Any notion that the second Trump administration would prove less turbulent than the first has surely been laid to rest by the accidental leaking of secret military plans to a journalist on the messaging app Signal. But Trump’s political opponents aren’t in too great a state themselves. Fresh off the Democratic Party’s presidential election defeat last November, their popularity has plummeted – a recent CNN poll has placed the Democrats’ favourability rating at just 29 per cent, a record low since their polling began in 1992.
