Bad News for Trump as Brutal New Polls Show Musk Tanking
Bad News for Trump as Brutal New Polls Show Musk Tanking
An interview with political scientist Julia Azari, who argues that new polls showing public backlash to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s authoritarian overreach give Democrats an opening
The entire point of Musk being so visible is to pin all the unpopular stuff on him.
It gives Democrats an opening - in two years, if there are still elections.
Why would Elmo care about his approval ratings? He’s not an elected official.
The last poll they cared about was in early November 2024.
Approval always matters, even without democracy.
Democracy is just a managed, fairly agreed upon process for a governed people to exercise their will. But a governed people always have the ability to exercise their will. Authoritarian tactics can make that more difficult, but they cannot ever prevent it.
Remember, if there was nothing people could do to stop them, their propaganda would not be necessary. The fact that they are engaged in information control demonstrates that they do very much care about approval - or, at least, acceptance.
Exactly, fascists give zero fucks about public sentiment once they're in power. All they need to do is control the media and polls will align with their goals again. Case in point is the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-19/donald-trump-gulf-of-mexico-gulf-of-america
Edit as things are moving very fast.
Here's an even more boldfaced attempt at controlling the media. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fox-news-newsmax-oppose-trump-ap-ban_n_67b85283e4b05145b9c53cce
The idea that AP is "radical left". LOL.
It’s a knee jerk reaction for many to want polls to still matter. Polls are important of course, but not this year and next year is uncharted territory.
The only thing to do watch now is the comfort zone of the 10,000+ people in the American billionaire families; and that is the only check in power right now
Yeah I don't think either of them would care in the slightest about this type of polling.
Entirely predictable.
Trump was mocking the voting public on presidents day with that "Long live the king" quip.
That said, it's just bonkers that 40% of voters feel like things are going in the right direction. Honestly the whole thing is cooked.
That's the point isn't it? To pin polls on Elon.
Trump love cannon fodder as much as Elon.
Wouldn’t it be good news for trump if musk is tanking? Maybe he resigns and trump becomes president
How awesome would it be for him to get arrested and not pardoned because Trump blames him for tanking his poll numbers
trump controls the justice department in the executive, and GOP has firm control over the Judicial branch at the Supreme Court. Musk hasn't made friends of the GOP Washington power brokers. So trump could vindictively railroad musk through whatever remains of the justice system, and there would be no one that would stand and fight for Musk (except maybe Putin).
It might descend into one of those bizzaro world scenarios where "free market" Republicans call for and get the nationalization of SpaceX as a strategic asset (with its tight control of US military launch capabilities and Starlink network). Lefties would be uncomfortably cheering on the GOP for "seizing the means of production" in the form of Musk's companies.
It's a good thing Musk wasn't elected.
MAGA will blame it on Obama.