More HOPE from TPM - "Trumptanic Approaches Repeal Iceberg - Everything Is Fine"

[NRaleighLiberal]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trumptanic-approaches-repeal-iceberg-everything-is-fine

By JOSH MARSHALL Published MARCH 15, 2017, 9:27 AM EDT

If you're involved in politics in any way, it is always important to distinguish between what matters, what's important and what will have concrete effects, effects on political outcomes, elections, and so forth. Often they overlap. But that is not always the case.

Take a couple examples. Unless there is a shattering revelation in the Trump/Russia investigations, the story is not likely to break Trump or his political coalition. Will it cause damage over time? Yes. But it won't break him.

Similarly, advocacy and activism against Trump's xenophobic immigration policies is similarly unlikely to do so. It is hugely important to who we are as a country and the fate of millions of Americans and millions more immigrants. It has vast political traction but it largely lines up with our existing political divisions. For this reasons, in electoral terms it is not likely to be a game-changing issue.

Health care is different. The political traction of health care is difficult to overstate or compare to any other in politics. That's what has always made it such a volatile and explosive political issue.


Here's Gallup's running approval numbers for Trump from yesterday. These come as the scale of the impact of the Trumpcare proposal was coming into view. But it actually includes only a sliver of polling from after Monday's CBO report.



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Last paragraph - "This can break Trump if his opponents can organize effectively, maybe even if they can't."

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Yup. All fine. Nothing to see here.

This is fine.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. kicking for wider reading