It's proving hard to be neutral about the 45th president
It’s hard to be neutral about the 45th president. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images There’s been a lot of arguing back and forth about the net political impact of the president’s recent lurch into explicit racism . For what it is worth, the first week of polling after he told nonwhite members of Congress to “go back where you came from” didn’t show much in the way of movement. At FiveThirtyEight, the 11 public polls taken since July 14’s tweets show Trump’s approval rating going up by 0.
One thing that has become clear, however, is that Trump – or if you think the problem is more systemic, the Trump Era – has slowly and steadily polarized public opinion along partisan lines to an amazing extent. A new NPR/Marist poll released yesterday, which was in the field from July 15-17, showed 90 percent of self-identified Republicans approving of the job the president is doing, and a precisely equal 90 percent of Democrats disapproving.
Yes, self-identified independents are less adamant, but even 39 percent of them strongly disapprove of Trump, while 22 percent strongly approve. So basically, nearly all Democrats and Republicans and nearly two-thirds of independents, either love or hate the man. No wonder he think 2020 is going to be about base mobilization and turnout.
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