It is safer to be feared than loved, observed Niccolò Machiavelli (a man who knew more of one than the other). Donald Trump may soon learn that it is safer to be hated than ridiculed.
President Trump has never enjoyed wide popularity. He began his second term with an initial approval rating lower than any other incoming president since such polling began in 1953. And that relatively low number was higher than any rating he enjoyed in his first term, when he became the only president in the history of Gallup polling to never break the 50% approval level. Yet he has remained a force to be reckoned with because he is very good at handling hostility.
But handling hate is one thing. Handling laughter is another.
As we approach the second quarter of the first year of Trump’s second term, the biggest threat to his administration’s success is coming into focus. It is not resistance. It is not revulsion. It is ridicule. The Trump administration is in danger of becoming a laughingstock.
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