Trump is a great candidate and a terrible President. This is perhaps the least controversial take you’ll hear all day, and it’s worth mentioning that this is the case everyone on the pro-Democracy side was screaming about during the election cycle, and that folks who ended up voting for Trump brushed off as, well, Trump Derangement Syndrome or something.
But he’s a really, really bad President, and, according to recent polling, even his voters are catching up to that fact.
Exhibit A: The libs over at Fox released a couple of polls that aren’t so great for POTUS.
While they cooked the Job Performance poll slightly by breaking “Border Security” into its own category (including it in Immigration would have left a less rosy outlook, for example), everything else is … bad.
And that’s good! It means that there is at least a portion of Trump voters who are not so enthralled by the cult leader that they are capable of believing their own eyes when it comes to just how terrible he is at President-ing.
We see similar plunges in the numbers when it comes to his approach to Iran. Abortion. Jobs & the economy. And even crime.
So. Does this matter right now? It depends on what we’re trying to achieve. The midterms are a million years away (or 17 months, anyway), and there’s no reason to believe these numbers will remain in stasis for that long. There’s also a chance that polling won’t matter. But Presidents — even authoritarians — care about perception.
Trump is the most vain narcissist on the planet. If anyone is telling him just how unpopular he and his policies have become, he could always moderate.
(*I’ll give you a second to stop laughing. Done?)
But here’s the thing — Trump isn’t the only one who is affected by polling. With numbers this bad, you get momentum. Andrew has a lot to say about this in this week’s Behind the Numbers.
The big picture: We don’t like Trump. We don’t like Trump’s policies. And, it turns out, we’re not alone.
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