With impeachment looming in the near future, I found this article interesting. It reflects the polarization and ultra high partisanship of today. It also reveals in my opinion how Trump has become a cult figure, for those who both support and oppose him. Those who support or oppose Trump are very cultish in their zeal of support or opposition.

62% of people who approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president say they can't think of anything he could do that would cause him to lose their support, according to a Monmouth University poll published Tuesday.

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The other side: Among those who disapprove of the job Trump is doing, 70% say there's nothing the president could do to gain their support.

https://www.axios.com/monmouth-poll-trump-approval-a05b8144-1d1b-4296-a0d4-6ca0390b05ee.html

Not being a political party animal, it's very hard for me to fathom the love given Trump by his supporter and the hate thrust upon him by his opponents. I seen this type of hard core feelings taking shape under Obama, where Republicans felt Obama could do no good, Democrats felt he could do no wrong. But not to the heights we see today.

Perhaps this is just the result of the political era we entered into with all its polarization and ultra high partisanship. Perhaps that is why both major parties are shrinking. More and more Americans are deserting both major parties, maybe because they don't like the polarization and partisanship that both represent and has caused.


It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.