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Trump's Polling Free Fall (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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In case you haven’t noticed, Donald Trump isn’t very popular.

The president’s polling numbers have been trending downward for the past year, and they’ve been especially brutal since he decided to go to war against Iran in February. It seems like every week a new batch of polls comes out emphasizing just how vigorously Americans have been giving two thumbs down to Trump’s job performance.

The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released a poll earlier this week putting Trump’s approval at just 33 percent. Reuters/Ipsos released one putting it at 36 percent. Earlier this month, a CNN poll found only 31 percent of Americans approved of Trump’s job performance, the lowest number across his career in politics. His numbers weren’t great before the war, either. The Pew Research Center had Trump’s approval at 37 percent in January. Gallup no longer polls for presidential approval, but in December they charted Trump’s at 36 percent, down from 47 percent at the beginning of his term. RealClearPolitics’ polling average shows such a steep rise in public disapproval of Trump and such a steep dropoff in public approval since last April that people are making memes out of it.

Funny how when you run on lowering prices and ending wars, then cause inflation and start wars, you might lose some popular support.

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[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 16 points 2 weeks ago

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trump's genius was that he could take that self hatred and point it at a nebulous combination of the Deep State, Democrats, immigrants, and brown people.

The approximate 30% who haven't turned on him probably never will. Even if they saw pictures of Trump killing a child he'd raped they'd still blame someone else.