Trump’s unpopularity is affecting other elected Republicans in Washington.
Republican officials across the country are becoming anxious, even in ruby-red districts — sweating out a closer-than-expected victory last week in a House race in a Kansas congressional district that Trump had carried by 27 points. Another stress test arrives Tomorrow with a special election for a House seat in Georgia.
Trump’s approval rating is still at 39 percent, and the percent of Americans who disapprove of him is still 54 percent, according to Pew Research.
But just 40 percent of Americans now have a favorable opinion of the Republican Party — down from 47 percent in January, prior to Trump’s inauguration.
This is important. When congressional Republicans think Trump is harming their reelection chances rather than helping, they’re more likely to turn on him. If present trends continue, that could be soon.
What do you think?
Robert Reich
I’ve been waiting on them to understand they’ve made a deal with the devil since Nov. 8th. I really expected the GOP to be able to understand what they were in bed with (they should know, being all about business and free markets, small governments and such) that this frequent nuzzler of the government’s teat, this tax-cheating money-laundering excuse for a real estate developer was going to poison their whole party. But the Electoral college voted for him even though they had to know he was in bed with Russians and was going to be completely ineffectual at leadership.
Caveat Emptor
I say all this, every single word of it that I’ve written on the subject of Donald J. Trump or his 3am rage tweeting alter-ego The Orange Hate-Monkey over this past year with the personal knowledge I have gained through experience. That we have elected a con-artist to the presidency. That when you are forced to deal with a con-artist you keep your hands on your wallet and don’t agree to anything without seeing it first in writing; and even then, don’t let go of those purse-strings. Keep your legal representation on retainer and make a point of running every single thing the con-artist says to you past your counselor before responding in any fashion to him.
Above all, understand that you’ve already bought whatever it is he does while he has the office of the president in his control. If that knowledge keeps you up at night, then you are just beginning to glimpse the nightmares I’ve been having since November 8th.
I think the GOP have started believing their own bullshit and can’t remember that they’ve been lying to their own base for decades already. That anyone who emerged declaring they would do what the GOP and the Tea Party claimed they wanted to do for all this time was going to be the instrument of destruction that could potentially take down the entire US government.
It’s just too bad we can’t hold another election now before the damage gets worse (and it will) before the healthcare system fails and the SCOTUS scuttles a hundred years of progress and the do-nothing congress sits on their hands and watches Trump play golf while the US burns. I’ll be in the bar if you need me.
Facebook Status backdated to the blog. BTW, I’m still in the bar if you need me.
