The Impeach-O-Meter is a wildly subjective and speculative daily estimate of the likelihood that Donald Trump leaves office before his term ends, whether by being impeached (and convicted) or by resigning under threat of same.
Our man’s approval rating is soaring! Per FiveThirtyEight’s approval poll aggregator, he’s almost up to the point of being a regular unpopular president rather than a historically despised one:
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Wha’ happen? A new NBC/WSJ poll indicates that the public was impressed when Trump rejected the typical Republican approach to budgeting—namely, shutting down the government for no reason while threatening to create an economic catastrophe by defaulting on the national debt—in favor of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer’s plan to not do that:
Not ruining things on purpose is apparently a better political move than praising the patrons of a white-power torch rally as “some very fine people.” Who knew?
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