[Vision2020] Fwd: 39% think Trump is an Idiot

[Nicholas Gier]

Over the last week (May 8-12, 2017), Quinnipiac University asked Americans
<https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2456> for the first
word that comes to mind when they think of President Trump. The answer
given more times than any other was “idiot,” followed by “incompetent” and
“liar.”
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  <https://twitter.com/pbump>Given the above sentiment, there’s little
surprise that Trump is down to a 36 percent approval rating in the
university’s latest national poll. The mark sits just one percentage point
above the 35 percent approval rating he got on April 4, his lowest since
taking office.

It’s not just the approval rating. Every number in this poll is bad. The
majority of Americans say Trump is “not honest,” lacks leadership skills,
doesn’t care about average Americans, is not “level-headed,” and does not
share their values. On the economy, immigration, foreign policy, and
terrorism, more Americans disapprove than approve of the job he’s doing.
Perhaps the most revelatory number in this poll, which shows that Trump is
floundering even in the eyes of his fans, is his support among white men.
Approval amongthis bedrock group for Trump dropped below 50 percent in the
past week, with only 48 percent of white men saying the president is doing
a good job. Forty-six percent disagreed.

And that’s not even the poll result that would most enrage Trump. This is:
When it comes to who Americans trust to tell them the truth, 57 percent say
the media wins out over Trump.

-- 

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.

--Immanuel Kant





-- 

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they
shall never sit in.

-Greek proverb

“Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity.
Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance
from another. This immaturity is self- imposed when its cause lies not in
lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use it without
guidance from another. Sapere Aude! ‘Have courage to use your own
understand-ing!—that is the motto of enlightenment.

--Immanuel Kant
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