I legitimately cannot comprehend polls where people who voted for Trump in 2024 changed their minds.
Trump- “Hey I’m going to do all this terrible shit”
Voters- “I’m going to vote for Trump presumably because I like his platform”
Trump- *does exactly what he said he was going to do*
Voters- >:(
I think a lot of them heard what they wanted to hear. Certainly few wanted to read anything about Project 2025, even though it was a click away. Or voted with their “tribe” and know next to nothing about that tribe’s decades long platform, Taco’s specific agenda, Project 2025’s agenda, or the conservative “movement” that underlies all of it.
Or they were simply racist AF and thought all the undesirables were going to be whisked away as if by magic and without any kind of visible consequences like women shot and children gassed. Or they thought he “didn’t really mean it” but he’s a miracle-worker on the economy…
But that’s because Trump speaks in open ended words like - freedom, patriot, illegal. People create their own narrative for what those words mean, and apply it to Trump and then are surprised that their definition doesn’t match trumps… I mean they can’t know everything right? /s
There was also a manual out. You didn’t even need to listen to him, you just had to read…
Apparently a lot of people in the US don’t think mocking a disabled person to be “too far”. Or raping children.
Fucking morons.
The US has a cancerous culture of selfish, self-centered narcissism and blind, feudal loyalty to money and those with money. No amount of monstrousness tugs the heartstrings until it impacts them personally. Slowly, those same selfish, evil, self-centered scum are realizing that the suffering they wanted to inflict on others impacts them. They will gain no self-awareness from this and learn nothing, continuing to metastasize even even after Trumpsolini is finally dead and rotting in the ground.
I JUST saw another article that said his approval ratings were fairly steady and line up with about what they were the first time around.
Statistics and numbers can be made to say damn near anythin.
Hes just plain stupidly evil. Even without comparing him to sunnier folks and times, he represents thr dregs of humanity
How any U.S. military officer (not the Nazi ice assfucks) could look and think taking a military order for him is in the best interest of their country is a good idea is beyond me.
The guy says whatever comes out of his mind and changes it minutely after who ever he’s talked to.
I guess distraction from his life as a snuff film producer is high on the list right now.
The US military is made up of people who saw Abu Ghraib and said “Sign me up.”
I made a similar comment about the Venezuelan boats being such a surprising amount of thoughtlessness to an enlistee. He responded that it was an easy political win because nothing had been done before. Finally it looks like a president standing strong, was the meaning I took. I still struggle to connect the dots.
His first term was a failure, I don’t even know how to describe his second so far.
The definition of success depends on what the goal was. If the goal was to establish a fascist dictatorship, wreck the economy, and make people afraid, he is a success
Does anyone really think the US isn’t a one-parfy authoritarian state at this point?
Don’t count on an election.
I’m baffled that some people still seem to presume this will end with the next election
He has virtually no support from Democrats while 9 in 10 Republicans back Trump.
Nothing has changed. The fascists still like fascism, they just wish eggs were a little cheaper.
Except there are fewer people identifying as Republican than ever before so that statistic doesn’t mean all that much. When people go from approving to disapproving of Trump they just leave the GOP because it’s a cult that is extremely hostile to dissent, so the ratio of Republicans who approve of him stays high while his popularity with the general public continues to go down.
Yep. Expect a whole lot of Sudden Independents. Or people claiming they belong to a non-existent party like
the teabaggers, oops, I mean the “Tea Party”.Both of which will likely wait on the sidelines for a bit, too embarrassed to admit they are conservatives, and not principled enough to be liberal, but will likely continue to secretly vote Republican, if they vote at all. They just might not broadcast it so much.
The biggest indicator that a conservative is operating in this mode - when they talk about “both sides” and wave in the direction of something David Brooks recently said or wrote…
In addition to “going too far”, he’s also too far gone.
That poll primarily shows that a good third of the American public is still to dumb to understand what is happening.
I cannot imagine being such a dimwit as to be one of the people just now waking up to this.
I mean…did these people really not see his first term? Did they really think that the only reason he failed in his first term was because of Covid?
A majority of Americans polled in the survey – 58% – characterized Trump’s first year of his second term as a “failure,” according to the poll.
Just 42% of respondents said Trump’s second term has been a success.
Imagine how dim the 42% must be.
21% of American adults are functionally illiterate. I wonder if that 42% has all of the 21%?
The people who support Trump after even 2018 are literally so cognitively disabled, I would genuinely submit for consideration that those people are as true to NPCs as possible.
Your average cockroach is more capable of self reflection and complex critical thinking than your average Trump supporter.
Bacertia is a better candidate for holding its own personal, and expansive personal thoughts than a Trump supporter.
ChatGPT is more capable of hallucinating genuine human empathy and emotional intelligence than a Trump supporter.
Cosmic background radiation is more grounded to Earth than a Trump supporter.
These people are simply stupid beyond repair and shouldn’t be respected as equals in any capacity.
i wonder if you are aware that you are brainwashing yourself. it’s okay to cope, we all have to do it these days, but its best kept to yourself where it causes less secondary harm.
The only people brainwashing themselves are those so fucking stupid they think people who’ve gleefully supported Nazism for over 10 years now don’t explicitly and knowingly support autocracy and genocide.
Maybe stop coping and pretending these assholes can be redeemed in any way and aren anything but a hostile enemy that’d see you and everyone like you die, and are currently making big strides to seeing that through.
The left loses when we constantly shoot our own balls off and attempt empathy and understanding to these sadistic sociopaths who’ve only ever demonstrated doubling down in that direction.
So get with reality or sit down and shut the fuck up, because people like you hold all real progress back. Stop cucking yourself to Nazis.
Im in Canada and have friends who believed his second term would be mostly as feckless as his first.
They didn’t understand how project 2025 meant he was going to be coming out of the gate with someone else’s agenda with all of the key players, including scotus in his back pocket. It all lined up to mean shit was going to go down fast and hard.
Look where we are one year in. 3 more years to subvert or nullify the next election.
He has virtually no support from Democrats while 9 in 10 Republicans back Trump.
So, ‘disastrous’ in the sense of clickbait headlines, but in practical terms, A-OK.
42% approving is way way too high.
Yeah this is the scary part. Idiots like Trump will always exist. The fact that so many Americans will follow an idiot is the worrying part.
A majority of Americans polled in the survey – 58% – characterized Trump’s first year of his second term as a “failure,” according to the poll. Just 42% of respondents said Trump’s second term has been a success.
Isn’t that the average spread of Democrat versus Republican voters has been? About 52/48?
According to the article, Trump has very poor support from Independents and virtually none from Democrats, but is getting approval from 9/10 Republicans. I don’t know what to do with such deeply rooted tribal mentality.
Come to the realization this whole country should have come to back in the 1960s when they were actively recruiting KKK members and accept that there is no reforming the Republican party and that their organization must be shoved into the dustbin of history
Good news is fewer people self identify as Republican than basically ever before, so things are actually headed in the right direction with public opinion
Actually, Gallup says we’re 27% Republican, 27% Democratic, and 45% independent (arc. What’s driving these numbers is the fact that the Republican party is a cult -
9 in 10 Republicans back Trump.
Racism and entitlement. All you need.
