Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability

[Eric the Green]

(01-17-2021, 01:04 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-16-2021, 04:46 PM)mamabug Wrote:

(01-15-2021, 07:00 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: This is an aggregation of polling results. Multiple pollsters are involved, but not the most sympathetic ones to Trump (Rasmussen and Trafalgar) or the one most hostile (Quinnipiac).

Enough said.

 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'd say most don't like his personality and his lack of decorum/professionalism. I gave him a pass on that and ignored his tweets because I was comparing him to those on  the Left.

It's true, mamabug and classic. The nub of the problem is really people not disowning Republican ideas. It is Trump's policies that are the most dangerous. Like brower I knew decades before that Trump was an immoral clod, and said so on the old T4T forum over 20 years ago. I didn't yet know what would be the full extent of the destructive harm of his future presidency's policies. So long as opposition to Trump focuses only on his personality, and even only on his corruption and treasonous sedition, it misses the point. It is the Republican ideology that needs to be disempowered. 

I expect this (and have predicted this) to happen gradually; not all at once, but through the 2020s. We'll see if it happens. Unless it does, our society remains mired in this delusive, unnecessary detour given us by the horrible charming faux-macho actor 40 years ago. It remains truly tragic in every way, and destined for total failure, for our country and for the world. The nation truly MUST decide whether to continue this horrible, destructive, neo-liberal, trickle-down, xenophobic and racist social darwinism, or not. Before this happens, indeed, "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."

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