New Polls: Americans Don't Like Trump and Are Bored by #TheResistance

[DonViejo]

JULY 17 2017 5:27 PM

By Osita Nwanevu

The current political situation is summed up fairly succinctly by two new polls out this week. A Monmouth Poll on Trump released Monday finds that 52 percent of Americans disapprove of the president and that 41 percent believe he should be impeached. (In the early days of the Watergate scandal in July 1973, Gallup found that only 24 percent of Americans believed Nixon should be impeached.) Obviously, the partisan divide on this question is stark. Seventy percent of Democrats are for impeachment, while only 32 percent of independents and 12 percent of Republicans agree. Monmouth’s poll additionally shows that Americans have not bought the administration’s defenses of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with Russians during the campaign. The Monmouth poll finds that 59 percent of Americans believe the meeting was inappropriate, including 86 percent of Democrats, 58 percent of independents, and 28 percent of Republicans.

On the surface, this would seem like good news for the Democrats at the forefront of the Resistance. The bad news, however, is that to most Americans, the Resistance has very clearly subsumed the party’s identity in a negative way. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll from Sunday finds that 52 percent of Americans don’t believe the party stands for anything beyond opposing Trump. That includes not only majorities of the white working-class voters whom some Democratic strategists have puzzled over how to win back (65 percent of white noncollege men and 51 percent of white noncollege women). But it also includes a significant number of nonwhite voters typically within the Democratic fold—they’re almost evenly split on this question with 43 percent saying the party stands for something beyond resisting Trump and 42 percent saying the party does not. Americans are clearly interested in and largely disapproving of the constantly unfolding Russia imbroglio. They’d also like to hear the Democratic Party put forward an affirmative vision or message beyond a desire to boot Trump out of office. As the House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley told the Associated Press last week, “that message is still being worked on.”

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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/07/17/new_polls_americans_don_t_like_trump_and_are_bored_by_theresistance.html

[gordianot]

1. Gross incompetence on the right but what is going to be done about it?

Now is the time for all good men and women to at least say what aid is needed in their country.

[KingCharlemagne]

2. When Trump's policies lead to 25% unemployment and general economic

collapse (think January, 1933), we will need to organize local committees of correspondance and collective self defense.

[gordianot]

3. Bullies are often shocked when their victims defend themselves.

I made sure my kids knew what to do. I may be described as a liberal but am not a pacifist.

[KingCharlemagne]

4. Good. I wish I had known principles of self-defense when I was

an adolescent. Might have prevented some of the shit I went through.

[Johonny]

5. It boggles the mind that less than a year from the longest election season every 52% of Americans

still don't know any of the Democratic platform the party just ran on. Is it the Dems fault for not pushing it-possibly. Is it the media's fault for not covering it-some, I guess. Is it 52% of Americans fault because they are just too damn lazy to even try to look it up or listen to it even though it was offered to them for nearly a year now-hmm more and more it feels like this. Democracy doesn't work when the electorate is just damn indifferent to it.

[kacekwl]

6. Unfortunately unless it is a scandal or

something played on TMZ then they won't bother to pay attention. That's why trump did better than anyone thought because everything was outrageous.