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Trump 2.0 isn't an absolute free fall. The man is face planning. He has clear signs of dementia. He has clear signs of losing his motor skills. He's surrounded by a bunch of absolute morons. And the American public does not like it when this man governs.

For some reason, that we'll have to deal with later, they buy his bullshit when he's campaigning.

But as soon as he gets into office, this happened with Trump 1.0.

And it's definitely happening a lot faster with Trump 2.0. People can't stand it. They cannot stand what a drama

queen this guy is, how tone deaf he is, decorating the oval, building his ballroom, while

people are absolutely losing their jobs and the economy is in a free fall. And he doesn't care. He doesn't give a shit. But the data is catching up with him. Let's watch the clip. It's pretty clear at least from a political angle that Democrats won the shutdown. Why do I say that? Well, first let's take a look at Donald Trump's net approval rating. It's way down from where it was pre-shutdown, right?

Pre-shutdown, his net approval rating was at minus 10 points.

Now it's at minus 15 points.

The lowest his net approval rating has been during his entire second term in office.

So the shutdown, it might have initially been helping Donald Trump out a little bit,

or at least his ratings weren't falling, but now his ratings have sunk to a term too low.

What about Democrats? Is there a way to measure how they may have fared?

Yeah, look at the generic congressional ballot. Pre-shutdown, they were ahead by three points.

Where are they now? They're ahead by five points. Their lead has widened. It is extended.

When you look at those who are absolutely certain to both, that is likely voters. We saw that in the

Marquette University Law School poll last week. This five point lead went to nine points.

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