Has Donald Trump bitten off more than he can chew in the first three weeks of his second presidency? New numbers from a national survey conducted by YouGov for The Economist demonstrate that the answer to that question is yes.

The newish president has many tough fights ahead of him, but he hasn’t done anything to accumulate political capital for the struggles ahead. In fact, there has been a significant decline in his approval rating since he returned to the White House.

At the beginning of his second interrupted term, there were more Americans who approved of his performance than disapproved. Now there are as many who disapprove as approve of his performance. If his job rating gets much lower, congressional Republicans will have hell to pay in 2026 and suffer damage comparable to the big hit they took when the GOP lost control of the House of Representatives in 2018 after the first two years of Trump’s first term.

Now, there are almost as many Americans who dislike Trump personally as who like him which is a decline in his popularity from when he took the oath of office for a second time. The drop in his personal ratings have been most significant among people under 30 who find his culture war particularly repugnant and wonder why he hasn’t addressed high prices as he promised during the campaign.

Public assessment of the president indicates that he hasn’t moved beyond his narrow popular vote victory to extend a hand to millions of Americans who didn’t vote for him last year. In fact, he already has lost some of the support that he........

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