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The fact it's still at 29% is mind boggling to me. How delusional or racist/pedophilical do you have to be to approve of this guy?
there are a LOT of severely uneducated inbred racist bigots in this country. pretty much anywhere in the south, or any isolated rural area anywhere--that's what it is
My incredibly racist late grandmother asked me in 2020 if I was voting for "the other guy."
"no, i'm voting for trump because he's going to obliterate your medicare"
Don't worry. Her husband died in like 1985, and she lived off his government pension for 35 years.
Not "anywhere in the south" and no I'm not just talking about the cities. One of the blue-est parts of Georgia is the poorest and most rural. Not as blue as Atlanta of course, but still blue
I recommend traveling to the south before making sweeping generalizations. Some of the most extreme views I've encountered in the South I've found in states like Pennsylvania and parts of upstate New York too.
This isn't a geography issue. It's an education and culture issue
It's mind boggling to me for a different reason, he has always had his cult locked in where he never dropped below 30something% no matter what he did. The fact that he actually lost some of the die hard "I'd forgive him for raping my daughter" croud is kinda wild.
Well there is a group of people who financially benefit from his presidency and an even larger group who sincerely believe they'll benefit in the long run. And then there is a group who don't really care about politics as long as they can buy shiny new things. That's not 29% obviously, but as long as the economy doesn't collapse there will be people who are fine with whatever happens so i guess you're right: that he continues to lose support is wild, wildly enough.
A lot of that crowd is elderly. Even if none of them change their opinion, he's still going to be losing them over time.
My grandma voted for Trump in 2024 ... by mail, from her hospice bed.
Hopefully, she won't be voting in 2026 or 2028. (Though I wouldn't put it past my family to cast another mail-in ballot for her 'because it's what she would have wanted'.)
Even post-Watergate Nixon had 25%. I think no matter what he does it isn't going to drop below that, there's a subset of the population that simply won't adjust their opinion on of him.
Keep in mind a lot of people simply aren't paying attention and a lot of people have made MAGA a core part of their personality; to turn on it now would mean admitting that all their social media posts, financial contributions, merch, and ruined relationships were in vain. It's massively humiliating to admit to yourself and others that you were that overconfidantly wrong to hitch your wagon to a known conman rapist.
I've found that in every US political poll, the absolute worst of the worst topic or candidate will almost always have 25-30% support. I really think a quarter of people are complete assholes who lack empathy and care for no one but themselves.
Realistically, a portion of that is going to be people trolling/giving a "joke" answer, a portion is going to be people who are so unaware of literally anything going on that they just answer "sure, it's fine", or are basically illiterate and effectively just answer randomly. The number of people who are seriously answering are going to be a smaller subset of that number, greater than 0% but lower than the true number.
It's the crazification factor.
Here's the original post about it.
29% is insanely low considering how much propaganda they spew and how much media they control.
I try to be "optimistic" because Trump is only going to make things worse, so even lower numbers are possible.
Even Truman was barely lower than this, though his were low because dipshit Americans fellated MacArthur who was a Trump-like figure in many ways. Fake bravado (he abandoned his troops in the Philippines when things got tough), shit talker who spewed bloodthirsty talking points (he wanted to drop 50 nukes on China during the Korean War), but wore cool shades and smoked a pipe, etc
Maga simply represents the shallow, indulgent narcissism at the root of American identity, especially in the shithole South. We've been like this for a long fucking time.
If I told you the population was 29% raving morons, you wouldn’t be surprised, would you?
Sounds a bit low, honestly.
Though, to be fair, even a lot of raving morons don't support Trump.
It's an intentional mix of low education, racist history, rural isolation, a faith-based understanding of reality, and 50 years of relentless fascist propaganda. It creates a culturally reinforced tribalism in Republicans and makes them into a sort of cattle-class that can easily be led around by media misinformation. They're too isolated, too dumb, and too blindly loyal to The Party to ever wake up to the reality of their subjugation or the evil of their leaders.
That's why they'll never abandon Trump.
I'm sure there are those that have fatiqued from any pressure to change their opinions and tuned out of any negative news as something they don't trust. They are not even reading them. Kinda the same way I'm fatiqued about anything Trump related and just moving on.
Just like a grand jury will typically indict a ham sandwich, a GOP voter will typically approve of a ham sandwich if their is an R next to its name. Then again, I would rate Sandwich, Ham (R) higher than Trump too, so...