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Apropos for the orange-u-tan - "Starting At the Bottom" TPM
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/starting-at-the-bottomBy JOSH MARSHALL Published DECEMBER 11, 2016, 5:06 PM EDT
Incoming presidents usually have outsized approval ratings due to some softening of partisan division and some hope for a successful presidency. Pew just published approval ratings for the last five presidents during their transition periods, with approval a) for explaining their policies and plans and b) for their cabinet choices. They are Bush 65/59, Clinton 62/64, Bush 50/58, Obama 72/71. For Trump they are 41/40.
Everyone comes down from these highs. But Trump is starting with dramatically lower marks than any recent predecessor.
This is not surprising. During the campaign and even in the exit polls, a large number of his own supporters thought Trump was unfit to be president. He won with 46% of the vote and even a substantial number of supporters had a deeply negative view of him. 41/40 is sort of respectable by that measure.
But it all adds to the mammoth instability of the moment. You have a president-elect breaking at every turn elements of long established practice, upending alliances and diplomatic understandings which have undergirded peace in different parts of the world for decades. He's picking a cabinet made of plutocrats campaign donors, a few conventional rightwing nominees and appointees but lots of people who are manifestly unqualified for their posts. And all this comes with public approval ratings which would be near the danger zone at any point in a president's term.
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Apropos for the orange-u-tan - "Starting At the Bottom" TPM (Original Post)
NRaleighLiberal
Dec 2016
OP
Lets hope the incompetence in of this ship of clowns keeps them from being successful in reaching
world wide wally
Dec 2016
#2
Best_man23
(4,897 posts)1. But of Course He's Going to Hire Unqualified People
NO ONE else in the room can be smarter than the Orange-u-Tan.
world wide wally
(21,740 posts)2. Lets hope the incompetence in of this ship of clowns keeps them from being successful in reaching
Their goals which are basically to search and destroy their r respective agencies
Judi Lynn
(160,515 posts)3. May their incompetence live on, for humanity's sake.