I wonder how much of the drop is just Gallup reverting back from an outlier.
The North Korea Trump scam probably gave him a temporary bump but Trump will never have a high approval rating. He's too disgusting for most of this country to fathom and he only caters to his rapidly dwindling base.
December 2017 36% approval
June 2018 44% approval
Where is the dwindle?
During the 1964 election....it is estimated that Goldwater won 80% of Nixon's 1960 Republican vote share. Same with Hoover in 1932. Trump is popular only among what's left of the GOP and that isn't enough for him to ever be generally popular or win re-election. Sooner or later demographics are destiny and Trump isnt doing anything to grow his decrepit base of pissed off white Boomers and dying Silents.
Obviously his approval rating has gone up as more Americans have gotten accustomed to having a buffoon in orange clown face as president but if the best you can do is 41% with one of the lowest unemployment rates in decades then may lawd jesus have mercy upon your soul.
Bad attitude to have when it comes to elections. Just some advice.
It's true tho. You see, I think part of the reason the Democratic Party has failed so badly is because they rely too much on incoming demographic changes without caring too much for actual policy. But at the same time, eventually they do become destiny. For example, from 1869 to 1964, the city of San Francisco had 10 Republican Mayors. After 1964, there hasn't been a single one simply due to demographics.
Take for example this study on the differences in the 1994 gubentorial elections of California & Texas. In California, Republican Pete Wilson ran on a heavily anti-illegal immigrant campaign while George W Bush ran on the opposite even saying:
Now, in both the Texas and California gubentorial races, both Bush and Wilson won roughly the same amount of Latino voters:
California 1994:
Texas 1994:
But now lets look at the long-term implications of Bush and Wilson's choices:
The GOP under Trump is the blind leading the blind. All of this anti-Latino rhetoric is going to wreck the GOP in the long run. The Texas GOP still to this day benefits from Bush's work in accommodating Latino voters whereas Pete Wilson's racial demagoguery has effectively castrated his party from electoral viability. Of course...California still elected a couple of Republicans after Pete Wilson but eventually it was simply crushed in the long run.
