His approval has plummeted into the mid-30s nationally and, importantly in a recent poll, also in the critical swing states of Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, where his wafer thin victories were what pushed him past the post in the election. So the base is still with him.

But, he's also Marmite in that there's very few poll respondents in the "don't know" category as his corresponding disapproval ratings are 60+. That is making potty-trained Republicans nervous, which is why many are already equivocating on whether Trump will be their nominee in 2020 (I think the last sitting President to get a serious primary challenger was Ford, and he was essentially appointed to the job).

Plus, they have to keep their jobs in the 2018 mid-terms, where all the 435 House Representatives and 1/3rd of the Senate face re-election. With Trump writing campaign ads for the Democrats on a daily basis, Republicans are going to have to run hard away from the President in order to win back the moderate voters who are turned off by Trump.

Of course, this makes the bold assumption that the Democrats will have their s*** together, which is also a situation that changes on a daily basis. Right now, they're debating whether using the Russia scandal is a winning strategy.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Thank you. It's one of the remnants of a classical education.

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

As an interesting aside (and not to soil another thread with Trump s***), the White House put out an official statement about the death of Jerry Lewis, but nothing about the death of Dick Gregory. Probably more out of ignorance than anything else, but it's a pattern with this administration of being clueless of such things - e.g. Trump's "dog ate my homework" riff about the long-dead Frederick Douglass - likely born out of an almost total lack of diversity in the administration.

Giving them the benefit of the doubt, I suspect that they saw the reports of Gregory's death and thought..."Who?" Which is innocent, but also very damning.

#BlackComediansLivesMatter

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Lewis was a hell of a lot bigger than Gregory. I didn't even know who he was.

What's damning is the criticism. It's the kind of silly race based criticism that alienates people against the left.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Cool....I'm not a 'progressive' then. I'll regard it as a badge of sanity.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

You know, there are a lot of problems with Trump but to me....this truly isn't one of them.

In fact, the kind of people that this 'nothing' p1sses off are precisely the type of people I would love to permanently p1ss off because they p1ss me off.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)