It's so strange seeing people tap dance around the obvious connection between cities "opening up" and a spike in their formerly-declining cases of COVID-19. European nations have managed to bring the number of cases way, way down but America ain't so good at this "sacrifice" stuff. I suspect there's a way to have both — to open things up a bit and have some businesses up and functioning — while still flattening that curve but it would involve everyone admitting that the threat is real and that it isn't all about, as Tucker Carlson insists, Democratic leaders trying to take away all our freedoms. It feels like some of us are going to be in our fortresses of solitude for a long time.
The latest PBS NewsHour/NPR/Marist poll says that 58% of Americans disapprove of Trump's job while in office. This includes 49% of Americans overall who say they strongly disapprove. That last number is probably more interesting. Those who disapprove might be cajoled into approving but those who "strongly" disapprove are probably ungettable. And more interesting are the numbers in the so-called "swing" states. Nate Silver thinks Pennsylvania may be out of Trump's reach now and it would be hard for Donald to win without that state.
Lastly, here's Ezra Klein with his explanation of why Trump is doing so poorly. It has to do with not understanding that his job is to actually make things better instead of just acting like he's done that.