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| Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll |
Is Trumpism here to stay? Undoubtedly. Let's take a trivial example, that of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. Secretary of State for the Department of Health and Human Services. He may be an anti-vaccine lunatic and conspiracy theorist, and he may have said (and did) in his congressional confirmation hearing that Medicaid, which provides health coverage to more than 72 million Americans, covers more than 30 million babies and that Medicaid beneficiaries are unhappy.
In fact, only 1.5 million babies are covered, and 89 percent of beneficiaries say they are satisfied with Medicaid. Yet JFK Jr.'s nonsense, as well as the nonsense of his colleagues, had no discernible effect on Trump supporters, for whom facts are less relevant than faith. That's what one might conclude from the 45 percent of likely voters, just 5 percent below the total approval rating, who told the Rasmussen Reports poll that they think the country is headed in the right direction.