17-01-2021, 15:47
The bottom has just fallen out of Trump’s approval rating.
In the 10 days since the Capitol riot, his net approval went from -9% to -21%. In four years of posturing, petulance and porn stars, this is the only time we’ve seen such a vertiginous drop in his standing. This is the stuff of Richard Nixon after the “smoking gun” tape, which is the point at which his own party abandoned him.
I guess we all wondered what “the line” was that Trump couldn’t cross. He dropped a few points after the Muslim travel ban, but bounced right back. He caused a government shutdown over a childish tantrum about his precious Wall and took a bit of hit for that, but he recovered almost immediately after the shutdown ended. Failure to “repeal and replace” Obamacare didn’t really hurt him. Charlottesville barely touched him. The Russia investigation — where Democrats and the media definitely over-reached — arguably helped him. But he was guilty as sin and caught red-handed in the Ukraine scandal (“...read the transcript!...”) and that didn’t hurt him much either.
So at least now we know. It’s the incitement of insurrection against your own government. Evidently ... that’s the line.
In the 10 days since the Capitol riot, his net approval went from -9% to -21%. In four years of posturing, petulance and porn stars, this is the only time we’ve seen such a vertiginous drop in his standing. This is the stuff of Richard Nixon after the “smoking gun” tape, which is the point at which his own party abandoned him.
I guess we all wondered what “the line” was that Trump couldn’t cross. He dropped a few points after the Muslim travel ban, but bounced right back. He caused a government shutdown over a childish tantrum about his precious Wall and took a bit of hit for that, but he recovered almost immediately after the shutdown ended. Failure to “repeal and replace” Obamacare didn’t really hurt him. Charlottesville barely touched him. The Russia investigation — where Democrats and the media definitely over-reached — arguably helped him. But he was guilty as sin and caught red-handed in the Ukraine scandal (“...read the transcript!...”) and that didn’t hurt him much either.
So at least now we know. It’s the incitement of insurrection against your own government. Evidently ... that’s the line.