calourie wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:27 am
6ftstick wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 10:21 am
jhu72 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 9:50 am
Matnum PI wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 8:30 am
DocBarrister wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 12:36 am
You do realize that is pretty low for a president in a national emergency, right?
That's exactly right. During a crisis, approval numbers sky rocket. 60% is extremely low.
… and what happens as the crisis drags on for months??
You do realize that during a crisis the MSM used to SUPPORT the President.
Here is the answer as to why it doesn't now, if you really care.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-never- ... 00857.html
In the end, the author has a really smart suggestion on how the angry (D)'s & never Trumper (R)'s can become a constructive loyal opposition, on a regional basis, using the powers of state & local govts to tax & serve their citizens.
Ironically Trump is pushing them in that direction by forcing Governors & Mayors to assert themselves & do their jobs. As the aritcle on DeBlassio pointed out, NYC has a budget, tax base, public health infrastructure, first responders, etc,. that would be the envy of any other elected leader.
Look to MD & Gov Hogan as a model to build upon.
But there's another way to respond — and that is to disconnect from the spectacle. Use America's federalist system to circle the wagons, creating an archipelago of cities and suburbs that seek to govern themselves the way the country as a whole attempted to do through the middle decades of the 20th century: with a commitment to helping those less fortunate and protecting the vulnerable from harm, to bringing policy expertise to bear on solving common problems, and to building a system of public institutions that aspire to fairness for all.
This is really no solution and certainly nothing to romanticize. It would be a concession to our civic brokenness, a giving in to how divided we are as a polity, and how disinclined to find common ground. In that respect it could well intensify our divisions further. It would also demonstrate beyond any doubt that the time for grand, ambitious national projects — like fighting climate change in a systematic way or overhauling the health-care system to make it more equitable — is behind us. The most that liberals could hope for in such a scenario would be regional accomplishments that may well feel like little more than well-managed defeats.
But really, what's the alternative when contemplating the future of the center-left in a country that re-elects Donald Trump to the presidency? Continuing to jump up and down, pointing at the president while screaming, "Look at how bad he is!," while nearly half the country rolls its eyes and turns its backs in indifference?
Wake-up American liberals: We have no one to save but ourselves.