Two great quotes from Ezra Klein

Nothing predicts presidential popularity like a strong economy. And yet in November 2018, Trump is less popular at 3.7 percent unemployment than Obama was in November 2010, when unemployment was 9.8 percent. That’s a tremendous political failure, and it should be seen as such.

Trump’s continued political survival is so unlikely that he’s often graded on a steep curve. It’s like watching a dog make pancakes: Who cares if the pancakes are good? When his stratagems work, or simply seem to work, he’s heralded as a genius. When they don’t, he rarely absorbs the blame another politician would face