01-19-2021, 02:50 PM
Obvious explanation: Trump disapproval could have hardly gotten worse among Democrats!
Say what you want, but most Republicans really are patriots, and they now must choose Trump and their country (not to mention its political norms that have been around longer than they have as persons). Put together the two and average them, and figure that the few real independents there are are likely about the same as this average, and you get about 30% approval.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.