What Will it take?

The events of last week–Cohen, Manafort and Trump's accountant being given immunity–have caused the members of the chattering class that appear on the endless daily panels to claim that an "inflection point" has been reached and the end is insight for Donnie. They really like that term" inflection point". In fact, donnie's approval rating has hardly been affected.

We had over the weekend the death of John McCain. It is useful to compare McCain to Trump, particularly since McCain left instructions that Trump  not attend his memorial services. That was a good idea because if Trump were to attend and speak he would probably say something along these lines." McCain was taken prisoner in the Vietnam War and was unable to contribute to the war effort. He also ran unsuccessfully twice for president. I only ran once and had an overwhelming victory and also had the highest ratings ever for a reality TV show."

All we need to do is keep in mind two memories and images. The first is John McCain during the campaign telling one of his supporters at a rally that Barack Obama was" not an Arab but was a decent man, a family man." This second is Donald Trump at his endless rallies, which have not stopped, cheering on his supporters as they chant "lock her up". We might also remember how he demeaned and belittled all of his primary opponents.

It is hard to characterize or categorize his current supporters. It is relatively easy to understand why diverse people voted for him. His opponent was highly flawed and ran in a bad campaign. He made extravagant promises with no substance and falsely portrayed himself as some sort of populist. Inevitably there is a block of voters who want" change". His current level of support however  is not as easy to explain. He has demonstrated that he is not a populace and continues to lie about his nonexistent programs for the benefit of the middle and lower class. It should be obvious he is lying and always did. He is definitely not a conservative and real conservatives such as George Will despise him. He is certainly not a liberal or progressive. He undoubtably has support from people who we could label plutocrats or maybe more accurately kleptocrats driven largely by greed and self-interest. So, it appears his supporters are those who are either too ignorant or lazy to look at what he is and does or simply those are driven by greed and self interest.

The polls suggest that a majority a voters disapproval him and believe him to be a liar. That doesn't mean that the Democrats will win elections. First there are gerrymandered congressional districts. Second, the Senate is a totally unrepresentative body, in which States generally backing trump are highly overrepresented. The Democrats have a lot of work to do. They need to beat the drums exposing trump and offer better policies and programs of their own, such as job training and infrastructure building. They had better get to work and forget about inflection points.