Trump’s approval rating hits 50+
I actually don’t pay all that much attention to the ups and downs of approval ratings. People are fickle; they forget what happened last week and ask “what have you done for me lately?” And people are unfickle (yes, I know that’s not a word), and some will never desert their candidate no matter what (as Trump himself famously said).
Nevertheless I thought I’d point out that Trump’s approval numbers went up shortly after his SOTU speech. It doesn’t surprise me; the speech was excellent.
But the smallness of the bump doesn’t surprise me, either, because most people probably didn’t listen to it and most of those who did are probably already pretty set in their opinions of Trump.
Donald Trump’s job approval rating among likely U.S. voters hit 52 per cent on Monday in a daily tracking poll conducted by Rasmussen Reports, the polling organization he uses most frequently to promote himself.
That number is his highest since March 6, 2017, less than seven weeks after he took office. It has been even longer since Trump’s ‘strongly approve’ and ‘strongly disapprove’ numbers weren’t under water. They were even at 39 per cent on Monday.
Can you imagine what his numbers might be if the press wasn’t engaged in a 24/7 effort to destroy him?
Friday is the deadline—the “looming deadline”—for the budget negotiations and possible shutdown. I don’t see a solution on the horizon, and if there’s another shutdown I’m unsure how it will go. The public tends to blame shutdowns on the Republicans no matter whether the current president is a Republican or not.
I’m also not sure whether Trump will be successful in his efforts to come up with alternative funding for the wall. But I do know that the left must be feeling quite frustrated at the moment at his rising poll numbers. Of course, they take the long view—the really long view—so they’ll keep their spirits up.
[NOTE: This isn’t really all that related, but I wanted to mention that I’ve spoken recently to two leftists I know (one a close friend and the other a bare acquaintance) who love, love, love AOC.]
I find it discouraging that people love AOC. She doesn’t even talk a good story, just magical unicorns and skittles, none of which hold up to even slight scrutiny.
The love of Sandy-O. For many I suspect it is about having a motivated and photogenic front-person for the Revolution. Because this revolution will be televised. If we can’t kill it first.
The best strategy against AOC and company is ridicule/mockery.
It’s AOC’s passion they seem to love. And her demographics, and looks. Also her pretend-identity as just a working class gal from the Bronx.
I don’t know if the (well-deserved) mockery is all that good of an idea, because we’re letting her live rent-free in our heads. Most of my Facebook friends are politically conservative and the number of memes featuring her in the past couple weeks has gotten ridiculous. We don’t need to mock her, we need to mock her ideas. There’s an important difference. It doesn’t matter how much of an idiot she is, no one who supports her is going to be swayed by pointing it out.
College or high school republican clubs should pass pout flyers ate every school in their area advising them that if AOC and her GND-supportive candidates for president win the election there will be no more Mac&Cheese, no more grilled cheese sandwiches, no more hot chocolate, and no more milk for their breakfast cereal. Tell them that the house renovations their parents will have to pay for will probably mean that next year’s Christmas gifts will be a lot smaller. Tell them to ask their parent what they think.
The slogan should be “If you want to be poor, vote socialist”
They need to pass out flyers with realistic estimates of what it would cost, and then make comparisons to other things like, say, the Apollo program or World War 2. Put the thing in perspective. Point out that there’s no way to pay for these things.
If you start thinking of her as the congresswoman from Twitter, the whole phenomenon makes a lot more sense. I mean not just her celebrity but her policy proposals as well, and her whole approach to politics.
“Students Love Green New Deal… Until Hearing What’s In It”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoziALuwbtg ~4-5 min.
I hope it’s actually representative. (No mention of AOC I think.)
I think that AOC has done a wonderful job of disproving the stereotype of the “dumb blond”.
All the Dems had to do to keep Trump’s numbers down was not be crazy. Heh. They’re not capable of it, nor blackface or sexual assault or antisemitism by their newest icons.
ConceptJunkie makes the classic good discourse = good government suggestion. I’m not sure how well that works at this point in history, but I do agree that it is always worth a try.
I’ve mentioned that Kevin Hassett took a stab at explaining how dysfunctional socialism is in economic terms in “The Opportunity Costs of Socialism.” It’s interesting and informative, but not really a persuader.
I hear people like Kamala Harris blithely extoll single payer healthcare and dismiss private insurance as an anachronism that would be banned under her plan. This is a supremely bad idea. I wish Hassett and maybe Sec. of HHS Alex Azar would get together and create a white paper with details on the health care systems in other major nations.
My understanding of situation in the U.K. is that it is one of the older and more hard core single payer systems. And that anyone with significant income or wealth pays for private insurance precisely because they wish to avoid the serious problems in that system.
Canada, 10 or 15 years ago had a system that banned private major-medical insurance, until their version of the Supreme Court decided that the scheme was unconstitutional. Too many folks had died waiting for care.
Harris and Sandy-O will try to lead us down the same destructive path unless voters are informed. I don’t think cost estimates will have the slightest effect on voters, unless they can be convinced about what it will cost them.
I’ll be surprised if there isn’t another shutdown.
The dems and media will of course blame Trump. But no matter what he does, he’s “guilty as charged” with no need for evidentiary proof in a ‘kangaroo court’ such as Judge Kavenaugh endured.
So, I think he has no choice but to declare a National Emergency and use the military to start building the wall. In restarting the federal government and ‘tossing the ball’ to Congress, I think he’s given Senate Republicans the political cover they need to vote against conviction in the Senate. As, IMO, it’s a “cast iron certainty” that Trump using the military to start building the wall will trigger his impeachment.
But Trump’s impeachment for using the military to build the wall, in response to Congress’ refusal to fund the wall, raises a much more serious matter, one that logically the dems fall prey to…
If the invasion of millions upon millions of alien criminals and, they’re ALL criminals… doesn’t qualify as a domestic National Emergency that represents a National Security threat… then what does?
If Congress acts to prevent the President from responding to an existential National Security threat… how is that not an act of sedition and treason?
And, if they use the impeachment process in an attempt to stop a President from using his Constitutional authority to respond to a declared National Emergency, they compound their treason.
How long can a nation endure that tolerates treasonous acts that have no consequence?
Arguably, Trump would then have a legal, Constitutional duty to charge them with sedition and treason. Other than armed conflict, nothing less will stop the Left from overthrowing the Constitution, as they are determined to “fundamentally transform” America.
AOC should not be mocked on a personal level, let her be the voice of the DNC. In opposition start a campaign directed at the under 30s with the message that the GND means you will be living in your parents’ basement until your 50s. Once your parents die, you will inherit nothing as the socialist/communists hit you with a 100% inheritance tax.
GB,
I agree. But that may be a bridge too far. Prep for war neighborhood against neighborhood. Where I live, not so much.
The Governors of California and New Mexico have pulled their National Guard troops off the border. What Trump should do is either federalize them and order them back, or even better, remove all Border Patrol, ICE, and CBP, as well as dismantling all border barriers, ports of entry, and border crossings from those states and move them elsewhere.
ConceptJunkie on February 11, 2019 at 3:50 pm at 3:50 pm said:
I don’t know if the (well-deserved) mockery is all that good of an idea, because we’re letting her live rent-free in our heads. Most of my Facebook friends are politically conservative and the number of memes featuring her in the past couple weeks has gotten ridiculous. We don’t need to mock her, we need to mock her ideas. There’s an important difference. It doesn’t matter how much of an idiot she is, no one who supports her is going to be swayed by pointing it out.
parker on February 11, 2019 at 6:34 pm at 6:34 pm said:
AOC should not be mocked on a personal level, let her be the voice of the DNC. In opposition start a campaign directed at the under 30s with the message that the GND means you will be living in your parents’ basement until your 50s. Once your parents die, you will inherit nothing as the socialist/communists hit you with a 100% inheritance tax.
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Great minds in the same channel, guys.
Mocking Obama did not sway any of his fanclub, they just loved him more for being the target of the h8ey h8 h8ter conservatives.
Keep pushing the personal pain that their policies will promulgate.
Relentless mockery will work against AOC because she will always be tripped up by her own ignorance. It is so blatant the MSM won’t be able to cover for her. Obama was very canny and not a loose cannon. AOC is.
Molly Brown,
I think you are mistaken. Barry was just about there his entire career. AOC adulations prove there are hundreds of millions lining up to drink the Jim Jones kool-aid. I wish them a similar fate. I hope it is televised.
Speaking of mockery…
https://babylonbee.com/news/nancy-pelosi-blinks-please-send-help-in-morse-code
“…mockery…”
“Let it flow, let it grow” etc….
AOC has, albeit unintentionally, added an entire new dimension to the world’s energy industry.
(At the very least, she has re-introduced true, rib-splitting and refreshing humor to what has become a prog-induced comedy drought—for which she must surely be thanked….)
Proof lies in the following inspired post from Instapundit, which I assume many of you have seen; but for those who haven’t…:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/321425/
Speculation about the shutdown is fun, but we all know that “nobody knows”.
My guess is that the next shutdown hurts the Dems more than the Reps, who will say the Dems were NOT negotiating in good faith, with reasonable proposals.
But the Dem media will blare that it is Trump’s fault. So, I’m not sure Trump wants to fight this battle — he’s been pretty good about feeling what battles he can win or not, and fighting those he can win.
Neo,
Did you ask your socialist friends if they liked eating beef or traveling by airplane?
Unicorns fart out carbon-free skittles without methane emissions! I heard it from AOC. It was straight from the horse’s mouth?