Donald Trump: polls of approval and favorability

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(01-19-2021, 11:00 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: pbrower2a

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.

Trump will be out of office tomorrow is no longer President. (pb) The Republicans aren't as fortunate and they're pretty much in the same boat as the Democrats. I'm cool with the Democrats fucking up. running amuck and further angering and dividing the country. I'm cool with a mentally incompetent Democrat in the White House and a group of unknowns making decisions for him and a token VP who is guilty of supporting and assisting insurrection replacing him. I'm also okay with a Democratic House and Senate that's loaded with arrogant and insecure politicians won't don't listen to any other than themselves as well. I think its the perfect situation myself.[/quote]

I want Democrats to succeed not so much in consolidating power in a country as Republicans try to establish themselves without Trump while ideologically adrift, but instead in effective service in making America better for more people. Ideally they will do something for the poorest parts of America, including the very white parts of rural America that now vote heavily Republican.  Donald Trump is identity politics at its most extreme, and he tried to serve one side of the political spectrum at the expense of the other... which never goes well. 

We have just left one Skowronek cycle and entered a new one. I hope that Donald Trump has effectively (if ironically) humbled enough of us to recognize that we have big problems that we solve with reason, conscience, and empathy. We are not in the same conditions that we had at the start of the neoliberal, plutocratic era that began with the "Reagan Revolution".   The people born since the Reagan era began have known little more than a political ethos, at least among the Right, in which the only purposes in life for people not already rich is to make people already filthy-rich even more filthy-rich. Nobody ever asked the Millennial Generation whether they wanted that.

Political failure is not a viable option. Political failure implies more of the same of what many of us despise. At worst isn't some imminent revolution; it implies instead the bad trends that came into being in the 3T become institutionalized as indelible traits in national character and both economic and political practice. Donald Trump is the end of the line for the Reagan Revolution. 

We are in new and uncharted waters, but we have gotten away from the realm of the Kraken, the Medusa, and the maelstrom.