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Yesterday, I made the case that the knee-jerk conventional wisdom that the violence in LA would help Donald Trump politically was wrong. Today, I got some ammunition for that argument.
The coverage of these events has gone as expected. If you flipped on cable news Monday morning, you probably heard a familiar refrain: the tougher Trump looks on immigration, the better it is for him politically.
… Fresh YouGov data released this morning tests that proposition directly, and the results are not friendly to the White House. When U.S. adults were asked if they approved of deploying the National Guard and Marines to LA, for example, nearly a majority said no, and only 34-38% said yes:
These numbers are significantly more negative than Trump's approval on immigration (+3 in my average today). This suggests voters are not seeing the issue purely through the lens of immigration, as the conventional wisdom suggests.
As Morris points out, there is not much public sympathy for the protesters (though at 36/45 approval, it’s higher than I expected); but the bottom line here is that Trump’s deployment of the uniformed military to American streets to deal with largely peaceful protests is, for now, hardly a political winner.
They’re Not That Smart
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