B******e
发帖数: 16928 | 1 This is not what his critics expected. At 49% overall job approval in the
latest Gallup poll, and with 60% approval of the way he is handling the
coronavirus epidemic, President Trump’s standing with voters has improved
even as the country closed down and the stock market underwent a historic
meltdown. That may change as this unpredictable crisis develops, but bitter
and often justified criticism of Mr. Trump’s decision making in the early
months of the pandemic has so far failed to break the bond between the 45th
president and his political base.
One reason Mr. Trump’s opponents have had such a hard time damaging his
connection with voters is that they still don’t understand why so many
Americans want a wrecking-ball presidency. Beyond attributing Mr. Trump’s
support to a mix of racism, religious fundamentalism and profound ignorance,
the president’s establishment opponents in both parties have yet to grasp
the depth and intensity of the populist energy that animates his base and
the Bernie Sanders movement.
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The sheer number of voters in open political rebellion against centrist
politics is remarkable. Adding the Sanders base (36% of the Democratic vote
in the latest Real Clear Politics poll average, or roughly 13% of the
national vote considering that about 45% of voters lean Democratic) to the
core Trump base of roughly 42%, and around 55% of U.S. voters now support
politicians who openly despise the central assumptions of the political
establishment.
That a majority of the electorate is this deeply alienated from the
establishment can’t be dismissed as bigotry and ignorance. There are solid
and serious grounds for doubting the competence and wisdom of America’s
self-proclaimed expert class. What is so intelligent and enlightened,
populists ask, about a foreign-policy establishment that failed to perceive
that U.S. trade policies were promoting the rise of a hostile Communist
superpower with the ability to disrupt supplies of essential goods in a
national emergency? What competence have the military and political
establishments shown in almost two decades of tactical success and strategic
impotence in Afghanistan? What came of that intervention in Libya? What was
the net result of all the fine talk in the Bush and Obama administrations
about building democracy in the Middle East?
On domestic policy, the criticism is equally trenchant and deeply felt. Many
voters believe that the U.S. establishment has produced a health-care
system that is neither affordable nor universal. Higher education saddles
students with increasing debt while leaving many graduates woefully
unprepared for good jobs in the real world. The centrist establishment has
amassed unprecedented deficits without keeping roads, bridges and pipes in
good repair. It has weighed down cities and states with unmanageable levels
of pension debt.
The culture of social promotion and participation trophies is not, populists
feel, confined to U.S. kindergartens and elementary schools. Judging by
performance, they conclude that people rise in the American establishment by
relentless virtue-signaling; by going along with conventional wisdom,
however foolish; and by forgiving the failures of others and having their
own overlooked in return.
The blame game playing out over how the president has handled the
coronavirus epidemic reflects the dynamics of this struggle. Mr. Trump’s
establishment critics want a narrow fight over the dismal trail of bluster,
evasions, missed opportunities and failed predictions that marked the
president’s approach to the virus earlier in the year. Like many criticisms
of Mr. Trump, these arguments against him are by and large correct and
significant and it is part of the proper job of a free press to make them.
However, Mr. Trump’s supporters are not comparing him with an omniscient
leader who always does the right thing, but with the establishment—
including the bulk of the mainstream media—that largely backed a policy of
engagement with China long after its pitfalls became clear. For Americans
who lost their jobs to Chinese competition or who fear the possibility of a
new cold war against an economically potent and technologically advanced
power, Mr. Trump’s errors pale before those of the bipartisan American
foreign-policy consensus.
The establishment’s massive, decadeslong failure to think through the
consequences of empowering Communist China and creating a trading
relationship that, among other things, left the U.S. dependent on Beijing
for pharmaceuticals is a much less excusable and more consequential error
than anything Donald Trump has done in 2020—and it has a direct bearing on
the mess we are in.
Attacks on the establishment aren’t always rational or fair. They can be
one-sided and fail to do justice to the accomplishments the U.S. has made in
the recent past. Populism on both the left and the right always attracts
its share of snake-oil salesmen, and America’s current antiestablishment
surge is no exception. But the U.S. establishment won’t prosper again until
it comes to grip with a central political fact: Populism rises when
establishment leadership fails. If conventional U.S. political leaders had
been properly doing their jobs, Donald Trump would still be hosting a
television show.
Unless the president’s opponents take the full measure of this public
discontent, they will be continually surprised by his resilience against
media attacks. And until the establishment undertakes a searching and honest
inventory of the tangled legacy of American foreign and domestic policy
since the end of the Cold War, expect populism to remain a potent part of
the political scene. | S**********p
发帖数: 331 | 2 哈哈哈哈，床铺应该赶紧学习帕尔帕廷，解散国会，自称皇帝 | c***c
发帖数: 21374 | | f********g
发帖数: 32 | 4 Wsj 到时还有活的编辑吗
【在 c***c 的大作中提到】
: 等死了几万之后，wsj可以再发一篇
| l**p
发帖数: 6080 | 5 宣布取消总统选举
【在 S**********p 的大作中提到】
: 哈哈哈哈，床铺应该赶紧学习帕尔帕廷，解散国会，自称皇帝
| c*******o
发帖数: 8869 | 6 有可能，拜登身体不如川普。
bitter
45th
【在 B******e 的大作中提到】
: This is not what his critics expected. At 49% overall job approval in the
: latest Gallup poll, and with 60% approval of the way he is handling the
: coronavirus epidemic, President Trump’s standing with voters has improved
: even as the country closed down and the stock market underwent a historic
: meltdown. That may change as this unpredictable crisis develops, but bitter
: and often justified criticism of Mr. Trump’s decision making in the early
: months of the pandemic has so far failed to break the bond between the 45th
: president and his political base.
: One reason Mr. Trump’s opponents have had such a hard time damaging his
: connection with voters is that they still don’t understand why so many
| c********6
发帖数: 370 | | c******e
发帖数: 1351 | 8 米帝民众本来就有危机时刻支持总统的传统，911后小布什支持率一度达到80%多呢，巨
巨这点还不够看 | B*******c
发帖数: 5056 | | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 10 花街日报反建制派有点滑稽，造反有理，给花街发龙虾，这就是霉国屁民的追求？ | | | n*******y
发帖数: 591 | 11 让一个虚弱杂居的国家走向极端化，加速内战瓦解的节奏。 | W*******D
发帖数: 149 | 12 版上有一群政庇老将是川普的铁粉，
【在 c********6 的大作中提到】
: 什么样的2B还会继续支持他？ 眼瞎心邪？
| a*********n
发帖数: 390 | 13 因为川普反华，华人抢了我们的工作，所以我们支持川普
就这么简单
这么多年了，什么都没变，美华还是搞不清楚，舔洋大人是没前途的。 | s******r
发帖数: 5309 | 14 您是白人至上洪波？现在都会写中文了？！
【在 a*********n 的大作中提到】
: 因为川普反华，华人抢了我们的工作，所以我们支持川普
: 就这么简单
: 这么多年了，什么都没变，美华还是搞不清楚，舔洋大人是没前途的。
| a*********n
发帖数: 390 | 15 你会贴不看帖
【在 s******r 的大作中提到】
: 您是白人至上洪波？现在都会写中文了？！
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