The revenge of the 'great unwashed'.

The liberals are still at it. Bashing Donald Trump every chance they get. Other politicians have popularity ratings but Trump had a disapproval rating of 61% to 37% just before he was elected. Two weeks after he was elected it has improved to 46% to 46%. Meanwhile, Barack Obama has a popularity rating of 56% in the week of November 14-20. Obama campaigned vigorously for Hillary Clinton and against Trump. In August, Obama said about Trump,"The Republican nominee is unfit to serve as president. He keeps on proving it." Obama even tried to make it a referendum on his achievements by saying,"My name may not be on the ballot, but our progress is on the ballot." The people gave their opinion on his achievements. It was negative. Why? If 56% of people approve of him, surely it is because of his policies, and not his looks. However, at this point in his presidency Bill Clinton had a popularity rating of 63%. This was despite all the sleaze about Monica Lewinsky and her blue dress. What helped Obama in 2008 was the popularity rating of George W Bush at a dismal 29%. But Obama's average rating at 48 is lower than that of George W Bush at 49.4 and even Richard Nixon at 49.1. Perhaps, a lot of Obama's popularity comes from blacks, 95% of whom voted for him in 2008, because he is black, and he got 66% of those between 18-29 years of age, who tend to be liberal. Again 93% of blacks and 60% of 18-29 years of age voted for him in 2012. Trump's opinion of Obama is not very high. "He's a terrible president. He'll probably go down as the worst president in the history of our country. He's been a total disaster," he said. The people may not agree with that assessment of Obama but they did not show much appreciation of his policies either when they voted for Trump, despite holding their collective noses. That must say something. Hillary Clinton's biggest blunder was to have served as Secretary of State in Obama's first term so she could not distance herself from his policies. Even African Americans did not turn out for her. Republicans kept hammering on that. "America deserves better than a third term of Obama-Clinton policies," said RNC Chairman, Reince Priebus. Trump has picked Priebus as his White House Chief of Staff. Obama was so sure of his superiority that when asked to imagine Trump giving the State of the Union address he said,"Well, I can imagine it in a 'Saturday Night' skit." Even now liberals seem unable to understand why Trump won. They dismiss his supporters as white trash, forgetting that they have a right to be heard with respect and are abusing Trump's picks as evil. They forget that their contempt for the people lost them both hoses of the Congress. That is the problem with democracy. The 'great unwashed' may not be dismissed.