24 Mar 2016 6:16 pm
The only political entity less popular than Congress and the GOP? Donald J. Trump.
When the pollsters Selzer & Co. recently surveyed Americans for Bloomberg, they sought opinions on a number of people and organizations. And the Republican Party was not the least popular!
I mean, you may have guessed that, since obviously the party would still be more popular than Congress, which basically everyone hates.*
But there is someone even less popular than the Republican Party and less popular than Congress.
That person is Donald Trump.
Trump's negative ratings are driven by the 53 percent of Americans who view him "very unfavorably" — the stronger of the two options for "unfavorable."
For reference, only about a third of Americans hate Congress that much.
But half of the country gives Trump the worst rating it possibly can.
* Except not really! Seriously, 6 percent of the country has a "very favorable" opinion of Congress. And since 6 percent of the country is nearly 20 million people, that means some people who don't directly work for Congress must actually think it's doing a good job. Or are incorrigible liars, which is also possible.