… Democrats hate Trump more than they hated Nixon. The lowest approval rating Nixon ever saw from Democrats was 11 percent — right as he was leaving office. More than 11 percent of Democrats have approved of Trump in only two weeks of Gallup polling, including his first week in office.
Republicans love Trump more than they loved Nixon. While Nixon’s approval several times topped Trump’s among Republicans, Trump’s approval has never been lower than Nixon’s average of 74 percent in Gallup polling.
That, of course, is why Republicans on Capitol Hill aren’t headed to the White House to tell Trump that he’s in trouble. Trump isn’t in trouble, in part because there hasn’t been the sort of smoking gun on the Russia investigation that the release of Oval Office recordings were for Nixon. But more broadly, Trump’s base stands with him strongly, and congressional Republicans aren’t interested in bucking that base. CONT.
Philip Bump, Washington Post