Althouse: Trump approval improving.

September 23, 2017

Trump approval improving.

The Real Clear Politics average:

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Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Dr. KKK reminds Americans of how much Calvin Coolidge did to modernize the presidency.

Fifth and Sixth Party Systems: 1933–present

The Fifth Party System emerged with the New Deal Coalition beginning in 1933. The Republicans began losing support after the Great Depression, giving rise to Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the activist New Deal. They promoted American Liberalism, anchored in a coalition of specific liberal groups, especially ethno-religious constituencies (Catholics, Jews, African Americans), white Southerners, well-organized labor unions, urban machines, progressive intellectuals, and populist farm groups.

Opposition Republicans were split between a conservative wing, led by Ohio Senator Robert A. Taft, and a more successful moderate wing exemplified by the politics of Northeastern leaders such as Nelson Rockefeller, Jacob Javits, and Henry Cabot Lodge. The latter steadily lost influence inside the GOP after 1964.

Experts debate whether this era ended (and a Sixth Party System subsequently emerged) in the mid-1960s when the New Deal coalition died, the early 1980s when the Moral Majority and the Reagan coalition were formed, the early 1990s when Third Way emerged among Democrats, the mid-1990s during the Republican Revolution, or if the Fifth system continues in some form to the present.

Imperial Presidency is a term used to describe the modern presidency of the United States which became popular in the 1960s and served as the title of a 1973 volume by historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., who wrote The Imperial Presidency out of two concerns: that the US presidency was uncontrollable and that it had exceeded the constitutional limits.

It was based on a number of observations. In the 1930s, the president had few staff, most of them based in the US Capitol, where the President has always had an office. The Oval Office is still used when the president is in the country and not traveling, but it is most often used for ceremonial occasions, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, presidents were more regularly based there with a small staff. However, Franklin D. Roosevelt's leadership during the Great Depression and World War II changed the presidency. His leadership in the new age of electronic media, the growth of executive agencies under the New Deal, his Brain Trust advisors, and the creation of the Executive Office of the President in 1939 led to a transformation of the presidency.

Michael KKK's case doesn't need resting. It needs retiring. Just like he does. Old, entitled, ignorant and stupid is no way to go through the blogosphere.; 9/24/17, 1:51 AM
Guildofcannonballs said...: "Shut up and play!"

Some are merely jealous of a platform they can't have, and ought shut up about others shutting up, even if, yes, those others are just dumb blankety blank blanks.

When they tend their garden poorly and are highlighted for their awesome universally-respected self-love it is difficult to realize they have every right to deceive and mislead even the most innocent among us with the considered submerged millstone ultimately best for them around the neck if need be.; 9/24/17, 2:08 AM
Michael K said...: Somebody is obsessed with somebody.; 9/24/17, 8:24 AM
Bad Lieutenant said...: Quick, Chuck, read the Trump voters out of the Republican Party!

https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/09/22/voters-identify-trump-supporters-rather-republicans/

Welcome to the new state of American politics:

An NBC/WSJ poll released Thursday reveals that more Republican voters consider themselves a “supporter of Donald Trump” rather than a “supporter of the Republican Party.”
A whopping 58 percent of respondents indicated they considered themselves Trump supporters, while only 38 percent indicated they considered themselves supporters of the Republican party. 2 percent see themselves as both, while 1 percent said they were neither.

After watching the Republican "majority" being held hostage by the thoroughly loathsome John McCain for the last two months, this shouldn't surprise anyone.

Despite the Republican domination at the federal and state level, the party is a bit adrift. It is nigh impossible to quickly state what the GOP stands for anymore.

Oh nevermind it's a waste of time, Chuck never owns up when he's beat. A poor loser, our Chucky, despite all the practice he gets.; 9/24/17, 8:34 AM
Michael K said...: The Republicans seem as clueless as Democrats in figuring out where the country is going.

I have no idea what is going to happen next year.

We seem to be heading back for a replay of the 60s.; 9/24/17, 9:00 AM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Somebody is obsessed with somebody.

Well we know you're obsessed with me. You've been obsessed with me for a while.

I'm just obsessed with getting the facts right. If you actually believe that the FDR presidency did not usher in the modern American political age and modern presidency, just make a case for it. Not hard to do, if that's what you really believe. Just go cite one of your favorite books on the matter or some book or blogpost you wrote yourself on it and we'll check the accuracy of the sources.

Some of us are actually interested in how things should be successfully run - even if it's no longer 1850, or whichever date your buddies pine for.; 9/24/17, 10:35 AM
Birkel said...: I will let Tocqueville describe how you are wrong.; 9/24/17, 11:08 AM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Go for it. Anytime now, tough talker.; 9/24/17, 11:27 AM
Birkel said...: Are you a baby bird? Am I your mother? Why should I pre-chew what you refuse to swallow?; 9/24/17, 1:04 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: No, you should cite where "DE Tocqueville" says I'm wrong, asshole. If you can't find the quote, then admit it.; 9/24/17, 1:29 PM
Birkel said...: I do not take orders. Chew or don't. I care not one whit.; 9/24/17, 1:32 PM
Birkel said...: Further, I know "the point" you are making is malleable in the extreme. You have shown your dishonesty on many occasions and I wouldn't bother chasing your moving goal posts.

You are a waste, except as a target of mockery. I mock thee. I

I have yet to detect a single positive personal trait within you. You are vile, stupid and worse still: boring.; 9/24/17, 1:38 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: I do not take orders. Chew or don't. I care not one whit.

No. You can't back up what you said. You're a liar like every other rightwing loon. Just pushing your emotions with no facts to back them up.

Further, I know "the point" you are making is malleable in the extreme. You have shown your dishonesty on many occasions and I wouldn't bother chasing your moving goal posts.

Another right-winger. Another inability to cope with "context."

You are a waste, except as a target of mockery. I mock thee. I

You, what? Come on, finish whatever quote you were going to rip-off.

I have yet to detect a single positive personal trait within you. You are vile, stupid and worse still: boring.

LOL! The rightwing is nothing if not consistent in its search for what it lacks most: EXCITEMENT! So buttoned-up and uptight, they think the point of civil discourse is to bring more of all that fun that they lack into their lives! So much so, that every other trait is not as bad: Vile, stupid, etc.

Hey Birkel - how about this. If vile and stupid are ok with you but boredom is not, someone could Jame Gumb on your ass and flay you to make a woman's skin suit and that way they'll be vile and stupid and EXCITING! HAHAHAHA.; 9/24/17, 2:23 PM
Birkel said...: Did you believe, as you were typing, that any of that was interesting?; 9/24/17, 2:38 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: It was true and rational, and that's what matters more to me and to most decent people. Even if you're too irrational and dishonest to have been "excited" by it.

Go to a strip club if you need excitement. Or play laser tag. Anything but NASCAR.; 9/24/17, 2:52 PM
Birkel said...: Try not to be boring. But tell everyone when it happens so others will read what you write on that rate occasion.; 9/24/17, 3:18 PM
Birkel said...: Rare; 9/24/17, 3:19 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: So you can't even write correctly in two sentences. But act as a critic and object to the idea that would even cite what you write. And be really boring but claim that lack of excitement prevents you from being honest and addressing any actual substantive point.

Yep. I can see that you have no point. But be a sleazy, slippery weasel and complain about how it's someone else's job to entertain you instead.

Entertain your own lazy boring ass!; 9/24/17, 3:25 PM
Birkel said...: Criticism of auto-correct is boring too.

Make a substantive point, define your terms and lock yourself into a position.; 9/24/17, 3:37 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Make a substantive point -

If you're too much of a baby to cite what de Tocqueville's objection to my comment on the "modern" American presidency and political system even is, then there's nothing which you've said to which I can even respond. It's like an asshole who refuses to make a move on a checkerboard, then complaining that his opponent has not made a second move yet.

If you don't want to play the game, then leave. Go entertain yourself, before you bore everyone else.

Don't blame others for your non-participation. That's your choice.; 9/24/17, 3:46 PM
Birkel said...: What part of my longstanding position of not taking orders from others confused you so?

Are we playing the same game, in your analogy?; 9/24/17, 3:56 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: At 11:08, Boring Birkel (the rebel!) said:

I will let Tocqueville describe how you are wrong.

For five hours since then, Boring Birkel repeatedly revealed that he can't tell where or how this claim of his was actually true.

He's saying that he can't be responsible for what he says and views it as "an order" to demonstrate that he actually knows what he's talking about.; 9/24/17, 4:18 PM
Birkel said...: To which point was I pointing with that particular quote? You want so badly to believe you can manipulate me to answer you.

Only with a check that clears the bank, TTR. And I am expensive.; 9/24/17, 4:21 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: To which point was I pointing with that particular quote?

So now you can't even clarify your own point, you need me to tell you what was in your own mind?

I guess in your world this is an example of clever excitement.

Pathetic. Cowardly.; 9/24/17, 4:25 PM
Birkel said...: Do you know the rules to this particular game?; 9/24/17, 4:29 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Extending the conversation doesn't change the fact that you were defeated. And hoisted by your own petard.

I get it. You don't read de Tocqueville. You just call out to him as if you needed him to be here doing your arguing for you.

That's understandable. But still makes you an assrat.; 9/24/17, 4:32 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: I think the game is called, "See if Boring Birkel Can Even Remember What He Said. Or Why."

It's a game even he can't win. HAHAHA.; 9/24/17, 4:33 PM
Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...: Bye-bye, Boring Birkel. You're my favorite pussy.; 9/24/17, 6:31 PM