President Trump has increasingly adopted a posture of nonchalance when pushed on the political consequences of his actions.

But a president who built a powerful political movement partly on channeling heartland grievances over the faded American dream now seems deaf to the country’s economic pain. He has other priorities — like a $29 billion and counting war that many citizens blame for their financial troubles.

President Donald Trump seems indifferent to public opinion, according to one political analyst — and that poses a grave threat to the future of democracy. “His approval rating has plunged into the 30s,