Approval ratings measure political preference, I mean acceptance of what Donald Trump is doing as the fully legitimate exercise of presidential powers in the name of the American people. I have no longer have faith that there is any amount of ghastly shit the Trump regime can inflict on the world before that changes. No significant amount Americans can’t be relied on to disrupt the regime, because they tolerate it: nothing Trump does is fundamentally alien to Americans’ values to the point that they can’t abide.