So Far, the Resistance Hasn't Affected Trump Supporters - Can That Change?
Salon Magazine, (via Alternet)
February 13, 2017
By Bob Cesca
Last week, Public Policy Poling released a poll showing that 51 percent of voters who support President Trump's attempted Muslim ban believe that the Bowling Green Massacre, a figment of Kellyanne Conway's insufferably vivid imagination, is one of the reasons why it's necessary.
This is incontrovertible proof that the disinformation campaign that has been orchestrated by the Trump White House, along with it's allies on Fox News and talk radio, is working.
The message of the resistance hasn't broken through Trump's wall of mendacity.
We'll circle back to this.
It became abundantly clear throughout the 2016 campaign that Trump was being judged by a different set of rules than anyone else who had previously run for president had been.
"Unfair" barely begins to describe how Hillary Clinton's pair of alleged scandals - the email server and, of course, Benghazi - were major drags on her candidacy, even though she was cleared of all wrongdoing by multiple Republican-led investigations.
Meanwhile, there was Trump's series of blunts, gaffes, and scandals - each individual instance, especially the ongoing bombshell about Russian collusion to hijack the election, would not have simply destroyed any other presidential campaign.
It would have annihilated the very existence of any non-Trump candidate.
Trump is still getting away with his mendacity.
He continues to blurt, shout, and sign obnoxious things, yet his approval numbers hover in the 40 range.
Granted, this is a historically low percentage for a newly inaugurated president who's supposed to be enjoying his political honeymoon.
And it's entirely possible his ratings will dip significantly lower or it could continue to hold steady around that level.
We don't know yet, despite our hoping for much,much lower.
More:
http://www.alternet.org/activism/resistance-meets-trumpland
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