Democrats, progressives, and Trump critics now seem to understand that President Trump’s base is rock-solid. Those who have stood with him for this long are not going abandon him ever, for any reason.
But what these Trump antagonists may not fully appreciate is that for all of the things he’s said and done since he took the oath of office 21 days ago—which they see as wrong-headed and mean-spirited—support for him does not seem to have slipped by any measurable degree. He won the election with 49.8 percent of the vote. The new CBS/YouGov poll shows him with a 53 percent approval rating.
When Trump defeated then-Vice President Kamala Harris, there were enough voters who were either disappointed or angry with Harris and President Biden that Trump not only nearly won a majority, but also carried every swing state and made inroads into groups that heretofore had been solidly Democratic. If the Biden-Harris administration had accomplished even half of what they see themselves as having accomplished, either Biden or Harris would have won with several points to spare. But voters
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