Today's WAPO OPED: Really good news r.e. Frump's polls and his hostility toward protesters

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/04/latest-polling-suggests-trumps-campaign-strategy-may-be-imploding/
The latest polling suggests Trump’s ugliest campaign strategy may be imploding

Opinion by Greg Sargent Columnist September 4, 2020 at 10:44 a.m. EDT

As a new wave of unrest breaks out, some commentators have cracked open their well-worn pundit handbooks and recited a trusty old trope: Violence simply must help the “law and order” candidate. It cannot be any other way, because the handbook says so: Violence must beget backlash — a craving for the candidate vowing “strength.”

But what if a public backlash is brewing against what President Trump is doing? What if many voters see Trump’s exploitation of the situation as part of the problem, and are recoiling from that? If so, this could challenge the conventional pundit playbook, and prompt a revisiting of how cycles of racial nationalism and attempts at reconciliation play out in our politics.

New polling suggests this possibility. A CNN poll finds that 58 percent of Americans say Trump’s response to the protests has been “more harmful,” while only 33 percent say it’s “more helpful.”

“When a majority is thinking that Trump is part of the problem, it is indicative that a Third Reconstruction may be underway — a multiracial movement of Blacks and Whites to put America’s racial house in order,” [/b]Gerstle tells me.

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If you read it all, it means frump's attempts at dividing americans are totally backfiring and his approval numbers all are tanking. It shows the majority also disapproves of his handling of public protests, but also on keeping america safe. It shows americans are tying 2 distinct ideas together : civil unity and civil rights, and frump is losing the entire election on those.

This reconstruction means a majority of americans are changing our feelings about racism and how our laws are reflected in our established history of american racism. This is great news. We're finally demanding our laws and practices live up to our ideology of equality and civil society.

I've been thinking through "Me, Too" and BLM that childbirth is painful, and that these are all signs of our national transformation. The red states, or course, will lag behind, but the white nationalism reaction to this reconstruction is to be expected.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Bookmarking to read again and again...a glimmer of hope prevails

[regnaD kciN]

2. But is it backfiring...?

If you look at 538, Trump’s favorablity ratings have been going dramatically upward over the past week. Granted, it being Trump, they’re still underwater, but they’re currently about as high as they’ve been for his entire presidency, and his deficit is now in single digits for the first time in a while. Fortunately, this doesn’t seem to be affecting the race itself, but I can only hope the Atlantic story takes some wind out of his sails.