Decent people are appalled
by digby
Before the election, this was flipped:
Gallup:
“According to the poll, more than half—55 percent—of Americans disapprove of the temporary travel ban, while 42 percent support the measure. And 58 percent disapprove of Trump indefinitely suspending the country’s Syrian refugee program.”
Trump overall job approval rating: 43% approve; 52% disapprove
CBS:
“In the CBS News Poll’s first measure of Mr. Trump’s job performance as president, 40 percent of Americans approve of the job he is doing -- the lowest of any president just after his first inauguration since the Gallup Poll began taking those measures in 1953. Some 48 percent disapprove.”
“Slightly more Americans disapprove (51 percent) than approve (45 percent) of President Trump’s executive order temporarily banning people from entering the U.S. from seven designated countries. Views on temporarily suspending entry for refugees are the same.”
PPP:
“52% of voters think that the order was intended to be a Muslim ban, to only 41% who don't think that was the intent. And the idea of a Muslim ban is extremely unpopular with the American people- only 26% are in favor of it, to 65% who are against it.”
Words matter. Trump came before the cameras a year ago and said he wanted the ban all Muslims until "we can figure out what the hell is going on." He can't pretend otherwise now.
It was un-American to even say it, much less do it. Maybe if more people had taken him seriously we wouldn't be where we are today.
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