Not a Deal Breaker for Supporters this Time Either

[struggle4progress]

By SABRINA TAVERNISE
AUG. 19, 2017

... Sixty-seven percent of Republicans said they approved of the president’s response to the violence in Charlottesville last weekend, compared with just 10 percent of Democrats, according to a CBS News survey conducted over the past week.

It’s an indication of what now seems an almost immutable law of the Trump presidency. There are signs that Mr. Trump’s support among Republican leaders and some Republican voters is weakening. But in an increasingly tribal America, with people on the left and the right getting information from different sources and seeing the same facts in different ways, it reflects the way Mr. Trump has become in many ways both symbol and chief agitator of a divided nation.

Moral outrage at Mr. Trump’s response to Charlottesville continues to glow white hot, but it has a largely partisan tinge ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/19/us/politics/trump-supporters.html

[Squinch]

1. So now can we finally accept that they are what they have told us they were all along?

Racist, sexist idiots.

[ProudLib72]

2. And you wonder where the "two sides" business comes from?

It's really unsurprising. And it is going to take a hell of a lot more than a single black president to turn all of these idiots' opinions around. Can you imagine that these people viewed Obama with as much disdain (maybe more) as we view tRump?

[madaboutharry]

3. Poor Richard Painter

Richard Painter is a law professor and a republican who is a frequent guest on MSNBC. He despises Trump with a deep simmering rage. He keeps talking about throwing all the racist and haters out of the party. I think he has a fantasy of President Eisenhower coming back from the dead and bringing back the party of yesteryear. The GOP has been hijacked by racists and right wing nut jobs. That isn't going to ever change.