I don't often link to left-wing sites. However,
RealClearPolitics drew my attention to a
Slate article which makes the point that everyone running for president is disliked by more than half of respondents. Its title:
Any Democratic Nominee Will Be Despised by Half the Country
Here's part of its summation:
If you look at RealClearPolitics aggregates ... the three leading Democrats, despite being about equally underwater, are less underwater than Trump. So it’s not that they can’t win, but they probably can’t win by a lot, in part because Trump put the finishing touch on the post-1960s realignment of the two major parties into coherent halves of the ideological spectrum by making anti-immigrant sentiment a more salient part of political identity and winning white-working-class onetime Democrats to the GOP. Functionally, this means there is no single nation available to be unified.
And author Ben Mathis-Lilley concludes:
Democrats can win the presidential election. Then the Democratic president will probably settle at a low approval rating that will either rise above 50 when he or she is reluctantly reelected in 2024, or never rise above 50 at all, in which case there will be a Donald Trump Jr. administration. And most people will hate him too.
The bottom line is that today running for high office isn't a route to widespread approbation, you're more apt to end up being disliked. Trump seems to thrive in this hostile environment, I speculate it's part of his Noo Yawk legacy.
