Poll: The Joke’s On You America
Via James Gibney for Bloomberg
Judging by a just-released poll from the Pew Research Center, President Donald Trump is heading to next week's G-20 meeting in Germany with a resounding global vote of no confidence.
Only 22 percent of more than 40,000 respondents from 37 countries had confidence in Trump doing the right thing regarding world affairs; 64 percent felt that way about Barack Obama at the end of his presidency. The only countries preferring Trump were Israel and Russia.
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Well done Mr. H, quoting your missive…
“Opinion polls are a far cry from policies and actual results. Although previous Pew polls showed a dramatic rebound from the years of George W. Bush to those of Obama, all the world’s problems hardly went away”
History is indeed a Fickle thing. What you’re witnessing here with all of this anti status quo sentiment from around the globe is an actual reset of what American exceptionalism is all about.
It’s going to be an exciting Adventure and, make hash of what you will, the world simply isn’t [currently] comfortable with changes happening at the rate that the Trump Administration is clearly pushing. That discomfort of course translates into to a gap or lack in confidence.
All this is actually remarkable news and certainly more indicative of heading in the right direction than as suggested in this otherwise exceptional article.
Carry on Sir!
I think a metaphysical foundation for both American and exceptionalism is needed before one can throw out that vocabulary. Otherwise you are susceptible to being accused of positing an ultra nationalistic view, which is at best acrcaic.