Posted on 04/18/2017 3:01:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trumps rocky first months in office havent much bothered his voters. At least, not yet.
Yes, there have been lots of stories from the Rust Belt about stirrings of discontent among the Trump faithful. But those are mostly anecdotal and so far data meaning polls dont back that thesis up.
For instance, in a big new Pew Research survey fully 92 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents say Mr. Trump has done as well or better than they expected. Only 7 percent say hes done worse.
What this means is that Trumps base remains intact. In turn, his ability to lead and pressure the GOP-controlled Congress probably does too. After all, Congress as a whole is less popular than he is. House Speaker Paul Ryans job approval rating, in that same Pew poll, is an abysmal 29 percent. That low number could damage Representative Ryans ability to drive any upcoming tax reform effort.
But Republicans havent yet become a populist-tinged Party of Trump. Chaos matters. The administrations flopped travel ban is still stuck in the courts. Obamacare remains, stubbornly, unrepealed. Tax reform is receding into the distance. Trumps GOP backing might dwindle as well....
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I have no information on whether Assad’s regime ever attacked ISIS or their affiliates.
If we're in same spot in six months, it won't be Trump that gets blamed.
Thing about the Syrian civil war is that there ARE no ‘good guys.’
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