Lmao so he's both the first AND second worst president of all time. He's more racist than Woodrow Wilson, dumber that George W. and more corrupt than Warren G. Harding.
I wish we wasn't a narcissist so he could feel the deep shame that he should about that.
You'd think people would know this already, seeing as he was already fucking President once and all, with even then totally predictable and insane levels of corruption and incompetence. Somehow that record never really came up during the election, amazing.
the MSMs were working 24/7/365 sanewashing him since he lost in 2020, it had a positive effect on his image, because he was getting free press 24/7+ putin backed right wing grifters were helping hammering the messaging in young men voters too.
I hate to say it (I really hate to say it), but I don't think Trump is incompetent. I think he has different goals than you think he does, and is executing them successfully.
I mean, obviously he's a profoundly stupid person, but he's some kind of idiot-savant that manages to succeed at his criminally evil goals despite that. Might be why all the dipshits admire him so much, come to think of it.
People on the east coast tend to think of civil war in terms of of north south instead of east west. Gavin Newsom straight up declared California a "Nation State" last time Scump tried pushing California around, and he's right California is the world's fourth longest economy. As a Coloradans, I'm feeling less and less rapport with east coast shenanigans. Everyone east of the Mississippi can take their north south shit and shove it. Colorado's a headwaters state with more oil in our shale that the whole of Saudi Arabia. What the fuck do we need with Alabama?
I have a feeling that only when fox news starts saying he is bad, will the republican supporters also get on board. They don't see what fox don't want them to see. USA has a propaganda problem.
Well, he destroyed the federal government, and he's locking up brown people while trampling all over their constitutional rights. Naturally, the Republicans love him.
A critical lack of empathy for their fellow man. Americans have had the concept of "fuck you got mine" so engrained into them, couple this with their overall lack of intelligence and you can see how a grifter promising them everything won the nation.
People are tuned into propaganda. I get exposed to it once in a while and it's abhorrent. Arguing, yelling, and just a deluge of lies. It pretends to be important. It pretends to be news. But really, it's more like 1984's 2 minutes of hate diluted down and stretch out so people can get their fill whenever they want (or for older people, just consume it constantly).
For many less politically-involved people, they are still emotionally and culturally tied to their political "team". For many, it's easier to just go along with the shifts in the party than to change identity.
People are lazy/busy/uninterested. People generally don't want to learn about economics, history, politics, sociology, psychology, etc. This leaves a huge hole for someone like Trump to say and do the things he's been doing without his uneducated base calling BS. I took 2 100-level economics electives long ago for my degree and saw right through his tariff lies because this stuff isn't that complicated.
Messaging. The right-wing messaging is mostly half-truths and all-out lies, but they are incredibly effective at getting their messaging out and believed. A lot of it is just repetition, repetition, repetition. The left really needs to get their shit together. I'm not looking for propaganda like the right is doing, but the Dems started loosing so badly because the right would grab an issue like a rabid Chihuahua and just not let go. Benghazi is a perfect example. Fix the messaging -- keep is simple and just repeat it forever.
I live in Trump country. A lot of these people are living in an alternate reality where trans people and immigrants are lurking behind every corner to take their kids and women and the economy is in shambles but in a way that only impacts white middle class Americans.
I'd really love it if, instead of them suffering, we could just get everyone to stop suffering.
We focus way too much on the "people getting what they deserve" aspect of politics and then it consumes our rhetoric to a point where we overcorrect and put more effort towards punishing bad things than building good things.
Well you see, we've tried rationalizing with them, reasoning with them, spread some logic to them, educating them .etc
And they still kept doing the same thing anyways. They were the ones who told us we were liars, we're apart of some "Deep State", we're "Traitors" and all sorts of insults and untrue slander.
What? The poll said 86% of Republicans strongly or somewhat approve of Trump right now.
I'm still sad anyone would even vote for that goon. I truly worry for my countrymen who voted for him, they're naive, dumb or full of incredible hate and malice - none of which is good.
I'm sure we'll be hearing a thoughtful introspective acknowledgement prompted by this information soon and not some all caps 'FAKE NEWS!1!1' proclamation.
We can only compare to recent history when modern approval ratings were in practice which would be Nixon. Looking farther back it would probably be James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson.
Wtf is this even talking about? 41% approval isn't even close to the lowest a president has ever had for a term average, let alone a single day.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the most divisive president in history with the delta of approval from the left and right being so starkly contrasted, but 41% isn't even that low.
Nixon's second term approval was 34.4%
Bush jr's approval rating was 36.5% in his second term.
As far as I know he's not trying to be the worst president of the United states of America but the whole known universe and that's really something special. He gotta be really special to achieve that and that's what he's going to tell to himself and his followers.