A recent poll found that only 14% of Americans believe that the President should ignore court rulings that he disagrees with. But when the same poll asked if President Trump should ignore a specific court order that he disagrees with, on the topic of deportations, the numbers shot up to 40%.
Americans do not support going to war with Canada in the abstract, but many of us will find a way to support whatever specific casus belli Trump comes up with. It's what I like to call the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" - these people know right from wrong, but when Trump is involved they lose their sense of reality.
Yep, it's like if you polled Americans and their representatives whether the US should invade and take over Iraq on Sept 10, 2001 vs March 19th, 2003.
9/11 and then a year and a half of constant "axis of evil" propaganda and suddenly a majority in congress was behind those actions.
But if you'd told people in May, June, August of 2001 that the US would be mobilizing for full invasion of another country, they'd tell you there was no support for that. And Bush's approval ratings were really low, too.
Americans do not support going to war with Canada in the abstract, but many of us will find a way to support whatever specific casus belli Trump comes up with. It's what I like to call the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" - these people know right from wrong, but when Trump is involved they lose their sense of reality.