Does Trump really have a 90% approval among GOP?

[left-of-center2012]

I heard that on last night's network news.
(either CBS or ABC)

I just find it impossible to believe so many Americans can be that stupid.

[spanone]

1. there are ten republicans and nine like him.

[AlexSFCA]

2. absolutely

they are tribal, he is much more popular among rep voters than bush ever was.

[HAB911]

3. Consider a shrinking party raises the trumper's percentage

I hope it is so

[Tom Rinaldo]

5. Yes. Those who left the Republican PArty because of Trump don't show up in those statistics.

We can only ope there are many of them.

[lagomorph777]

6. Correct - relatively sane Republicans are now former Republicans. That boosts the percentage...

...but does not boost Trump's actual support.

[NewJeffCT]

4. yes he does

He's climbed in the polls this year because he has solidified his hold over Republicans. A year ago, Trump was around a dangerously low 80% approval among Republicans.

However, since that time, he gave the RW Neil Gorusch on the Supreme Court and has appointed radical RW judges at an unprecedented pace.

He passed the Trump/Ryan tax scam that enriched the wealthiest and screwed over Obamacare.

He has relentlessly promoted himself, and with the help of Fox News, Rush and other RW media sources, has promoted the aspects of the economy that have been going well without giving the negative things that are happening - like 1.8 million jobs created in 2017 sounds great if you have no perspective. However, Fox and others will leave out the fact that 1.8 million jobs is barely break even in a nation of our size and is worse than each of the last 5 years under Obama.

[lagomorph777]

10. He's lit many short fuses in the economy. Short-term, it looks good on corporate Wall Street TV.

Long-term, Trump's goal is to destroy the American economy on behalf of his boss, Vladimir Putin.

But he is taking a big gamble. Risky moves like the trade war are likely to detonate prematurely in his face. Harley is just the first sign of it. Our former allies will continue to target iconic American products which are made in Trump Country. That will depress his nut job base in November if the job and wage losses begin over the summer.

The Billionaire Tax Cut has already fizzled; voters have noticed that the small short-term loan from the IRS on their paystubs, is not worth much. Trumpanzees don't yet understand that it's a loan, not a gift from their ersatz-wealthy overlord. If they did, the Billionaire Tax Cut would go from neutral, to GOP doom.

[no_hypocrisy]

7. In a decade, the same nine will be disowning hiim.

Trump is not a God to Republicans like St. Ronnie.

[mcar]

8. The party is shrinking down to only his cultists

[uponit7771]

9. K&R, The fever will break once his inorganic economy crashes

[GoCubsGo]

11. Yes, but the party is also shrinking.

There are a lot more Steve Schmidts and George Wills out there than a lot of people realize.

[C_U_L8R]

12. If you have a brain and a heart

You're not a Republican any more. Maybe you've gone independent, may be you're libertarian, maybe you've become a democrat. The GOP is now a racist stinkhole where critical thinking and good deeds for the common good are forbidden acts. Highly energized, potent, yet self-defeating and shrinking under its own hatefulness. Maybe Trump can whip it up into his 4th Reich vision, but he's in for a hell of a fight.