Nearly half of U.S. adults disapprove of Trump's handling of protests: Poll

Nearly half of Americans don't understand that when an illegal and immoral tactic is used against someone you don't like, it can then be used against you too. Dumb fucking Americans.

We need to start finding ways to take away the rights of Evangelical Christians. Let them see how it feels for once.
- Have you considered wishing them Happy Holidays?

So over half of Americans aren't concerned with accelerating authoritarianism? Great.

They will be, when it affects them personally.
In other words, typical Republican thinking.
- It's already affecting them personally, they've just been brainwashed into blaming the wrong people
They voted for it in the first place
38% percent not over half
- Yes over half. If nearly half of respondents disapprove, than the other over half either support it or don't care enough to oppose it, which is to say they aren't concerned about it.

If "nearly half" disprove that means more than half approve.
That's fucking disgusting.

There's always a good percentage that are indifferent or "don't know". But they're no help.
- So basically the same outcome as the election. People haven't changed.
- Which is the exact same as approving it.
Per the article:
47% of U.S. adults disapprove of of deploying the Marines to LA, with 34% approval.
45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.
That leaves 19% and 17% that are undecided. The question for those would be are they uninterested or uninformed?
- Both probably. Or just flat out too stupid to have an opinion
- Who gives a shit? They've proven themselves fucking useless like the shit heels they are.
To be fair here and without looking up numbers, such polls tend to often show the same pattern. Something like 45% A, 30% undecided, 25% B.
So when "nearly half" disapprove it can still mean "a majority" does.
- Not a majority. A plurality.
- This is exactly what happens with democratic societies
  No. This is what happens when you have two sides, both too large to really represent anyone, battling for a sliver of majority using increasingly diverging views and then exercising as much power as they can before the roles flip again.
  In an actual democracy representatives of the people, with many differing views, sit down together and decide case by case on a solution that most can be happy with.
  Someone will always disagree with any decision when we live in a large society, but a functioning democracy is the closest thing we have ever come to making sure that as many as possible are happy (and more importantly get a say).

These are some depressing numbers.

47% of U.S. adults disapprove of of deploying the Marines to LA, with 34% approval.
45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.
... An equal share — 45% — also disapprove of the protests against ICE, per Monday YouGov polling.
36% said they approve of the protests, and 19% said they are not sure.
58% of Democrats said they approved of the anti-ICE protests, compared to 15% of Republicans.

58% of Democrats said they approved of the anti-ICE protests, compared to 15% of Republicans.
I wonder how does it compare to previous iterations of large protests.
- The article implied this is within historic norms for civil rights protests in the US

That's because there are hundreds of millions of racist fascists here.

That's a lot of people who saw a reporter get shot and went "I'm cool with that".

I'm joking. Most of them probably aren't paying enough attention to have seen that.

Did FOX even show that video?

That percentage is insanely low. What is wrong with the fuckers that approve?

A significant lack of education mixed with misguided hatred.
Mass propaganda. Meta and google promote pro trump propaganda now too

Less than the majority is depressing, but don't forget how the media is covering this. MAGA eats this shit up, obviously, but even your standard semi-informed people are getting "riots on the street of LA" bullshit on their local news outlets.

I'm actually a little surprised it's "almost half" in disapproval, given how badly this is covered. I wonder if TikTok and Bluesky are helping, the latter being obvious but the former being surprisingly good at showing what's actually happening on the ground-- at least a lot better than Meta and X options.

Yeah, also even though it's "almost half" there's more people saying disapprove than approve, so there's a large number in the "unsure" category right now, and the more we find out about who's being deported and how and what the cops will do to suppress these protests the more that disapprove number will go up

NEARLY HALF?

45% disapprove the National Guard deployment, while 38% said they approve.

So 38% are enemies of Constitution and country.

Anytime there's a poll, it's always the same 30-39% of shitheads liking the bad thing.
The Authoritarians- a book by Prof. Altmeyer- says there's about 1/3 of the population who are authoritarians and that percentage is pretty constant no matter what one does. SO it sounds about right
- I hadn't heard of that book before. Looking it up, it's a book about the psychology of authoritarianism, backed by research and receipts. I'll add it to the top of my reading list. It also seems to be available for free on the author's website. Thank you for this.

"nearly half" so over 50% of US adults are mentally challenged it seems

Well, remember George Carlin when he said something along the lines of "Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half the population is dumber than that."
Did 2024 not teach you that already? It's all a lost cause.
Probably more, some that are mentally challenged awknowledge Trump is terrible, they are just mentally challenged in a nother way.

That means a majority approve or don't care. We're fucked

45% don't approve and 38% approve someone said further up. Still not great but not the majority the headline makes it seem
- or don't care
  17% of the population not giving a shit is a problem

So more than half are okay with it or don't care about it.

Nothing has changed since the election.

This country continues to depress me. It really should be way higher.

It's going to be interesting to see the reaction on the ones who approve when Trumpflation really gets going because farms can't hire enough workers to pick their fields and work their cattle and poultry mills.
Good time to plant a victory garden. You're gonna need it.
- Funny you mention it. I am growing a garden this year for the first time ever.

Wow, we got ALMOST half of America to understand that it's bad when presidents send the military to threaten Americans.

That almost makes me think our inevitable decline as a nation will happen slower than I originally thought.

So a majority approves. Fuck this country.

There's something that needs to be done, and that something is drastic, and a lot of people don't want to hear, or see it. But we can't keep going forward as a country where more than half of people are violent sociopaths, or enablers of the latter.

Between 33% and 38% of Americans shouldn't be allowed to make decisions because they are incompetent or vile. That's how many have never wavered in their support of Trump.

But I am shocked here at the extra 12+% who aren't outraged by what's happening now. Is that the 11% of Libertarians? (https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2014/08/25/in-search-of-libertarians/)

Libertarians are just right wing fascists who don't like paying taxes

US is lost

If a majority of Americans approve then the problem will not go away if Trump goes away.

lol we are cooked

More than half of US citizens are fascists? That does not surprise me.

Nearly half eh? Yeah less then half checkes out.

The other half are as dumb as a bag of hammer.

That’s right. Just one hammer. With measles.

Only half?

48% don't approve 34% approve

A lot of people are only seeing very sensationalized edited media about this and thinks the protests are way worse and more violent than they actually are.

Pathetic.

It’s ok because it will never happen to me! Huh? These politicians have zero policy agenda and thrive on having an other to rally against? They’ll go after me for the pettiest of things like living while poor to fill their private prison quotas once all the gross gays and browns are reduced to cinder? Nah. This is America. It can’t happen here!

That every American doesn't approve of Trump's handling of protests is shameful.

That every American doesn’t approve of Trump’s handling of protests is shameful.
Quite the contrary. But looking at your post history, I wonder whether you accidentally said the opposite of what you meant.
- I meant that it’s shameful that not all Americans disapprove of the Trump fascist regime. I seem to have been grammar challenged.
Did you perhaps mean disapprove?

half of America is dumber than a sack of potatoes

I disapprove of his existence.