Kristy Greenberg on Trump’s Low Approval Rate: Americans Don’t See an Alternative Other than People Cowering

Wallace: “Yeah, I mean, Kristy, this is the brand question that I keep trying to understand. I mean, he’s at 37 percent right now. There’s no upward push in any of the polls. Right? So he was at about 39 two weeks ago, 39 to 41. That number has dropped to 37 to 39, which is, as Sarah’s talking about, the people’s feelings about the economy and feeling like he’s distracted from the thing that they sent him there to do is making them feel bad about everything. But the brand is capitulation, right? So even if these law firms or universities don’t feel like they’ll be tainted by the ICE raids because they’re not out there with masks on their face, they are capitulating to someone of historic weakness. Why do you think that’s still happening? Like in a zombie trance kind of way?”

Greenberg: “I mean, I think on the other side, there needs to be more leadership. I mean, what we’re seeing this weekend is grassroots, people coming together to say this is not okay, but where are the leaders of the institutions to come in and defend those institutions, defend their work? I mean, we’re starting to hear some of it, but we need more. We need — I mean, again, Barack Obama coming out and calling out those law firms, calling out those universities. That was great. Do more more of that. You know, same with Jack Smith’s interview with Andrew Weissmann. I mean, it was such a breath of fresh air to hear him speak. I don’t think we had heard him speak throughout because you’re not supposed to under the rules. He was following the rules, but those cases are closed now. We can hear from you, and we can’t read your report because, at least as to the classified documents, the DoJ has been hiding that. But you can still speak. You can still defend yourself. When you only hear one side and the other side is capitulating, it just becomes skewed. And I think a lot of Americans who maybe feel like we don’t like what Trump is doing, but we’re not seeing what the alternative is other than people cowering, that’s not a very attractive alternative. So you need people to stand up. We need actual leadership to really rise to the occasion and take him on. And yes, he has the power of government, but he may not always have the power of government if we actually use our voices.”