William Southold | Opinion Columnist |The Southold Report
“Speaking fiction to power one story at a time.”
Polls are trending down for President Trump right now, in the wake of the Ukraine scandal and it’s subsequent lead up to an impeachment investigation, if not ultimately to a vote in the Senate. YouGov, Emerson College, Investor’s Business Daily and the ABC/Washington Post collaboration all bear this out. His approval rating is slipping. Nancy Pelosi has picked up a little swagger in her pumps.
This, along with Trump’s claims of “Fake News” and his increasing belittlement of his detractors are sending this Trump Train to it’s inevitable destination. But it’s this last, Trump’s own personal style, that will ultimately do him in.
How do I know this? I have none other than one of the most astute political observer’s direct word on it.
The other night my wife and I were watching TV, and the news was about to come on. That’s always the signal these days for her to get up and harrumph her way out of the room. She won’t sit and watch it with me anymore, not since Trump became almost the leading story in every broadcast, and that’s going back a while. If you find yourself behind her on the grocery store check out line you will not see Trump's mug staring out at you from the magazine rack. She has turned them face in.
But last night she said something upon her departure that really made me think.
“You know," she said, "there is not one person in my personal life that I would care to hear from if they always talked about themselves, took credit for everything other people do, and belittled others, especially the less fortunate. I would write those people OFF!”
As I thought about it, I had to agree with her. Not one person in my life either. I also thought this sentiment surely has to be a common one. This has become the reason Trump’s approval rating is slipping, and it may well lead to his impeachment, or defeat in 2020.
Deep down, people don’t like him. Democrats can’t stomach him. Republicans, I predict, will increasingly have trouble controlling their burps.
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