… After a firestorm of protest, Trump issued an executive order on Wednesday ending the family separation policy. But it’s not clear how much damage to his popularity and credibility has already been done, particularly among white evangelical Protestants. This group has been a bedrock of Trump’s base since he […] Read more »
Separated immigrant children move people’s hearts, but will it move their votes?
… In the latest CNN poll, 67% of Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s administration’s policy that resulted in a “significant increase in the number of young children who have been separated from their parents at the border and placed in government facilities.” The policy’s unpopularity surely played a role […] Read more »
Good News for Republicans, It’s Not 2006
For much of 2017 and early 2018, GOP consultants of a certain age would tell us that this election had the same look, feel and smell of 2006; the last time Republicans had a terrible midterm election. The President was unpopular, the Democrats were motivated and GOP members were retiring […] Read more »
Back to the Future With Party ID
It’s morning again in America. You grab your first cup of coffee, click to your favorite news site and are greeted by a new poll with a huge generic ballot spike in the congressional vote. What should your reaction be? Is it time to freak out, or calm down and […] Read more »
The Wrong Fight at the Wrong Time for the GOP
You need to hand it to President Donald Trump, his entire administration and his party. It takes more than a little chutzpah to act in a way that seems callous to the concerns of children. … If reports are correct that Trump thought the “zero tolerance” policy would help him […] Read more »
The GOP’s ‘Utterly Dysfunctional’ Strategy of Babying Its Base
With his policy of systematically separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, Donald Trump finally extended his racially infused economic nationalism to a point that a critical mass of elected Republicans could not follow. … With several polls this week showing that roughly two-thirds of Americans oppose Trump’s […] Read more »