They called Reagan an ‘amiable dunce.’ Now it’s Trump’s turn

69% is a retrospective judgment, at 40 years’ distance. Trump’s is that of a sitting president in the heat of his term. And by mid-July 2026, it is low: around 37% nationally, with the widest partisan gap ever recorded, some 87% among Republicans and single digits among Democrats.

That gap is enormous, but time has closed enormous gaps before. The question continue reading …