Janan Ganesh is another free trade loving anti-woke Financial Times columnist. He is
right about this, though.
At 39 per cent, Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating after 100 days in office of any US president since the second world war. There are two types of people in the world. There are those who will regard that terrible number as the story, and those who won’t be able to believe that it is so high. The second group have a better handle on things.
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Even if the turn in sentiment against Trump were as decisive as billed, the message would be — what? Trample the constitution, but don’t dare get the economics wrong? And in this there is liberal solace to be found, is there?
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The real lesson of the polls is one we shouldn’t need. A very large minority of voters, more than a third, are more or less unreachable. This isn’t an electoral problem for the Democrats, who can win without them, but it is a constitutional one for the US. It is hard to know how a republic is to survive such a large caucus who are loyal to their partisan team — to one man, in fact — over any rule, principle or institution of state.
He then goes into possible causes for this, which aren’t that solid.