And Yet They Support Him

Created
Fri, 20/12/2024 - 09:00
Updated
Fri, 20/12/2024 - 09:00
Here’s the poll: A majority of Americans oppose Donald Trump’s plans to use the U.S. military to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, to instruct the U.S. Justice Department to investigate his political rivals and to pardon rioters charged with breaking into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a nationwide Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. Even larger majorities of Americans oppose Trump’s plans to jail reporters for writing stories he doesn’t like and having police use force against anti-Trump protests. The survey of 1,251 Americans was conducted weeks after Trump’s victory and sought to examine public sentiment about positions espoused by the president-elect that challenge democratic principles and strain constitutional norms, as well as views on the legitimacy of American elections after Trump’s win. Trump has claimed a broad mandate for his proposals and has selected cabinet secretaries and other executive branch officials who have expressed eagerness to carry them out. But the poll results indicate that Americans reject many of the proposals that experts say could erode the guardrails that help keep presidential power in check. I think Serwer’s got it right. People told themselves he wouldn’t really do any of the things he said he was going to do. It was just a show. He’s just owning the libs! No more tampons on boys bathrooms! No more schools doing transgender surgery! Hahahaha! What they are getting instead is a possible government shutdown because Elon Musk objected to the bipartisan deal and once Trump came off the golf course…