Who’s Out Of Touch?

 People have taken to the streets in record numbers TWICE within a month’s time. But all that matters are Trump’s approval ratings.

People in ruby red America are going to town halls and standing outside in mass numbers because there’s no room for them all, demanding due process for immigrants and asking why Congress is letting the President do whatever the hell it is he’s doing, demanding answers of GOP politicians they’ve re-elected for years, or just elected five months ago. But all that really matters are Trump’s approval ratings.

Musk and Trump realize they have to move faster and break more things before the courts stop them and even GOP Senators go from refusing to defend the idea of sending American citizens to foreign prisons and begin to challenge Trump in the Senate chamber, where words matter, but all that matters is how the public feels in September, according to how they answer poll q questions then.

That, at least, is the insightful analysis of former Bill Clinton adviser Doug Sosnick, who thinks the real question facing the country is whether Trump is subject to the laws of “political gravity,” and how, and if, they will finally affect him:

“Mr. Trump will probably be subject to the same laws of political gravity," Sosnick added, "but he risks an even steeper fall in job approval by early September because of a combination of factors, some of which he shares with his predecessors and some of which are unique to his presidency."

You see, we gotta wait for the polls to know if Trump’s in trouble or not. The polls are the Delphic Oracle of the Vox Populi, and without the high priest pollsters to interpret them, we can’t know what the entrails of the questions and answers mean. Or how Trump is doing. What he is doing, is not even an interesting subject of discussion.

I’ll retire to Bedlam.