Yes, the GOP campaign against him has been pathetically weak and embarrassingly unpatriotic.

sigh, both are so telling of the state of affairs.

Those D-Day landings were such a transparent campaign against hitler. So obvious that they were trying to remove him from power. Just embarrassing.

David Brooks op-ed this morning

I agree that the campaign against him is very transparent. We dont hide that we think his incompetemce, racism, conflicts of interest and lack of knowledge and decision making skills make him unfit for office. How is it embarrasing to want to have someone fired who clearly sucks at his job?

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Gentle reminder that either Harold or Kumar would be a million times better President than Trump.

I wonder how meaningful this data is given the steep decline in Party ID. In 2004 (first data point I could quickly find) Republican party ID was at 48 percent and in January 17 it was 28 percent. It seems that if you don't like Trump you stop identifying as Republican as opposed to voicing your disapproval. http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/Party-Affiliation.aspx

Don't think that those views are reflective of us. He's rightfully getting blasted over there too.

Yeah party approval doesn't mean as much anymore.

There are like 20% of the population that call themselves independents but lean to the GOP, how they feel about Trump would give us a better picture.

He did significantly worse than Romney amongst upper income voters, so I think a lot of those people are in that 20% that don't approve.

this white house would be hilarious if it were a sitcom and not a real thing. i'd watch.

slightly racist here, but you really can't tell if that would be Harold or Kumar, in a Harold and Kumar movie?

They had a piece on the BBC website that looked at some Trump supporters and the group that they are part of. One couple explained about the evil of fake news, and how important it is to be educated etc when considering what is fake. When pressed about where they get their info from they mentioned Breitbart, some patriot website and Facebook/Twitter. Slightly depressing really.

They count Republican and Democrat leaning independents in their party categories. Presumably that picks up some amount of those who disassociate with a party because of the current event of the day but still incline towards one, but it wouldn't pick up those who who fully drop out.

Here are two specific questions they ask to come up with the Party and leaning Party questions

Good idea. Someone should be working on a pilot right now. That would tilt Trump even more.

But on a different note, I wonder how much the secret service is liking this idea of a Trump rally this weekend. Not very much I suspect. Trump loves campaigning so much more than governing.

Dress like you are going to play a round of golf and you'll be fine. No need for a MAGA hat, imo

We are talking about the whole population (though I am unclear if people like us, some of which are not 35 years old, would be in that conversation or just olds as people over 35 actually skew more conservative than the voting public).

True, but some would just ask their friends and other people they trust who would be equally uneducated.

yea. This is what prompted that comment last night and is an insight into how they think. These people literally cannot talk about Trump. All they can do is talk about Hillary. This is a guy who liked Obama, said he was going to miss Obama and Biden as recently as Inauguration Day, and was the biggest Bernie supporter I interacted with regularly irl yet he is still this far gone.

He used "Hillary," "she," and "her" 16 times below and "Trump," "he," and "him" only 5 times.

am I the only one that interacts with this type of person regularly?

Thanks, I want that polling data to be "bad" but maybe its not.

That was so ****ing painful to read. Thankfully I don't have to interact with people like that regularly. I think I'd lose my sanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
This authoritarian propaganda technique has become one of the most common themes of talking to conservatives/Republicans.

Kal Penn (Kumar) is a notable in the Democrat establishment, left acting to work for Obama - his actual pedigree in terms of working in government is pretty good. Because of this I also think he'd be a million times better than Trump, because he actually has experience working in a Federal government.

We had one for Dubya, one of the few outright turds pushed out by Trey Parker & Matt Stone



Of course Dubya was in many ways more "haha" funny than Trump's "wow that's horrifying!" funny.

I've been following him for a while now and legit had no idea that was Kumar

One of the early interviews the Keeping it 1600 (that is now Pod Save America) people did for the Ringer was with him, its worth a listen as to why he moved out of acting and his pedigree for working in the Obama administration - the breadth of his working experience is quite extensive. His CV would take a long time to read.

There is zero common ground with anyone who supports trump. They simply must be defeated.