Sixty-three percent of people surveyed in a new CNN poll believe the women alleging affairs over Trump's quiet denials that they happened at all. In an interest Twist, Trump's overall approval rating rose significantly, even as people said they believe his women accusers and also that Trump's Cabinet and team of top advisers are "generally less qualified and less in touch than previous presidential appointees."

There are expected party and gender divides on both questions. Women are more inclined than men to say they believe the women claiming affairs (70% to 54%). Even among Republicans or leaning toward the Republican party, 45% of women say they believe the women compared with just 25% of GOP and GOP-leaning men. As expected, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to say the women should be freed from their NDAs. 78% among Democrats, 49% among independents and 25% among Republicans agree. These answers also break down on gender lines, with 59% saying the women should be free to discuss what happened with trump vs 34% saying the agreements should remain in place. Men disagree with 48% saying the agreements should remain in place and 43% saying the women should be free to discuss their relationships with Trump.

There's no way that Stormy Daniels could have lived up to the media hype around her Sunday night '60 Minutes' interview. When her brilliant attorney Michael Avenatti intimated that there would be major revelations around the Trump presidency in the '60 Minutes' segment, a decade-record audience of 22 million people gathered in watch parties. Dark and Stormy cocktails were served.

If you've followed the story closely, there were few new details. This general audience conclusion does not confirm an overall lack of brilliance in Stormy's interview strategy. As an aside, writes New York Magazine, Stormy gave us a lesson in taking the hot air out of Donald Trump.

Daniels took down Donald Trump's boundless ego, if only for one moment. Stormy broke through Trump's delusional self-importance, "literally slapping him into awareness of another person."

[The conversation] started off all about him just talking about himself: And he’s like, ‘Have you seen my new magazine?’ … And so I was like, “Does this normally work for you? … does just … talking about yourself normally work? … Someone should take that magazine and spank you with it. … And I’ll never forget the look on his face … I was like, ‘turn around, drop ‘em.’ … I just gave him a couple swats. and from that moment on, he was a completely different person. He quit talking about himself and he asked me things … it just became … more appropriate.

Making it clear in the privacy of his hotel suite that she was not impressed with Trump's, Stormy Daniels rendered Trump speechless and compliant, as he dropped his pants for a brief spanking with a rolled-up issue of 'Forbes' magazine.

The adult film star called Trump's bluff -- and like so many powerful men with inflated egos -- he knew she had him. Stunned that she would treat him with such seeming nonchalance, Trump dropped his pants like countless powerful men in America who play with BDSM as the supplicant. They crawl across the floor to a mistress prepared to punish them for their sins. In particular, these men come from Wall Street and other financial institutions and they truly do respect women who see through their hubris and bring them back to reality on a dungeon floor -- if only for a moment.

The so-called masters of the universe leave these episodes of temporary obedience revived by the experience of repentance and punishment.

Stormy Daniels has much to teach us about Trump the president and also ourselves as citizens. Instead of seeking all the salacious details that make us complicit in the spectacle of Trump's melodrama, we could take a Stormy Daniels approach that is low on outrage, high on self-discipline in managing Trump's daily hurricane and methodical in its focus on taking this man down.