01-17-2021, 02:01 PM
(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.
America still has old-fashioned conservatives, the sorts who can accept that economic inequality is a necessary spur to toil, skill, enterprise, thrift, and stewardship. These people try to distinguish themselves from the economic sadists who believe that they deserve everything not necessary for keeping working people alive.
The Democratic Party has become more culturally conservative as it takes over the "cosmopolitan" types often exemplified among model minorities who are much more conservative in style and substance than America as a whole. They may be preserving something exotic in some cases, and they strongly support individual enterprise (ordinarily a conservative value, but expecting people not white Christians to accept subordination to white Christians would offend them). These people are not at all postmodern.
...Anti-Trump conservatives are real. They would be delighted to cast off the superstitious and mean-spirited populists who so define Trump and make him so capricious. They would be delighted to take the cosmopolitan types and less-extreme liberals (who at least aren't crazy enough to want some extreme socialist agenda) into the GOP and make the GOP more like the Eisenhower-era GOP. Maybe America's GOP can become more like the German CDU.
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.