It seems only the Trump true believers still believe, and I would think many of them would be frustrated with his lack of progress. Though it seems nothing sticks to him in their eyes.
I have heard the True Believers blame Paul Ryan, the obstructionist DEMs, the moderate Republicans, the lying media, etc. However rarely do I hear them blame Trump for his leadership and communication failures. It simply amazes me...
It is like they have attached so much of their pride and hopes to him that they can not acknowledge his failures, without harming themselves. I am sure there is some psychological term for this.
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I have heard the True Believers blame Paul Ryan, the obstructionist DEMs, the moderate Republicans, the lying media, etc. However rarely do I hear them blame Trump for his leadership and communication failures. It simply amazes me...
It is like they have attached so much of their pride and hopes to him that they can not acknowledge his failures, without harming themselves. I am sure there is some psychological term for this.
CNN Trump Approval at Record Lows
RCP Trump Approval / Disapproval
The Hill Trump Approval at Record Low
Heroes and Villains
MP Trumps Low Numbers
ReplyDeleteTrump was elected to disrupt Washington. The voters who supported him saw him as an innovative thinker who would bust up the entrenched partisanship. As a vastly successful businessman he knew how new and different things got done. But now that Trump is in office, we have seen nothing like that.
ReplyDeleteTake the health plan. Trump is a guy who has hired people. He has told us that nobody in America knows more about health care policy than he does. And even I know and concede there is huge room for improvement in Obamacare which was a system designed not so much to be good as to be designed to get through Congress. So what did health care expert Trump offer us? Did he huddle with the greatest minds on the issue to come up with a policy that was good for Americans instead of good for politicians? Did he come out with a plan that beautiful, that was amazing? No. Not at all. He simply played a lot of golf and endorsed what Republicans had decided on behind doors. A programs under which 22 million Americans lose their health insurance for no reason Trump, a master communicator, has chosen to communicate.
Donald Trump is emblematic of one of the grandest traditions in American myth, the huckster and the con man. More than any politician I have ever seen, he is the inheritor of PT Barnum, in believing that there is a sucker born every minute and that he Donald Trump was born to take them.
--Hiram
I am currently reading this book "The Deal of the Century" about the breakup of AT&T. The really amazing guy to me is Bill McGowan of MCI. He took a promising idea and used it to bust up America's greatest and most entrenched monopoly. It took enormous effort on numerous front, but he completely disrupted a way of thinking Americans had engaged in for a century. Contrast this with businessman Trump, who pretty literally does nothing in office. We talk about the golf weekends, the leisurely attendance at the Women's Open, the casual and corrupt promotion of his own business interest. But what we seem to focus on less often is the huge opportunity cost we are all paying for presidential passiveity. Last week was a crucial week for Trumpcare such as it is. It was beautiful he told us. Presumbaly 22 million Americans losing health insurance would make America immeasurably greater. So why wasn't Trump out talking to Americans about it? Why wasn't he barnstorming the nation to praise Trumpcare? Isn't that Trump's strength, the ability to put in words, the hopes and dreams of all Americans? Yet weirdly, almost inexplicably not just nothing, but also a failure to understand that something needed to be done.
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