2d ago

Trump loses public support during his first 3 months in office

www.brookings.edu

Trump’s approval has taken a substantial swing of 9.6 points, from a net positive of 6.2 points in late January to a net negative of 3.4 points in mid-April.
Trump’s loss in support among Hispanic and young adults has been especially steep.
The president has not persuaded Americans that foreign countries and producers will bear the burden of higher tariffs, or that the gain will be worth the pain.

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7h ago

Trump loses public support during his first 3 months in office

www.brookings.edu /articles/trump-loses-public-support-during-his-first-3-months-in-office/

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2d ago

Trump loses public support during his first 3 months in office

www.brookings.edu /articles/trump-loses-public-support-during-his-first-3-months-in-office/

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Like that will bother him.
If he follows the rules, he can't run again anyway.
If he doesn't follow the rules, you won't even get asked any more.

The only poll I'm interested is the one that puts him in a short-drop noose.

It still blows my mind that he ever had any to start with.
- Every headline reads like: "Trump's approval rating drops to 49.9%, his lowest yet! 25% of people disapprove, and 25% thought Biden was still president"
- Technically he didn't. He's in office because there is no support for the opposition. It's the same shit Putin used to do to stay in power: make his opponents seem as unlikable as possible.
  
  Technically he didn’t. He’s in office because there is no support for the opposition.
  He's in office because there's no OPPOSITION in the opposition. He should be in jail.
  
  Dude, he has TONS of support. Stupid fucking support.

Unless we get a bunch of support for the opposition this means fuck all.
- Like if they choose MTG next, we're so extremely screwed.

Because he sucks

Trump doesn't care about the public. Trump only cares about himself.

A simple executive order will fix that

huh. can't imagine why.

He still has 40% support, so he's still incredibly popular.
We all know what it actually takes to stop Fascists.
- This guy had an idea once.
  
  Climbing on top of a tank and yelling at the driver?
  You would get shot doing that in America.
- 40% of people that would respond to a stupid fucking survey on popularity.
  
  He won the popular vote. Step foot outside an urban area and you'll see that his popular support isn't just an illusion.
  There's a floor of around 38% of Americans who are going to hold that line to the death. They've lost friends, family, and businesses over their stance already and haven't budged. This has been going on for ten years now. They're in it til the end.
  
  It's closer to what Obama was at mid career. If you want bad you gotta hit W numbers, he was at a low of 19% approval in 2008.
- We all know what it actually takes to stop Fascists.
  Wait a second... what?
  I am not joking, what is the solution you are signaling to?
  
  The only correct position for fascists.
  
  A bullet to the head, historically.
  
  Historically speaking, fascism is voted in but never voted out. Historically, it is only ever been uprooted through military action.
  Also, it is easier and safer to say what needs to be done between friends in conversations not mediated by the internet.
  
  South Korea stopped it
  
  🔫
  
  Don't play stupid, it's just as dumb as the people trying out fantasy plans about straight up murder

Lucky for him he doesn’t need public support. Or care.
- Bullshit. Every leader, even a dictator, needs public support.
  The deeper they get their claws in, the less support they need. But Trump doesn’t have them in that deep yet.
  
  Yeah, if the president hits Bush numbers like 19% in 2008 or lower then you get a much higher chance of being ousted. If you lose enough popularity within the Republican party then the Senate can impeach him and remove him from office.
  
  Every leader, even a dictator, needs public support.
  They get it, implicitly, from the mass of people who continue about their business uninterrupted.
  What protest seeks to do is to kick off a popularly supported disruption in a dictator's supply chain. But what they risk is taking the blame for the crisis, as a result.
  The deeper they get their claws in, the less support they need. But Trump doesn’t have them in that deep yet.
  He's got all the cabinet level offices and is purging the departments of opponents. There is nothing currently in his way
  
  I don’t think he intends to win any more elections.
- Might as well just poll the DHS at this point

Polls don't mean shit. You're gonna need to drag him out of the oval office by his ankles if you want him to leave.
- Polls do matter, because it won't go over well to "Mousolini" him if he still has a strong base. But clearly he and Bukele are wary of the growing unrest, or else they would not have separated Garcia from the CECOT gen pop or allowed a photo op.
  We are only 3 months in and he has flinched a few times. There is serious hope that his reign will be much shorter than Erdogan's, for example, regardless of his personal health.

Important to remember trump is a symptom. It's his cult of supporters that stand behind and support no matter what he does.
This is 10s of millions of people. They are police, lawyers, judges, doctors, teachers, neighbors, etc.
Getting rid of trump is important, but the point is we have much bigger foundational problems to fix. Conservative elite billionaire oligarchy class owning our media, political system, education, propaganda, etc. They are the ones who helped cause all this.
- Russian election interference?

what were the 18-24 year olds thinking when they voted Trump?
- Have you been on YouTube lately? (Or any algorithmic social media in general, like Facebook?) Pro-MAGA content gets promoted while anything against is buried. Anti-Trump comments are hidden and you get a "some content might not be visible yet" message in your comment history.
  Gen Z was raised by algorithms, so is it really a big surprise that they lean MAGA?
- Same crap I thought in 2016 probably (thanks reddit). F the dems and burn the place to ground. I f%#!ing hope they grow up. Cause that was a terrible choice. I still say f the dems but you need to prioritize targets from most evil first then work your way down.
- They didn't. They didn't vote for the alternative because of one issue. That's the problem.
  
  The party would rather have trump than abandon their only issue.

If only he had told us what he was going to do
- If only the people actually understood what it would mean and what the costs would be

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