Summary
In his first four weeks back in office, Trump has aggressively pushed executive orders, spending freezes, and mass firings, drawing both outrage and support.
To low-information voters, this flurry of orders appears like decisive action, boosting his approval ratings despite legal challenges.
His cuts to DEI programs and USAID funding resonate with those frustrated by government spending. However, opposition to Elon Musk’s role in the administration is growing.
Democrats are urged to shift their messaging from abstract policy fights to personal impacts on local communities.
M’ granduncle was fond of saying: ‘figures don’t lie but liars can still figure’. So could be cherry-picked data to convince the moderates that voted for Trump or sat out the vote that he’s great after all actually no need to complain about him no sir.
But more likely, given he’s making all the racists in the country happy by getting rid of DEI (which is their word-of-the-day stand-in for the n-word), and making all the religious fundies in the Bible Belt happy by getting rid of abortion and women’s rights, and the fact that almost all media is singing his praises…
I’d say the Post’s numbers are off; his approval hasn’t dropped, or it has but ‘he’s doing the Lord’s work’ so people don’t care and applaud anyways even if they don’t agree.