The pieties strike back — against Trump

Published January 2, 2018 5:01am ET



Donald Trump, who pulled off an astonishing win over a year ago, is the least popular president ever elected thus far. Other presidents were elected, and became more unpopular later, but Trump was unpopular from the day he announced, unpopular while running, and unpopular the day he was elected as president, even while he was winning over 300 votes in the Electoral College.

At the same time, he had unprecedented levels of resistance from inside his party, some of whose members have never come over. He failed to win a majority of the votes cast in the Republican primary, and lost the popular vote by more than two million to the also-unpopular Hillary Clinton.

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