“Perhaps what Trump understood from the beginning is that practically nobody liked Republicans, or the Republican Party, to begin with. People didn’t like the GOP platform, so Trump ran against it. People didn’t like GOP politicians, so Trump insulted them rather than play the suck-up game. … About 60 percent of Americans view the Republican Party with distaste, according to a polling average …. In one recent survey, more than a third of Republican primary voters had a negative view of their own party.” — The Atlantic
(Read story here.) It occurs to me that any management team who did this to their company’s reputation would be sacked long before it got this far. But at least it’s encouraging to see signs of a rational public: After years of despicable behavior, the GOP is, in fact, despised by nearly everyone.