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Thursday, April 16, 2020

Trumpproval

Gallup: “As President Trump works to contain the damage from the novel coronavirus outbreak in the U.S., the rally in support he enjoyed as the nation entered a virtual lockdown has faded. His job approval rating, now 43%, has slipped six percentage points since mid-March when he earned 49% approval, which tied his personal best... The six-point decline in the president’s approval rating is the sharpest drop Gallup has recorded for the Trump presidency so far, largely because Trump’s ratings have been highly stable and have yet to reach the historical average for presidents (back to 1945) of 53%.”
It's always mattered before, here's hoping Trump's ongoing unprecedented unpopularity will topple the tyrant and his toadies, whereupon the diversifying, secularizing, socializing, planetizing rising generations will put this country and the world on a more equitable and sustainable path. Of course, it's hard to feel hopeful after the events of the last few years -- especially knowing just how eagerly and brazenly garbage Republicans will lie, cheat, steal, and kill to prevail -- and coming hard on the heels of a life-long generational slide into this stupid ugly evil morass, but with a hard fight we might just beat back the Nazis and clear a breathing space for something better to be born in. It's hard to imagine a more dreary vehicle than Joe Biden to invest with our hopes, but my own choice Elizabeth Warren didn't seem to fire the imagination or earn the trust of the Democratic base, and the Democratic party is the imperfect but available instrument through which we best defeat the worst and enact the better for now, so, here we go, I suppose, here we go.

1 comment:

Joseph Homer said...

I appreciate this post: I feel additionally doubtful about the ability of the party to make this happen but acknowledge it's what we have right now