Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Monday, March 15, 2021

The One Norm He Abided By (Though Not By Choice)

 Donald Trump has disappeared. It would be premature to say he's gone for good, but he's disappeared from our daily consciousness. The Twitter ban broke his hold over the news cycle and ousting the caudillo from the White House deprived him of the pomp that all caudillo's require. Hopefully, (what's taking them so long?) the Southern District of New York will file charges and we will really see him slink into Beta territory.

Meanwhile, CBS News/YouGov did a poll (I know, I know). Biden's job approval? It's at 62% with 36% - plurality - strongly approving. Biden rates a 67% on handling Covid very well or somewhat well. Distributing the vaccine? He comes in at 69%. Biden gets 60% approval on the economy. Those are numbers Trump could never have dreamed of. Even accounting for the quirkiness of polls in the age of Trump, those numbers are striking.

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