Just saw Trump's poll numbers on Fox.com. They're starting to slide downward, which I'm sure he doesn't care that much about. But, of more concern to me was a couple of polls the article cited that had R's approval >90% and D's approval <10% with I's around 45% approval.
I would not have expected even reasonably bad numbers from the opposition party in these types of polls. I know that there is a huge divide between the two main parties but this is unhealthy. One side always disagrees with the other so the party in power is always going to be labeled as 'fascists' or 'anti-democracy' or 'would-be king' or 'Socialist/Communist', globalist, Far Left wacko, etc. The Dems will have their day again and you can bet they'll EO the country to death and push through a bunch of things that R's hate and then the polls will, once again, have a huge gulf between the two sides. It really does look like there are two entirely different countries inside the US now. One is hellbent on Socialism and open borders and 100% EV and identity politics to the nth degree while the other is pro Capitalism, pro life, sovereignty of the US, 'all of the above' on energy including fossil fuels, two genders, etc.
Our political system is very sick. There is no middle ground any more in US politics and that tells me the system is critically sick. There is no compromise possible when the two sides are miles apart. How and who can fix this problem is anyone's guess. But, it's not a healthy political system as designed under our Constitution to have the two main parties almost always 180 degrees apart on every issue. How can our government function and provide for the greatest good to the most US citizens if half of the population is totally opposed to whatever is happening on any issue?
It, this huge, seemingly unbridgeable divide, began, imo, with W. Bush, accelerated exponentially under Obama and has continued on a quite steep upward slope since. I believe this is bad for the country. Perhaps the only true solution is a major 3rd party that is truly centrist: left of center, typically, on social issues and right of center on fiscal issues (I realize there is always an overlap). Otherwise, we're so polarized now and becoming more so, there is no long term future for our present political system, imo. We'll eventually tear ourselves apart into two or more separate countries.