If these are your guideposts, we’re already lost.https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/889812314161020931 …
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I get your point. Maybe the problem is using “normal” as another word for “within the bounds of healthy democracy.”
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I think that is much better way to describe what you're getting at - & I think those bounds are being tested.
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Yeah the aging punk in me has always resisted valorizing “normal” as what we should be concerned about. “Normal” what people want it to be.
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Agree 100% - especially because normal is different in different places. But normal doesn't mean "right." So I like value labels.
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I hope others follow your lead on this. “Normal” is a squish word, which is why I think journalists gravitate to it ;)
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A historically low approval rating for this point in a presidency isn't a broad message? What is?
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But your earlier point said the public hasn't sent any messages of broad disapproval - and it clearly has.
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I said there hasn't been a wholesale revolt & financial markets are humming along, no reax to Trump's behavior.
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I think we should make it clear that the broad public HAS shown big disapproval. Let's not confuse that with GOP base support.
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1. I was generalizing, are caveats. 2. Repub voters, even those who disapprove of tweets, etc, are still with Trump. 3. Matters in midterms
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We shouldn't generalize at a time like this. The GOP base has stuck with him, almost no one else. For now, that's enough to protect him.
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140 characters per tweet. But noted.
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You're defining the public quite narrowly here. As in, basically Republicans. Polling shows he's well underwater with ind's and dems.
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Agree. I'm just pointing out it's significant that he's holding his party. That keeps Rs in Congress w/ him & gives GOP chance in midterms
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Hard to figure why anyone wld want to be with him after seeing him throw Sessions (& practically everyone else he deals with) under the bus.
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This doesn't seem like ordinary but it does seem broad and disapprovinghttps://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/?ex_cid=rrpromo …
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Still has most Republicans, though. And that's key.
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Republicans were never normal.
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You're not very smart
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