One political sin is unforgivable
Donald Trump’s ineptness as a politician is shattering the public’s confidence in his skill as a chief executive.
Writing in the Aug. 10 The Atlantic, co-author Peter Wehner reports on a survey from the Democratic pollsters Douglas Schoen and Carly Cooperman.
According to Wehner, the survey was conducted shortly after the election. By an 11-point margin, independents said they would be less confident that the Trump administration would share accurate information compared with the Biden administration. Yet, by a 10-point margin, those same voters said that they thought the Trump administration would be more effective at getting things done.
“Americans already understood Trump to be corrupt and proved themselves willing to tolerate that,” Wehner argues. “But now they are coming to believe that he is inept. In American politics, that is an unforgivable sin.”
Trump, of course, denies he's inept.
A.F. Benson
Aurora