Posted on 01/30/2019 6:29:48 AM PST by Kaslin
President Trump is deeply unpopular. According to RealClearPolitics, his favorability ratings now stand at just 41 percent -- near-historic lows. This means that Democrats have the upper hand heading into 2020. All they have to do is not be radically insane.
And they just can't do it.
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., the media darling of the moment, stated on a CNN town hall this week that she wants to fully abolish private health insurance, ban all semi-automatic weapons and rid the American economy of carbon emissions within a decade.
None of these positions are popular. Americans are interested in the idea of Medicare-for-All so long as there are no costs. The minute they're told that there may be delays in receiving care, as there are in nearly all countries with socialized medicine, support plummets to just 26 percent, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation poll. Only 37 percent support Medicare-for-All if it means merely raising taxes. How about banning all semi-automatic weapons? As of October, 57 percent of Americans opposed banning semi-automatics. And when it comes to abolishing private cars -- which would essentially be necessary to achieve the goals of the so-called Green New Deal -- that proposal wouldn't even chart.
Yet the Democratic primaries will require nearly every Democrat to embrace each of these positions. That's probably why Democrats are quaking in their boots at the possibility of a third-party run by former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Schultz has declared nationalized health care an impossibility; he has talked about the dangers of our massive national debt; he has opposed a 70 percent income tax rate. "I respect the Democratic Party," Schultz told CNBC this week. "I no longer feel affiliated because I don't know their views represent the majority of Americans."
Now, Schultz may be a boring billionaire, but at least he isn't pushing proposals so loony they alienate vast swaths of the American public. Democrats want to have it both ways: They want to push radical leftist policy, but they don't want the blowback such policies entail. They want to pretend that radical leftism is popular even as they implicitly acknowledge the fact that it's not all that popular. Recommended The Manure-Spreaders of Media Sensationalism Michelle Malkin
Hence New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg's fulminating over Schultz's candidacy. She writes, "this frustrated executive's politics aren't widely shared by people who haven't been to Davos." Trump's riding in the low 40s. Democrats shouldn't have to sweat out fringe candidacies. Yet that's what they're doing, because they know they've pushed too far to the left.
There's an easy answer to the Schultz conundrum for Democrats: Stop embracing the radical id of your own base. But that would involve recognizing that Trump's unpopularity isn't equivalent to support for radicalism. And Democrats will never acknowledge it -- not as long as the hope remains that Trump's unpopularity will translate into extreme leftist policy, the likes of which the republic has rarely seen.
It won’t be a problem in about 10 years. Millenials are remaining socialist into their 30’s, and a few more of us die each day. We’ll be reaching the tipping point sooner rather than later.
Let Harris, Cortez, Booker, the three muslims, and all the rest of the lunatics in the demonRAT party keep yappin’. I can’t WAIT for 2020!
FU Ben you’re more unpopular than Trump
And furthermore it doesn’t matter what they’re “pushing” when push comes to shove they vote in lockstep for Marxism
Americans, particularly those under 40, are indoctrinated, and chronically uneducated.
The Democrats radical leftism will be polished and packaged by the media to sound like the rational solution to all that ails you.
For Trump to be so unpopular, given all that he’s done, just makes me sure that Americans are stupid.
“It won’t be a problem in about 10 years. Millenials are remaining socialist into their 30’s, and a few more of us die each day. We’ll be reaching the tipping point sooner rather than later.”
Totally agree.
Indoctrination, constant propaganda. Very powerful.
Basically you have the proggies trying to wag the dog the way the libertarians did in the GOP. Problem is that libertarians produce bubble economies, which are really a lot of fun for a while. The proggies produce corruption, endless complaining, and mass unemployment. The only fun to be had is schadenfreude as everyone sinks.
excellent point
Yawn....
Thanks Captain Obvious for this cutting edge analysis.
Thank you :)
My experience with people in their 20’s and 30’s is that they get all their info from their smart phones and they accept ANYTHING that gets spoon fed to them via social media without giving it any critical thought.
And we have been censored from all of those platforms.
The Left knows what it’s doing. Victory is sadly in
sight for them.
I don't think this will be the case. Lot's of things are changing in society, including that a fair number of young people are becoming disillusioned in the university environment. I've personally never seen as many want to move off campus, take classes elsewhere, take time off to work, etc.
I think we've reached a different kind of tipping point. One at which the lack of meaning in our social media-driven secular world is feeling empty for many. That's why many are gravitating to ‘causes’. If those causes are political and not real, they will eventually see this truth and abandon them.
Wasn’t it just the other day there were polls showing his historic support from Hispanics. Now Ben’s here talking Trump’s eroding poll numbers.
They have been this radical since Xlintoon. It is just that now they feel safe in coming out in the open.
My millenials have hit 30. Others will, too. So things may tip back at some point.
Fake news.
Nobody has accurate data, and in an era when much of the populace won’t talk to someone who comes to their door or answer the phone if the call isn’t coming from someone on their contact list there is no way to gather accurate data.
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I second that. When I saw it was written by the Trump hater Benny you knew it was going to be convoluted clap trap.
He was first out of the gate to condemn the Covington kids before and after the truth came out.
So how many dog turds does Ben twist and stretch to make an image of himself?
Hey, Ben,
When you look at the RCP polling lying to us and claiming Trump’s massive unpopularity, do you look at the internals of the poll?
Things like the latest where it is from Quinnipiac claiming 38% support Trump, but they polled 26% Republican? Had 5 states they called, California, New York and New Jersey were the ones they called. Called Land Lines only.
Did you research a bit of methodology before you opened your mouth and stuck your foot in it up to your a&&hole?
Sheesh.
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