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Trump second highest "own party approval rating" Since WWII

Hawkeye10 said:
All these efforts to separate Trump from his supporters have been a colossal failure.
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Yes there is no separation in that Trump AND his supporters are stupid ****ing morons.
 
While those numbers are appalling, I don’t think we’re factoring in the number of people who don’t identify as Republicans anymore due to the party’s embrace of Trumpism and thus wouldn’t count toward the poll. Now, I couldn’t begin to guess how many people divorced themselves from the GOP once the window-licking wing took full control of the party, but I’d venture that it’s statistically significant.
 
Honestly, approval rating would be a weird one for me for a question as it relates to Trump.

Do I more approve or disapprove of how Trump has largely handles himself and his non-policy related actions? Generally strongly disagree.

Do I more approve or disapprove of how Trump of the policies and governance related actions that Trump has taken? Well there, I actually generally agree more than disagree, though it's not nearly as strong as the above chasm. The budget was horrible, the continued push for the Congress to pass DACA isn't great, and his net neutrality actions and anti-free trade actions have been non-starters for me. On the flip side, loved the pick of Gorsuch, like a lot of the other stuff he's trying to do with immigration (though his bumbling methods of trying have been wanting), like the tax cuts in a bubble (see point 1 of my disapproval list a sentence earlier), like the ramp down on various regulations and trying to end DACA.

Then there's the political scientist in me. I recognize that disapproval of him will be taken and spun by Democrats as APPROVAL of what they're doing, and that's just not the case. My problems with him policy wise has been cases where he's acted outside of the conservative principles I care about rather than because he's not being liberal or progressive enough. And my issues with how he presents himself and his extracurricular, so to speak, is not a disapproval of the plethora of his policies I like. Yet that's how a "disapprove" vote would end up being spun.

So if I'm speaking honestly, at any given time I'm not exactly sure whether or not, if I was given a binary "approve or disapprove" in a poll like this, how I would actually answer, despite being able to firmly say there's 0 chance that I would actually cast a vote for the man in 2020.
 
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