So far, the resistance hasn't reached Trump Land -- and that needs to change
Despite Trump's dreadful beginning as president, his supporters still love him. Can their minds be changed?
BOB CESCA
Last week, PPP released a poll showing that 51 percent of voters who support President Trump’s attempted Muslim ban believe the Bowling Green massacre, a figment of Kellyanne Conway’s insufferably vivid imagination, is one of the reasons why it’s necessary. This is incontrovertible proof that the disinformation campaign being orchestrated by the Trump White House, along with its allies on Fox News and talk radio, is working. The message of the resistance hasn’t broken through Trump’s wall of mendacity. We’ll circle back to this.
Throughout the 2016 campaign, it became abundantly clear that Trump was being judged using a different set of rules than anyone else who had previously run for president. “Unfair” barely begins to describe how Hillary Clinton’s pair of alleged scandals — the email server and, of course, Benghazi — were collectively major drags on her candidacy, even though she was cleared of all wrongdoing by multiple Republican-led investigations. Meanwhile, there was Trump’s string of blurts, gaffes and scandals — each individual instance, especially the ongoing bombshell about Russian collusion to hijack the election, wouldn’t have simply destroyed any other presidential campaign, it would’ve annihilated the very existence of any non-Trump candidate.
He’s still getting away with it.
Trump continues to blurt, shout and sign obnoxious things, yet his approval numbers continue to hover in the 40s. Granted, these are historically low numbers for a newly inaugurated president who’s supposed to be enjoying his political honeymoon. And it’s entirely possible his numbers will dip significantly lower, or he could continue to hold steady around that. We don’t know yet, despite hoping for much, much lower.
The truth is, though, his numbers should be in the teens right now, with only the Alex Jones crowd and the alt-right still clinging desperately to the floating door as the orange Titanic flounders. The list of horrible things Trump has said and done in just the first several weeks of his presidency are so unprecedented for a sitting chief executive, there’s really nothing in the modern era to compare him to. His increasingly obvious collaboration with Vladimir Putin to skew the election should be enough to anchor his presidency to the 10-20 percent approval range. In any other circumstance, with any other president in the Oval Office, he would have been impeached immediately following his inaugural parade.
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