Your new Quinnipiac University poll is out, and there's good and bad news for fans of A Rudimentary Sense of Shame.
While half of all polled would be embarrassed to have Trump as president, the majority of that sentiment comes from Democrats and independents.
For Republicans, 44 percent would be proud to have Trump in the White House, twice as much as GOP voters who would be embarrassed. Only 4 percent of Democrats and 20 percent of independents would be proud to having Trump be president.
Not as quite a good poll question as asking Americans whether they would bomb the hell out a Disney movie, but a good one nonetheless. So what we have here is a Republican (not conservative, just "Republican") rump of 44 percent, people who have watched Donald Trump do his Donald Trump thing and who still think, as of this Tuesday, that that's how an American president should behave.
“Half of American voters say they’d be embarrassed to have Donald Trump as their Commander in Chief and most Americans think he doesn’t have a good chance in November, but there he is still at the top of the Republican heap,” Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a release.
Yes he is. It is almost as if decades of televised demagoguery has inculcated in the Republican base a notion that demagoguery is the only true qualification needed for governance. However did that happen?