40% Of The Country Support Russia & Putin Because They Approve Of Trump.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210195722TheMastersNemesis (9,264 posts)
40% Of The Country Support Russia & Putin Because They Approve Of Trump.
It is utter madness that Trump has a 40% approval rating. Logically such support must mean that you support what the Russians did and a pro Russian agenda. Trump won't apply the sanctions. And the GOP will still support the use of Russian bots interfering in our democracy because they are denying it all and are intent on doing nothing to stop what is going on.
Or they are not insane and do not cling to a fantasy of Russian collusion as means to explain how their candidate, despite rigging the primary, active participation of the press and possibly elimates of the DOJ, FBI and State dept, still managed to lose a newcomer with zero election experience.
The same 40% probably also approve of all the obstruction that the GOP is cooperating in. Attacks on the FBI and DOJ are ok too. Add to that sending Dreamers to countries they never lived in is ok too, if you approve of Trump's job.
The fact that approval is not near zero just shows how ****ed up this country is. There is nothing that makes us great in any way with these numbers. That fact that Trump could be elected after what Bush and the GOP did before Obama could be elected is totally crazy. And then to reward the GOP after 8 years of destructive obstruction is so unconscionable.
These events only prove that the country has really gone mad in a very fundamental way. How we survive all of this chaos I do not know.
You cannot, so stop trying.
Eliot Rosewater (11,522 posts)
1. The key is they are 40% and without unconstitutional gerrymandering, unconstitutional voter ID laws
they could not have any power including the WH if we also stopped the KGB or FSB from cooperating with the GOP.
crazycatlady (2,868 posts)
6. Presidential elections are not gerrymandered
One could argue about the electoral college but a presidential election is ultimately a statewide race. Statewide races aren't gerrymandered.
Orrex (58,544 posts)
7. You're correct, but targeted, ward-specific voter suppression is well known
The "urban" ward gets too few voting machines, or older and unreliable machines, or too few polling places in areas that are inconveniently located and which are unable to accommodate long lines, etc.
So although "gerrymandered" is the wrong word in this context, the basic principle is the same: that Republicans will use any means at their disposal, legal and otherwise, to suppress turnout among likely Democratic voters.
The "urban" ward is usually in a big city that has the ability to keep polling places open longer and accommodate early voting 7 days a week.
