The BS! It's Everywhere!

The Gist

Peach Fish Productions

News, Daily News

4.5 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On The Gist, President Trump's high approval ratings aren't as significant as they seem. America is a playground for the rich, and that's in good part because of the expansion of lobbying that started in the 1970s. Steven Brill lays out the many ways in which power begets power in Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall—and Those Fighting to Reverse It. In the Spiel, keeping track of Trump's bullshit claims is truly God's work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit materials.
0:07.2	It's Tuesday, July 24, 2018, from slated to the gist I'm Mike Pesco,
0:11.8	the Poles are in and they're widely being misinterpreted.
0:15.8	Not totally a bad week for Donald Trump because
0:19.5	Paul Suggesti is more popular than ever.
0:21.5	Actually, they don't as your co-host will soon make clear.
0:24.8	A new Wall Street Journal NBC poll shows 88% of Republican voters
0:28.9	like what Mr. Trump is doing.
0:30.4	That's one of the highest job approval ratings incidentally since George W. Bush.
0:34.4	Since George W. Bush, who was, of course, the last Republican president,
0:38.6	kind of stands to reason that Trump will be the most popular among Republicans since then.
0:43.2	But what these polls are saying isn't that he's popular,
0:46.4	although we got a concede that there have been points in his presidency that he's been less popular than he is now.
0:52.7	He's still underwater, as they say in terms of popularity.
0:55.8	What the polls really show is that he's remarkably popular among Republicans
1:00.7	as the meat-to-press podcast, the lid, explains.
1:04.4	So what's going on here?
1:05.5	See?
1:06.2	Yes, he's got a stronger hold on his base than ever.
1:09.4	But his numbers with independence are getting worse and they're getting worse fast.
1:14.8	Just 36% of independence approve of the job Trump is doing,
1:18.0	which is down a whopping seven points since last month.
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