By Warren Kinsella, Huffington Post |
“He’s doing what he said he was going to do. Let them protest.”
By Warren Kinsella, Huffington Post |
“He’s doing what he said he was going to do. Let them protest.”
The unlikely scene: a drinking establishment somewhere in the Dominican Republic. Two American men are perched on stools at the bar, watching a satellite TV report — from Long Island, New York, of all places — showing footage of multiple American protests about Donald Trump’s Muslim ban.
One of the American men had said: “He sure is stirring up a lot of shit.” His drinking buddy, as noted, is undaunted. (I, meanwhile, am listening in, pretending to be waiting for a drink for my wife that has already been delivered.)
The indifferent one shrugs and pulls on his beer. He grunts. “I don’t have a problem with it.”
Neither, as it turns out, do the majority of Americans.
When I returned to my thirsty spouse, I checked the Internet. You can do likewise, and this is what you’ll find.
Reuters/Ipsos:
The two firms polled a bunch of Americans right after the Unpresident attached his signature to the now-infamous executive order banning travel from seven Muslim countries. Half — 49 per cent — agreed or strongly agreed with what Trump had done. Only 41 per cent disagreed. A third said it actually made them feel “more safe.” And get this: 52 per cent of self-identified Democrats agreed with Trump’s move.
Quinnipiac University:
There, the same sort of depressing results: 48 per cent with Trump, 42 per cent against. Said the pollsters: “American voters support suspending immigration from ‘terror prone’ regions, even if it means turning away refugees from those regions.”
Rasmussen:
In this one, Trump did even better. In the wake of the decision, Rasmussen found that a whopping 57 per cent of Americans agreed, some strongly, with what the Groper-in-Chief had done. Only 33 per cent were against it. The Daily and Sunday Express in Britain headlined that the Rasmussen results were “a shock.”
But they’re not. Not to anyone who has been paying attention, anyway.