re: #107 KGxvi

Trump shutting up actually does more bad than good. His approval numbers tick up when he shuts his pie hole.

There’s a lot going on there, but the phenomenon can be explained by reversion-to-mean and the still mostly decent macroeconomic data. I think his greatest obstacles heading into 2020 are that we’re rather inexorably sliding into a recession, which the shutdown only accelerated, and that the GOP lost its monopoly on obstructing investigations & oversight. Point being it that going forward it should be a lot easier for Democrats to goad him into making unforced errors and go on batshit insane, unhinged rants.