Summary
Donald Trump has the lowest approval rating of any newly elected U.S. president since World War II, except for himself in 2017.
While his immigration policies and government downsizing have support, controversial moves—like ending birthright citizenship and renaming the Gulf of Mexico—face strong opposition.
Economic concerns, particularly rising prices, remain a major issue for voters.
Analysts say Trump’s popularity will likely hinge on broader economic and immigration policies, with potential political consequences for Republicans in the 2026 elections.
He’s the only President to never reach 50% approval, yet he’s been elected twice.
That’s all the evidence you need to know that our election system is broken.
The important thing to remember is that this doesn’t matter at all. If you’re a progressive who is overwhelmed by the state of affairs and looking for a hint of good news, this aint it.
This will affect nothing
The fact that even if all the non-voters voted for a mix of third parties, it would still net the same result under this system, tells you all you need to know about FPTP.
People really hate women presidential candidates apparently.
That must be it. No other lesson to be learnt.
Lol no. Studies have been done about this. The average voter doesn’t give five shits if the candidate is a man or a woman.
3 chances at guessing what the average voter cares about.
Hint: it’s not gender policies, pronouns or social culture wars
When the average voter doesn’t give a damn either way while someone else cares deeply, but only in one direction, it makes the minority the most important demographic.
Let’s say you have a choice between “A” and “1”, and 98% of people don’t care. But 2 percent care deeply and will vote based on the superiority of “A”, while nobody votes based on their support of “1.”
All else being equal, if one pay ignores the issue while the other adopts the platform of “A is great, and 1 is bad”, the latter party will win the election.
That’s how the GOP wins elections. They target single-issue voters: Gun nuts. Pro-lifers. Racists. Christian Nationalists. Relatively small groups that vote in lockstep without a significant equivalent group on the other side of the issue.
Sure: most people are pro-choice. But how many pro-choice Democrats would have changed their vote if Trump and Harris had opposite positions than reality on those issues but were otherwise identical? I certainly wouldn’t have voted for Trump over it. But pro-life voters absolutely will change based on that single issue.
It’s why every single time the Dems make that a central issue, they get slaughtered in the general election. Pro-choice Republicans simply don’t prioritize the right to choose over everything else, so they keep voting red.
The Republicans are masters of finding and manufacturing single-issue voting groups that will vote against their own interests to achieve a goal the GOP doesn’t actually care about.
Brilliant observation, thank you.
Your people are rock chewing stupid, that’s the big issue
As long as you need those “Rock chewing stupid” people to win an election, and you keep thinking of them as such, you will KEEP losing elections
Those “rock chewing stupid” people are LITERALLY American workers. You know, the people that for good or bad keep the country running?
And then democrats have the gall to call themselves the party of the worker man.
Pathetic
Remember a week ago when he had his highest approval rating ever when he took office?
Well, that sure was quick. The goldfish have remembered why we got rid of him in the first place.
They really do invoke the thought of a goldfish, don’t they?
It’s Tory’s newspaper, right?
Ah yeah, double think
Winning the popular vote is being unpopular
Winning the election is losing the election
Not voting for Trump is voting for Trump
War is peace
Freedom is slavery
There are not 4 lights, but 5 lights
The stunlock continues and intensifies
Maybe some of those people who he’s not popular with should have fucking voted.
Many tried it seems: https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/
But … the last guy who was not even on the ballot is as old as Trump. And eggs are expensive. And another country is waging war, sorry, gEnOcIdE. And Kamala sounds foreign and I don’t know what she would do because I prefer to revel in ignorance instead of finding out myself.
I agree that there is genocide happening. I also understand that the guy who got elected is actively in favor of it and wouldn’t lift a finger to stop it if everyone in the country begged him, while the person who lost was trying to balance millions of conflicting priorities (and sadly those dying are not the top priorities) and the result isn’t what I want. There are other things to consider after you realize you’re not going to get what you want.
There were a whole lot of low-info voters and certainly a lot of idiots fell for that gEnOcIdE jOe nonsense, too.
People think that “politics doesn’t matter” or fall for the “bothsides” thing honestly think it doesn’t matter if someone like donvict gets into office…and unfortunately all of us are likely to find out…
‘Fell for’
I’m sorry, it’s a very simple conclusion that the genocide will be worse under Trump. There is quite literally no way you can interpret otherwise - he has made it very clear what his plans for Israel are.
They didn’t ‘fall’ for anything, they’re just fucking stupid. They didn’t think, at all.
I try to give some the benefit of the doubt - there are a few that genuinely do seem to think that “both sides” is a valid position.
But yeah, a whole lot of voters demand that the Democratic Party gives them a pretty pretty pony and if they don’t get one, they will then proclaim just how extremely moral it is for them to be extremely selfish in their unrealistic demands and will loudly sit out or cast a “protest vote”. All of us are incredibly impressed, of course. Many of this same bunch will now proceed to the next step where they sit their with arms folded, adopting this “I told you should have listened to us” attitude.
If not sitting around with this smug attitude, they’ll put on a Pikachu face for all the horrible shit donvict and the qons will do to America, but probably forget all that come the next election, where they will demand a pony from the Democrats again, or they will withhold their vote. 🤦♂️
Aptly put, I appreciate that there are people like you who still want to find the good in people.
Me, personally, I’m pissed. You can only fail 1+1 so many times before you’re deemed defective.
I personally find a lot of the “both sides” are just trolls. Quite a few are just quite intellectually lazy and only barely pay attention to anything beyond sportsball and celebrity gossip.
They look at the candidates and see “two old white guys” and build a ridiculous false equivalence from that position. Of course, they get an assist in this lazy thinking from the so-called “leftists” that often engage in ridiculous and absurd identity politics, but I’d say a lot of that is a deliberate effort to empower the far right. This was such a lazy form of thinking that even when Joe dropped out, the low-info didn’t even know he dropped out and that it was Kamala was running (and when told that, they didn’t even know who she was).
They were too insignificant to listen to. If you think they’re significant enough to blame, you should have listened to them.
That fickle bunch changed their mind more than their underwear.
They say the guy is too old so they switch her out for a younger woman and they don’t vote anyways.
No you fucking ingrate. Democrats would have lost if they listened to them anyway. The tik tok voters were never going to vote for democrats, that would be against their sense of virtue. Harris fucked up a ton by not distancing herself from conservatives and Biden but even she tried to throw the Palestinian protesters a bone at one point and there wasn’t a singular budge.
The reason the DNC lost is many. The blame for the end of US democracy is easily spread around because there are many people deserving of blame. It doesn’t really matter anymore anyway though does it?
The enemy is both weak and strong.
Not that I have the power to do anything about it, but everyone was supposed to be listening to people with severe delusions about the way our system works?
everyone was supposed to be listening to people with severe delusions about the way our system works?
Those in power did. Here we are.
Especially this previous election, since they’re about to write the tax laws AGAIN which won’t expire for another decade.
He won with 1% of the vote, 35% of eligible voters stayed home.
Yeah, that was my point.
I understand, I was just throwing actual numbers out because it pisses me off too.
Maybe people in the most heavily propagandized country on the planet should stop relying on the “Democratic” process.
is this another one of those famously accurate polls we were subjected to during the election?
Doesn’t matter. The GOP hold all three branches of government and will do whatever he tells them to do.
Fun thing about the GOP is that they are all rats waiting for the ship to sink. The minute they see that trump is weaker/unpopular among their base, they’ll jump ship and try to sell him out
They’ll never publicly sell him out, because he’s already attained mythical status to his base.
He is a cult leader, and those around him want that for themselves. They know he’s old and just all want to be the one he hands the cult over to.
I don’t know how viable that actually is, a decade of Trump flags and Trump shirts and Trump merchandise, and decades of Trump branding everywhere before that. The Trump cult is in too deep.
The GOP winners will probably be the ones that poach the Trump brand as “we are Trump’s chosen ones to carry out Trump’s vision for America”, until his cultural significance wanes.
I honestly think there will be spontaneous dancing in the streets or wherever people are at if they learn of donnie’s passing.
Don’t give me hope
I’m waiting to watch Tea Party 2.0. If donvict dies or in some other way the spell breaks like it did under Dumbya…they’ll pretend they “never heard of her” when it comes to donvict, and you suddenly won’t be able to find any Republicans.
That’s until they find their next China White to mainline. They ain’t gonna settle for the likes of Romney and Jeb, that’s for sure. They’ll need someone even worse than donvict. They went from Ronnie Raygun - who was just fucking awful already, to W (arguably worse, though he probably did less damage than Ronnie Raygun), to diaper donvict.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Also, until the Democratic party engages in serious reform that throws out the old leadership who keeps collaborating with fascists, slashing our safety nets, and throwing taxpayer money
andat private for profit organizations we’re going to keep getting these waves of fascists taking over every other electione; autocorrect is reactionary /s
And yet he still got re-elected. We are the dumbest nation comprised of the most idiotic people to ever exist in history.
This is what I keep saying to my friends when we argue politics
We can no longer just say that Dumpster Don is an idiot
We can now say that the entire US is one giant collective idiot
The nation is dumb … so is it any wonder that they have a dumb leader?
It makes me so sad. I live here and I feel constant shame, anger, depression. I always say the right is filled with hate, but I find myself hating and it bothers me. I try to understand everyone.
But we’re reaching the point of how much tolerance should intolerant people be shown? And I’m over it personally, fuck anybody who voted for him/not at all and fuck him too.
Let’s just hope that we don’t use that position to terrorize other nations further than we already have
The fact that he isnt even less popular than his last election scares me. The guy has proven himself time and time again in the spotlight to be evil, moronic, really any negative adjective you can think of, and he still has supporters. More, even. How? *
And the thing people are most upset about is renaming the Gulf. What in the absolute fuck?
Trans people are attempting to flee the country fearing for their lives
…and the thing people care about is the fucking Gulf of Mexico getting renamed
That’s the whole point. Deflect real controversy with stupid sound bites.
Because people in this country have the memory of a fucking goldfish. I’m sure it’s going to drop hard in a week.
I need to know the content of the footnote.
The how is people who disprove of him being more than willing to allow him to win an election because they say there is no difference between him and his opponent. That is up till he is elected and then they suddenly realize how much worse he actually is.
Yeah, the people that believed the trolls and the fake left and the Enlightened Centrists ™ going on about gEnOcIdE and bOtHsIdEs are going to have Pikachu face for the next 4 years (if we are lucky that it’s only that long).
Enlightened Centrist??? Centrists tend to be the pragmatic ones who looked to vote for biden and then harris and the genociden biden always seem to identify with far left in my experience here anyway. Heck I don’t even consider myself a centrist so much but I am pragmatic and I do find when talking to the far left I definitely appear center to them and to the right (because there is not moderate right that I can see) I am apparently the biggest woke, lefty, communist type like biden or obama.
That label is more aimed at the bothsiderists that claim they are Above It All ™ and like to WellACKCHUALLY everything and everyone. Their favorite tactic is usually to talk about “extremes on both sides”, and pull out their Tone Police card and lecture anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh on civility (this while extremist right wingers are doing things like smashing into the Capitol building and smearing feces everywhere. But the Democrats were seen violating Queensberry Rules, so it’s time for a lecture on rules that only Democrats are held to). Another is to claim that they are an “independent”.
All of this is to the benefit of the actual extremes on the far right. The extreme left is barely a thing. In the United States, anyway. Sure there may be some extremely loud people that seem to be driven by identity politics only and doing a lot to make new Republicans (if you ask me), but they are not really representative of anything, and certainly not the Democratic Party…
yeah I guess the loud portion here was trumpeting how all the lack of votes for kamala was all do to not appeasing them enough and there was a lack of voting somewhere as it was down.
Yeah, quite a few demand to have a pretty pony given to them by the Democrats, or they’ll stamp their foot and go home.
So he’s more popular this time than last time
Why?
Because information literacy is at an all time low, and people are easily swayed by propaganda on their doom rectangles.
And this time, the entire digital media complex is on his side: Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple, Amazon.
Because the electorate is about 51% morons and self-interested people willing to let the country burn for tax cuts that will only benefit about 5% of them.
Least popular, but not unpopular enough to vote against.
About 29% of Americans voted for Trump. If we look only at the people who voted, then about 49% voted for him. Stop trying to make it seem like it’s the people’s fault. The electoral system is clearly broken.
Ummm those that didn’t vote are also responsible. It IS the people’s fault. But they shouldn’t see it that way. Either they are ok with fascism or actively crave it. Apparently the majority of us are fascists or think we are.
You give people too much credit. Most people don’t spend any time researching and critically engaging with politics or even news, and you probably couldn’t force them even if your tried to add compulsory politically neutral civics to the education system. Some people do well in math, but not in science. The same will be true in this class too.
Then there’s propaganda fucking everything up even further. Most people are not immune to propaganda and misinformation, particularly when most of what they know comes from their friends, who are themselves very likely victims of misinformation.
The most disturbing evidence of how uninformed the general public was, “Did Biden drop out?” trending in searches on election day.
Wouldn’t surprise me if some significant percentage of over 18s we’re googling “how to vote?” as the poles were closing… I mean some were still asking a whole day after.
You’re working off of an extremely idealized view of the electoral system.
No I’m not. I’m also not saying it isn’t broken. What I’m saying is usually the more people that vote, the more democratic it gets and that people who don’t care enough to even figure out who’s running in elections are NOT blameless.
Yes, they are. A system that allows a candidate who didn’t even get half the votes to run the country is fundamentally broken and not participating in it, for whatever reason, doesn’t make you at fault. It’s the orphan crushing machine all over again.
Most system allow for that. The major difference is that they have more than 2 viable candidates.
The electoral system is broken.
But people in swing states stayed home. The buck stops there.
There’s also mounting evidence that many of them didn’t actually stay home.
This needs to be its own post, if it isn’t already.
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4,776,706 voters were wrongly purged from voter rolls according to US Elections Assistance Commission data. -
3.24 million new registrations were rejected or not entered on the rolls in time to vote.
Disgraceful tactics for a so called democracy, make it so difficult to vote that people yearn for simpler times with a king putting them to work and telling them to shut up.
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Doesn’t matter; we are still infected with the donvict cancer.
I hope his old age makes his life extremely difficult.
Ngl, I hope he dies. Soon.
Would it make a difference? His VP is a white supremacist, too, and his party still controls both chambers.
Cults of personality don’t transfer power well, generally. I think that is why Project 2025 was such a big deal for them since it gave structure even when trump dies.
This. The demons behind Project 2025 that hate democracy and hate the Constitution are trying to get as much rammed through as possible because they know he won’t last forever and the likelihood of finding another stooge that has sway over the stupid people like donvict does is not great.
Vance? Elon - even if he could run - Vivek? LOL, give me a break, they have zero charisma.
And these stupid people won’t go back to methadone like Jeb or Romney - they got pure China White as donvict and were mainlining his hatred. I’m not sure if the qons will be able to find another donvict. A whole lot of stupid people saw his dumb game show and really do think he’s a businessman, and that “businessman == good”.
It’s not even the businessman thing though. That is just a smokescreen for the fact that he is racist. Mark Cuban is objectively a 50x better capitalist businessman than trump ever was. He campaigned for Harris and all of the “strong businessmen best” people completely did a 180.
It is 100% only hatred and wanting certain people to die and every single other thing they say they care about is a smokescreen as proven by their own actions. Like how now the price of everything suddenly doesn’t matter, because the “right” people are getting hurt.
Just like how DOGE doesn’t actually go after inefficiencies like the extremely corrupt and inefficient military contractor sector but instead goes for things that hurt black people more like school lunches for 6 year olds.
Perhaps this isn’t related to DOGE, but the White House memo also threw the defense industry in a lot of uncertainty over military-related grants possibly getting cut. It’s more likely collateral damage than intentional, though.
True, but that would more likely be affecting military grants involving veteran care like paying for veterens to go to university, job placement programs, etc… They have been itching to do that for a while in between saying “we support the troops”
And the VP is already third in command. Fifth if you count Putin and Thiel.
His death would provide America’s favorite gender-neutral toilet, so that’s something.
Sadly worst ones seem to live the longest 😭
Chin up! There’s always operation Valkyrie 2.0
True but hopefully done with a much better plan lol
Lame duck (maybe), so I don’t think he cares about popularity. He’s pushing out EO’s as fast as he can, and many of them are idiotic.
He was unpopular when voted in…inconsequential reporting
Don’t worry, he’ll get less popular along the way.
Cool I sure wish my rights weren’t being taken away
smae
