Just updated — late tonight: Indeed, largely as a direct rebuke to Hinderaker, Mirengoff offers a candid — and largely bleak — assessment, as to whether Trump can dig himself out of this increasingly deep unpopularity hole he’s shoved himself into (while offering a more realistic run through just how bad Tangerine is doing):
…[Most] Trump decisions fared worse in the polls. Pardoning people convicted of violent crimes related to the January 6, 2001 riot polled terribly (14 percent approved, 83 percent did not). Laying off large numbers of federal workers polled badly (39 percent approval, 58 percent disapproval). So did shutting down US AID (33-56, on average) …
Banning transgender people from the military polled below 50 percent. Tariffs on steel and aluminum were a poll loser (34-49). Giving Elon Musk a major role in the administration was viewed negatively by a nearly 2-1 ratio. Giving Musk access to large amounts of data about Americans is viewed as a concern by 63 percent of poll respondents, compared to 37 percent who aren’t concerned. The Post-Ipsos polls says that Americans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the economy by 53-45 percent. Not surprisingly, given the primacy of the economy in voters’ minds, this split closely tracks Trump’s overall approval number. The Reuters poll says that only 39 percent approve of Trump on the economy. That’s lower than Trump’s approval in this realm ever was during his first administration…
That’s correct. And ominous, even as Hinderaker whistles past this graveyard. End update.
Hinderaker’s is… precious (I refuse to link it, because of how shoddy the statistical “science” methods are, in it). Meanwhile, out here in the real world… i.e., in the not-oversampled GOP household polls…
The American Research Group — polling 1,001 equally weighted GOP and Democratic registered voters nationwide this past week found that:
…A total of 43% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 51% say they disapprove of the way Trump is handling his job according to the latest survey from the American Research Group.
In February 2017, after Trump’s first month as president, 43% approved of the way Trump was handling his job as president and 51% disapproved.
When it comes to Trump’s handling of the economy, 38% of Americans approve and 56% disapprove.
In February 2017, 43% approved of the way Trump was handling the economy and 50% disapproved….
Unprompted, voters disapproving of Trump’s handling of the economy complain that Trump has not reduced grocery, gasoline, and/or energy prices as he promised during the campaign….
John better hope that Trump can do something about consumer prices, as he promised. That is what is driving anger right now — he endlessly promised to fix all the inflation, in his first week.
In fact, eggs are now about $12 for one dozen — that’s a buck an egg. Just this past summer, they were under $5 a dozen — here in the urban midwest.
That’s what real voters, most of whom live pay check to pay check — care about.
Not some billionaire dressed in all black, walking around with a cartoon chainsaw, like government is a WWF smack-down event.
And Musk’s kid (broadcast worldwide! — but I don’t fault little X, he’s just being… a kid!) picking his nose, and then wiping it on the Resolute Desk, doesn’t help either.
Word is that Tangerine 2.0 has had the Resolute Desk moved to storage/for cleaning and dis-infecting (he’s an irrational germaphobe) — because… of course he did.
Come get your boys, Hidneraker — they are flaming out.
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