Guno צְבִי
Never Again
There are several foolproof tests for an ignoramus. Spending your life’s savings on Powerball tickets is one. Honoring an email request that opens with “Dearest One” and asks for a hefty loan in fractured English is another.
As we mark the first full week of Donald Trump’s second year in office, we have another indication of intractable stupidity: crowing about how Trump won the election and liberals need to get over it. You can find such sentiments (to cite just one example) on this site’s comment threads following columns that are critical of the president.
Trump-ish triumphalism betrays buffoonery for a simple reason. Any general knows the difference between winning a battle and winning the war. The drunken euphoria over November 2016 has left many Trump voters too tipsy to see the evidence that their side is forfeiting the war for the future. Whatever Trump’s personal prospects in 2020, and his party’s prospects in November’s midterms, if Trumpism and the GOP were patients, they’d be on suicide watch now.
In short, Trump hasn’t solved the demographic dilemma that troubled Republican pollster Whit Ayres even before the billionaire declared his candidacy: “Groups that form the core of GOP support — older whites, blue-collar whites, married people and rural residents — are declining as a proportion of the electorate. Groups that lean Democratic — minorities, young people and single women — are growing.”
For now, many white voters fear the inevitable browning of America. That fact, plus Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings and the idiosyncrasy of the Electoral College, handed Trump victory. But SurveyMonkey found that his antics last year cost him support among two groups that were critical to his 2016 coalition.
That year, 66 percent of whites without college degrees voted for him, but his first year in office shaved 10 points off that support. Meanwhile, white voters with four years of college gave the Donald 48 percent of their votes two years ago. Now, just 40 percent approve of him.
The result: Millennials and people of color, the voters of the future, are finding the GOP radioactively unsupportable. If you back the president and think the foregoing point is just sour grapes from a Never Trumper, you should stop reading now. There’s survey evidence corroborating Republicans’ long-term peril.
Online pollster SurveyMonkey asked more than 600,000 Americans last year their view of Trump. The results, in line with other polls, showed more people disapproving of the president’s job than approving. But it was the breakdown of who precisely approves and disapproves that’s revealing.
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/01/23/surveymonkey-trump-rich-barlow
As we mark the first full week of Donald Trump’s second year in office, we have another indication of intractable stupidity: crowing about how Trump won the election and liberals need to get over it. You can find such sentiments (to cite just one example) on this site’s comment threads following columns that are critical of the president.
Trump-ish triumphalism betrays buffoonery for a simple reason. Any general knows the difference between winning a battle and winning the war. The drunken euphoria over November 2016 has left many Trump voters too tipsy to see the evidence that their side is forfeiting the war for the future. Whatever Trump’s personal prospects in 2020, and his party’s prospects in November’s midterms, if Trumpism and the GOP were patients, they’d be on suicide watch now.
In short, Trump hasn’t solved the demographic dilemma that troubled Republican pollster Whit Ayres even before the billionaire declared his candidacy: “Groups that form the core of GOP support — older whites, blue-collar whites, married people and rural residents — are declining as a proportion of the electorate. Groups that lean Democratic — minorities, young people and single women — are growing.”
For now, many white voters fear the inevitable browning of America. That fact, plus Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings and the idiosyncrasy of the Electoral College, handed Trump victory. But SurveyMonkey found that his antics last year cost him support among two groups that were critical to his 2016 coalition.
That year, 66 percent of whites without college degrees voted for him, but his first year in office shaved 10 points off that support. Meanwhile, white voters with four years of college gave the Donald 48 percent of their votes two years ago. Now, just 40 percent approve of him.
The result: Millennials and people of color, the voters of the future, are finding the GOP radioactively unsupportable. If you back the president and think the foregoing point is just sour grapes from a Never Trumper, you should stop reading now. There’s survey evidence corroborating Republicans’ long-term peril.
Online pollster SurveyMonkey asked more than 600,000 Americans last year their view of Trump. The results, in line with other polls, showed more people disapproving of the president’s job than approving. But it was the breakdown of who precisely approves and disapproves that’s revealing.
http://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/01/23/surveymonkey-trump-rich-barlow
