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America's awake.
That's why Donald is polling lower than Jimmy Carter.
The only reason he's polling low numbers is because the unnecessary war in Iran is pushing gas prices up. If he hadn't done that, I don't believe he would be polling this low. Which means he fumbeled it. And the voters didn't care until it cost them their wallet.
My god, this whole ongoing SS ICE fuckery should have gotten some use of the 2nd amendment...!
That is not correct.
Iran exacerbated the issue, but the low polling goes back to the Anti-ICE actions in Minnesota.
People voted for two things in 2024: stronger immigration policy (not to be confused with rebranding the Gestapo, these are two distinctly different things) and affordability. Doesn't help that Donald explicitly promised no more forever wars, but his massive unpopularity goes back to allowing ICE to run rampant in Minneapolis and elsewhere. Watching masked thugs chase down and tackle fifth graders pissed off voters on both teams.
And higher than basically any other democratically elected western leader. He was elected twice, after all.
I can't speak for anyone outside the US.
But here, polling lower than Jimmy Carter puts you among the worst, if not the worst, US presidents ever. That he was elected twice is irrelevant.
Carter wasn't that bad (though we was a centrist while in office, and only later adopted some based political views). There was biased media back then, too, and the thing that made him look worst was the Iran hostage crisis, which Reagan colluded with the mullahs to prolong for just that purpose.
He was objectively a shitty president, but yes, Reagan's meddling didn't help things.
It is very much relevant. He was polling worse than Carter in his first term. Didn't help much, did it? He won even bigger the second time.
Obviously it did, as he lost the 2020 election, unless we're ignoring cause and effect.
The problem isn't Donald in this scenario. The problem is that people's lives didn't improve in a material way following the 2020 election (and in fact grew significantly worse), which unfortunately laid the groundwork for a second Donald presidency.