Do Individuals Have a ‘Collective Amnesia’ About Donald Trump?

Ian Barrs, who works at a funeral residence in Atlantic, Iowa, mentioned there have been different components of Mr. Trump’s file which have appeared to fade. He usually marvels how his Trump-supporting buddies recall the years 2017 by way of 2019 as halcyon days. All of them had forgotten 2020 and the 12 months of Covid, he mentioned.

“Now I don’t blame Trump for Covid,” Mr. Barrs mentioned. “However all these issues, the lockdowns, these occurred beneath Trump.”

It’s widespread for Individuals to look again fondly on ex-presidents. A Gallup evaluation in June discovered 46 p.c of adults authorised of Mr. Trump’s dealing with of his presidency, based mostly on what they “heard or remembered.” Mr. Trump’s approval score when he left workplace was 34 p.c.

Requested what occasions he remembered in regards to the Trump administration, Roger Laney, a 55-year-old impartial, undecided voter in South Carolina, described a normal sense of “chaos.”

“He made nice…