID, systematic racism, red violence, with a honorable mention to global warming.  Trump didn’t invent these.  Racial oppression, red violence, pandemics, greenhouse gas burning and economic collapses have existed for a long time.  Trump just managed to embody the wrong side of all these crisis problems just as the crisis trigger hit.  He brought things into focus.

The renewed social fabric depends on the new administration successfully tackling the crisis problems.  With the red violence dependent on a big lie, the vaccine, and a possibility of passing civil rights legislation, it could happen.  Still, the proof is in actually implementing it all well.  Looking at how things usually resolve in a crisis, there may be reason for optimism.  Still, we are just entering the crisis heart.  We will have to see if folks start rolling up their sleeves and doing it.