Here’s a fantastic example of just how toxic the GOP has become. John Kasich, Ohio’s governor, has a 57% approval rating in his state, one of the highest approval ratings in the nation. And yet, because he’s seen as a centrist Republican who fought for Medicaid expansion to serve lower-income Ohioans (many of whom are in rural Trump-supporting counties) and has routinely spoken out against Trump’s policies, especially early on in the administration, nobody running to replace him wants his endorsement.
How crazy has your party become when the endorsement of an incumbent widely popular governor is seen as something to AVOID?! The GOP is still thinking they can win by actively courting the worst of the worst. On the positive side, Ohio may have a Democratic governor soon…
Whenever Kasich is mentioned by local news affiliates, the mouth breathers come out of the woodwork and their minds to attack him as a liberal, a RINO, etc. I’m not a big fan (my neighbor right across the street’s older sister is one of his aides) because of his attitude toward education and abortion, but the man isn’t left of center.
I find the way that article was written to be incredibly annoying, but I totally buy the prion analogy. I’ve often spouted something similar to anyone unfortunate enough to listen: regardless of what you think of Ronald Reagan’s presidency, I believe that the “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem” mantra has been incredibly damaging and has resulted in the inability of the current Republican party to govern.
When you have half the voting population of the country believing that the government cannot be the solution to anything and is always the problem, it is no wonder that you end up with ineffectual governance.
It is important that a president be a good role model for children, 90 percent of American voters say, but President Donald Trump is not a good role model for children, these voters say 67 - 29 percent in a Quinnipiac University National Poll released today. There is almost no gender gap in grading President Trump’s standing as a role model. Every party, gender, education, age and racial group … say the president falls short,
Well, almost all Americans:
… except Republicans … Republicans say 72 - 22 percent that Trump is a good role model for children.
One of the annoying things about our moment in history is that the blitheringly obvious has to be served up in a poll so 2/3rds of people can agree with it.
