Well ain’t this a bitch for the left wing media and riot instigators? Since Charlottesville, the media has been in total meltdown mode blaming Trump for the violence over the past weekend, even calling the terrorist attack in Spain a ‘copycat’ of Charlottesville. But the media is really sad today, as since Charlottesville, Trump approval ratings have actually been on the rise, and most people agree with what Trump said at that so called “disastrous” press conference.
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But in a repeat of myriad Trump campaign controversies, voters didn’t share the same level of outrage as the elites. The latest wave of polling shows that the president’s overall job-approval rating has inched upwards since the controversy, that a sizable majority of Americans support maintaining Confederate memorials instead of tearing them down, and that a notable minority agree with the president’s use of “both sides” language during Tuesday’s press conference.
The polling is simply the latest illustration of the gaping divide between elite opinion and the views of average Americans. It’s clear many voters don’t share the same sense of alarm about Trump as political leaders and journalists. Judging by the news coverage, you’d reasonably expect the president to have alienated the entire country with his insensitive, racially charged rhetoric. In reality, public opinion is splitting along predictable partisan lines—with Trump’s view that Confederate monuments should be preserved getting a surprising degree of bipartisan support.
Former Democratic Rep. Steve Israel put it best, writing in Newsday this week about a recent conversation he overheard at a Long Island diner. “Now they’re making a big deal about statues? Who cares about statues!” Israel recounted hearing. It’s why top Democratic strategists have urged their candidates not to talk to voters about impeachment or dwell on the hot-button issues driving media coverage.
Unless you are a Manhattan or DC elite, regardless if you are Republican or Democrat, you probably agree with at least most of what Trump said during his press cofnerence. One thing I’d like to say he did wrong was saying there were some good people at the riot in Charlottesville. No, there weren’t any good people. But white nationalists and left wing extremist groups like AntiFa and black lives matter are not good people. There are no good people in those crowds. But Trump is 100% right to call out both sides. It wasn’t only white nationalists starting up. It was the already mentioned left wing extremist groups AntiFa and black lives matter. It’s just amazing how this fact is lost on the elites in both the Democrat and Republican party. As for the idiot ‘business leaders’ who pulled out of the Trump’s business panels, they will pay wit boycott of their products and lost revenue.