07-17-2017, 02:15 PM
(07-17-2017, 01:49 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-17-2017, 11:51 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: I'm beginning to see conservatives ditch President Trump. We must all recognize that most conservatives are patriots, and they are beginning to distrust the President's preferences for a dictatorship to America's democratic allies. When disapproval of the President is in the high fifties, then the disapproval is getting into the realm of people who ordinarily vote Republican.
This is certainly enough to flip Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. NBC News and the Wall Street Journal had a poll of counties that either flipped from Obama to Trump or surged from Romney to Trump... and in those, the approval rating for the President is 44% in the counties that flipped and 50% in those that surged.
My question is whether disapproval of Trump carries over into disapproval of the unraveling memes. You would hope that continued failures by unraveling meme presidents would eventually teach some sort of lesson, but can they shift us from pendulum mode into a long term culture changing mode?
I see much of the country still dedicated to the unraveling memes, looking for a leader who will implement them properly, after which they suppose all will be well. Many unraveling meme believers seem to be attracted to somewhat off the wall personalities such as Trump and Palin. Trump demonstrated that a lot of people were willing to go with the eccentric character rather than an establishment Republican.
Can someone else go off the wall in the right way to steal the red base? Without Hillary as the lead candidate, can the blue make something vaguely Sanders like work? I find it too soon to tell.
You have lurched uncontrollably into the truth, as TV pundit and moderator John McLaughlin used to say, in that post above. I am touting Terry McAuliffe as having the right stuff and the right indicators to "go off the wall in the right way" and steal enough of the wavering and wandering independents to win. If he gets those, he doesn't even need any of the red base. There's also Mitch Landrieu, who may not be in a position, or have the inclination, to run in 2020.