Criticism of Trump isnt always partisan
Posted October 28, 2017 06:28 pm
By Matt Johnson
... From Bernie Sanders to George W. Bush to Elizabeth Warren to Bob Corker to Noam Chomsky to William Kristol, the opposition to Trump is about as ideologically heterogeneous as it can be. Socialists don’t like him. Neoconservatives don't like him. Anarcho-syndicalists don't like him. People who write for Mother Jones don't like him. People who write for National Review don't like him. Frankly, most people who write for a living don't like him ...
Poll after poll has demonstrated substantial agreement over Trump’s temperament and fitness for office. Weeks before he was elected, a Washington Post/ABC News poll found that 62 percent of registered voters didn't think he had the right personal traits to lead the country. By July, only 24 percent of respondents to a similar poll (conducted by the same organizations) said his behavior had been "fitting and proper for a president of the United States." A recent Pew poll reveals that these numbers haven't improved much – only 16 percent say they "like" the way Trump "conducts himself as president" (although 25 percent report mixed feelings, 58 percent say they "don't like" his behavior). Only 26 percent of Americans describe Trump as "even tempered" – a number that only rises to 45 percent among Republicans ...
Trump has exposed fissures within the GOP that most Americans were unaware of until the past few years. That’s why Steve Bannon – the former White House chief strategist who’s back to maintaining the gigantic online sewer pipe known as Breitbart News – has inaugurated a "season of war" against the Republican establishment. It's why Flake denounced his party for backing a man who prefers retrograde economic nationalism to "free trade" and "free markets." It's why so many Republicans can hardly recognize their own party ...
Trump somehow managed to reveal the GOP's ideological diversity at a time when Americans have never been more polarized. Despite what seemed like an inexorable march toward greater party unity only two and a half years ago, we're witnessing a growing chasm between Republicans who embrace Trump-style populism, authoritarianism and nationalism and those who aren't willing to cede their principles so easily ...
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