Democratic Last Resorts: The Recall Option

Some five weeks into the Presidency of Donald J. Trump, a Gallup poll shows him with a historically low approval rate—about forty per cent, far worse than any predecessor at this point in his Administration since Gallup began asking the question, in 1953, at the start of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s first term. It’s predictably Trumpian, then, that his response to that embarrassing measure of unpopularity was yet another goofy tweet, this one calling for a rally of his supporters: “It would be the biggest of them all!” Perhaps he thinks a big, obedient crowd might lessen the rage that he’s managed to unleash from his non-supporters—a significant majority—almost from the moment of his swearing-in.

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