While the establishment media types (often wearing purple ties or dresses) were gleefully proclaiming that president Trump’s statements in the aftermath of the Charlottesville tragedy put his presidency at the tipping point, Trump’s popularity rose 4 percentage points according to Gallup’s daily tracking poll, the vast of majority of the public in favor of his statements after Charlottesville, that both sides were at fault (actually the authorities too), and a solid majority in favor that the Confederate statues stay up.
