A year ago, President Donald Trump spoke as though the American people had just delivered him a landslide for the ages.
“America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” he said shortly after Election Day in November. He said in his inaugural address in January that his win showed how “the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda.”
Trump’s claims were vastly overstated at the time. But a year later, they’re virtually impossible to reconcile with Trump’s reality.
Indeed, Trump’s support now appears as shallow as ever.
While plenty have focused on his declining overall approval ratings, perhaps the better measure of Trump’s political power is those who strongly approve of him. After all, so much of his political stature is built on his domination of the GOP base; it’s how he keeps his party in line.
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