President Donald Trump rose to power by talking to desperate, distrustful, and angry Americans. In an interview with Reason, Anthony Scaramucci provides three critical mistakes that led to this atmosphere.
Trump currently holds some of the lowest approval ratings ever for a president prior to a midterm election, with 39.5 percent approval, according to RealClearPolitics. But it's not entirely Trump's fault. A Gallup poll in February 1999 reported that 71 percent of the country was satisfied with "the way things [were] going in the U.S.," but that number has been declining for most of the last 25 years. Today it sits at just 21 percent.
