I’m fascinated with the breakdown of the popularity polls on Donald Trump. The left-leaning news media keeps using the adjective “plummeting” to describe it, but for the last as long as I can remember it’s “plummeted” to the same number between 30% and 40%.
That constant 30-plus percent represents the core MAGA constituency. The Economist breaks out polling numbers by demographic, so, for example on the war with Iran where the overall approval rating is low, around 20% or so, the approval rating is 92% amongst MAGA folks, despite electing him to keep us out of foreign wars, which made me think we’ve got the “No Kings” thing wrong. He’s not a king to them, he’s a god. This is not about logic and the Constitution and all that. It’s about divine right.
This is exactly as it is Iran, where a percentage of the people actively support their regime and its theocracy. And in Israel where a percentage actively support their theocracy. And then there’s the Catholics who follow the Pope.
Does anyone remember the Discworld books? They were science fiction satire books with an interesting premise, that there were gods, and they had power, but their power was based on how many people believed in them. So they were always at war with each other trying to get more believers.
Well Pete Hegseth has it right then, this is about Protestant Christians, and our Christian god struggling with the Catholic’s Christian god (which for some reason is advocating peace) and Allah, clearly aligned with evil (we think), and the Jewish god who loves Israel the best. Let us all pray. (prey?)
Dennis C. Merritt
Shelburne Falls