While Trump’s approval rating varies between 36 to 42%, his strong support, the voters that will be with him no matter what, is only about 25%.  Those who strongly disapprove of him seem to hover just above 40%.

The questions as to why his significant disapproval rating seems to come from several different perspectives: First, his often aggressive, egotistical personality is a big turnoff to many. Although very little supports the allegations that he a racist and a homophobe, he is often branded as both. The charges that he is a male chauvinist and a philander does carry some credibility. Add to that he is a rich, white male who was a Democrat, then ran and won the Presidency, as a Republican and has already crossed party lines to get what he wants. Politically he is a novice and the establishment in Washington shuns those who ‘come to town’ to change things without paying their dues.

Although these factors carry weight, the two outcomes that mattered most are: He beat Hillary Clinton--- the preordained next president, who campaigned on more of the same. And he said ‘no’.  No to undocumented border crossings. No to almost unchecked immigration policies. No to trade deals with foreign countries where the U.S. always seemed to end up holding the short end of the stick.  No to regulatory control that has almost paralyzed this country’s ability to compete in world commerce.  No to a healthcare delivery system where the costs are running amuck. And finally no to a taxing system that is prohibitively complex and was used by the last administration to further its own agenda.

Trump so charged up his base that were fed up with the goings on, or lack of, in Washington, they elected an outsider.

But why Trump and not numerous others who were past candidates for president of both major political Parties that promised change? Why now? First, he campaigned at a pace that put most other past candidates to shame. And, he used his base of his only 25% loyalists to get out the vote.

Trump’s unexpected win came at a time when this democratic republic was on the verge of succumbing to the whims of a globally run democracy. About the time the original 13 states adopted their new Constitution, in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, said this about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2000 years prior:

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a loss of fiscal responsibility, always followed by a dictatorship. The average of the world's great civilizations before they decline has been 200 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith,

From spiritual faith to great courage,

From courage to liberty,

From liberty to abundance,

From abundance to selfishness,

From selfishness to complacency,

From complacency to apathy,

From apathy to dependency,

From dependency back again to bondage."

According to Alexander Tyler’s prediction, this country is into the apathy to dependency stage. The next stage would be reverting into bondage--- a slave state dependent on others for its governance. Globalism is defined as the policy of placing the interests of the entire world above those of individual nations. As far off as that might sound, this country may be only one administration away.

No wonder so many people on the left and right are against Trump. Saying ‘no’ isn’t very popular!