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Buried deep inside new CNN poll is the most brutal news yet for Trump

alternet.org · 12dShare

A new CNN poll released this week shows the damage done to the Republican Party, but buried in its pages are questions about President Donald Trump's stability. The New Republic's Greg Sargent wrote in a column Thursday that many of the issues about Trump personally haven't popped up in polling data. Polls typically stick to questions about approval, disapproval and political policies rather than whether he's mentally and physically capable of handling the job. This one asked about Trump's well-being, disconnectedness, sharpness and other personal traits. Sargent has decided to call this "Late Stage Trumpism." "The 'personalist' aspects of Trumpian rule—the shaping of much of the government and even the physical capital of Washington, D.C., around one man’s relentless self-dealing and self-aggrandizement—have all started imploding in on themselves, in a collapsing supernova of venality and megalomania," the long-time political columnist said. Poll after poll has shown just how bad Trum

First report: We’ve Officially Entered the Twilight of Late-Stage Trumpism — newrepublic.com, 12d