Nicole Russell: Democrats are Starting to Like Trump

Not really.

Russell's point is really: they ought to be.

They like his policies--but, as she admits, 

Yet party affiliation still carries significant weight, even in the face of a strong record. An October Economist/YouGov Poll found that Trump's favorability, likability and leadership ability were purely determined by the respondents' ideological persuasion ‒ and by significant margins, too.
So even though Democrats say they support the president's initiatives, because he has addressed many of their main concerns, they still don't really like Trump or want to give him credit for improving their problems. That's too bad.

I've got a lot of blue-team friends and acquaintances...and they just plain detest Trump. They're inchoately against deportations, inchoately against removing fraud from government...and basically on the warpath against all of his efforts to save/reform universities. Dunno what they'd say about lowering Medicare drug prices...it's the kind of thing they'd be for (well...if it was Medicaid, anyway...)...

   Me, I don't know how lowering prescription prices is supposed to work...I'd normally be against such chicanery...but this is supposed to be effected by...greater bargaining power or something? So: not price controls? If so: more power to him.

   Anyway, Mr. Trump's unpopularity is, to a large extent, his own fault. He could be significantly less Trumpy...and more people would like him.

   But as for the academic types of my acquaintance: they are never, ever, ever going to admit that Trump is doing a good job.