Posted on 02/08/2017 7:01:19 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Is President Trump in the process of imploding? Some see reason to think so. Given the major fallout over his travel ban, ranging from the spontaneous protests that have broken out worldwide to a federal judge ruling that the ban needed to be stopped, it seems as though Trump is struggling. Over the past few days, many commentators have pointed to the president’s abysmally low approval ratings, with 53 percent of Americans unhappy with the way that he has handled the job, as evidence that his power may be vastly limited by his unpopularity. With Trump madly (and impotently) tweeting about “so-called” judges, the weekend has offered a real sense that this president can be stopped.
Yet his opponents probably should not start uncorking the champagne bottles just yet.
Ronald Reagan, whose approval ratings fell from 51 percent in his first year as president to a meager 34 percent by 1982, was also the focus of international and domestic fury. Reagan triggered an international uproar when he insisted on the deployment of 572 intermediate-range nuclear force missiles in Western Europe, fulfilling a NATO agreement that had been finalized in 1979. When Reagan moved forward this plan, there was an outcry from New York to the streets of Paris....
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Trump’s approval ratings are just fine.
Apples and Oranges.
No internet influence during Reagan’s terms, and certainly no social media, Iphones, Androids...
It’s a whole different world.
Fake news and a bait headline from our enemies.
Violent offenders need to be arrested and charged.
Do that and they will stop. $1500 and sex with Madonna for 30 seconds is not worth the time in Jail for them.
Rasmussen is 53% Reurters is 50.8%
Oh noes! The MX missle! Star Wars!
Particle rail guns!
Meaning what then as it relates to Trump?
Trump loves Putin.
And will set Europe on fire.
Reagan hated the Soviets and was gonna set Europe on fire.
News flash, Europe is already on fire as is the N of Africa and Asia
I don’t remember any anti-Reagan riots. I don’t remember a serious effort to impeach Reagan and look for the reasons afterwards. There certainly wasn’t a revolutionary socialist movement that was well coordinated by social media, and truly eradicating America.
This is something very different.
A vote for DeVos is a vote for resegregation
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/05/opinions/devos-racism-public-school-opinion-wong/index.html
TRUMP STOPPED!!!??
HE ain’t Started!
News and Social Media, along with Silicon Valley High Tech types are all forming against President Trump.
He can’t win that battle with his Twitter account.
He needs to stop with the Tweets and become the next Ronald Reagan.
Stupid premise.
The only ones discussing race are the ones putting everyone into boxes to give or gain special rights, while pretending to be elevating civil rights ala a 1960’s protests.
Newsflash: The 1960’s are over and you are arguing over things that are culturally an anathema to most, by a super majority of 99.9% Americans.
I don’t personally know any racists and if I ever met one, we would never have any kind of relationship of permanence.
They would be ridiculed and scorned.
Yes, very different but even less legitimate and more impotent. All these violent haters are doing is alienating everyday hard-working Americans in droves...
There was, they HATED Reagan
Approval ratings? In an age when they wouldn't get a poll to tell them that Clinton was DOOMED?
Plus, Trump could get everything he wants done in 4 years, and never need to face another election.
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