Study released a day before State of the Union address shows president has lost support among Republicans
Most US adults think Donald Trump is moving the country in the wrong direction during his second presidency, according to a new NPR/PBS News/Marist poll released the day before his State of the Union speech.
Fifty-five percent of adults feel that Trump is changing the country for the worse, a 13-point increase from around the same time of his first presidency, the survey conducted from 27 to 30 January found.
The number of people who held that view also increased four points from April.
Unsurprisingly, support for the president splits down party lines.
Pretty much everybody I know on the right (and conservative) fall into 2 camps:
“There’s only 2 pronouns, male and female” or “I don’t keep up with the news these days”.
When that’s what progress is going up against, and it’s nearly 50% (or more) of the population, I just don’t know how we can continue as a country.
Sure wish y’all could have seen this like idk, 3-10 years ago!
I thought the Pedo-in-Chief demanded we stop polling him? Lol
He called off the oldest reliable pollster, Gallup. He didn’t say twitter and others had to stop. Weird a president can do that.
He didn’t win Elon and Thiel rigged the election they found evidence in Georgia
i don’t read polls often. this one was worth reading.
Electing a felon rapist pedophile who spends every day trying to divide our nation was a bad idea?
And they’re voting Republican again anyway!
Here in California, the top two candidates for governor going into the primary, are varying degrees of MAGA. Fucking insane.
For the dumb dumbs that voted for him but now think he’s moving in the wrong direction, just what they fuck did they think he was going to do?
He ran on carrying out vendettas against his personal enemies and doing incredibly stupid shit like culture wars, tariffs, and mass deportation.
No, I assure you, I am a loser… But I never supported Trump in anything, and certainly not as a politician.
I would support however his effort to furtilize a random field in Montana with his corpse. But nothing else really.
Not all losers support Trump for all Trump supporters are losers.
Your inability to figure out this simple logic mapping indicates your self-assessment is otherwise correct.
hey easy clent some of us were edumacated in statesia here
Looks like people took my comment too serious; looks like you’ve uncovered the reason.
Looks like peole
i am glad you are taking it with good humor
Yeah. I really need to double check that shit. Makes me look half as foolish as I really am.
Usual thing with these people: “I didn’t think he would hurt me”
Probably the same assholes that keep talking about animals infiltrating human society. Bunch’a rubes, if you ask me.
My face!
they think he was going to do?
This. but not to THEM.
I remember talking to a relative of mine (he’s a redcap) and we were talking about the economy a few months into 2025.
He said something about how Pedonald was “fixing” the supposedly terrible Biden economy. I asked him what was so bad during the Biden economy…both he and I had steady jobs. He said something phrased in a kind of passive-aggressive way about how maybe the “wrong” people were doing well - implication being ME and other people present that were not redcaps were not doing poorly and that was a problem. I pointed out that I worked a steady job through his first term, too.
And I could tell that reminding him of this annoyed him. I think he expressed some kind of wish that maybe this term Pedonald would do better at harming people like me, at least economically if not something more directly nefarious. We were interrupted by other people (lots of people at this gathering) before I could ask more questions.
These people are truly warped. Sure, in my weaker moments, I express vitriol towards the redcaps and don’t always say the nicest things about them. But I really don’t want them and their spouses and their children to go without healthcare, shelter, food, a job with dignity, clean air and clean water, etc…I’ve seen lots of the redcaps really champion death and so on online, and definitely I’ve seen them talk about it abstractly IRL, too.
But to have a relative stand there and tell you that they want harm done to you and your family is another matter altogether.
When you think about it that way it’s no surprise they worship the Orange Pedo as the Second Coming of Christ. You’ve been Living A Wicked Life and have Gone Down The Path Of Sin, and so you deserve to be smited by the divine! But the divine never answered his prayers; you and all those other icky upstart ‘sinful people’ kept having a nice job and everything that he felt should be taken from you.
And then Trump comes along and grants his prayers with deportations and shootings and everything else he thinks you deserve. Is it any wonder he’s willing to suffer himself, as long as you ‘get what’s coming to you’?
I think the biggest thing that was so wild to learn about this relative was when they expressed that my wife and I going to college has basically tainted us. It is their belief that going to a university basically ruins anyone that attends. That’s some real tell me you know nothing about higher education without telling me…
So, in this case, the major problem with me (and my wife) is getting a higher education and not supporting the GOP. That’s about the extent of what they know about our politics, really. It’s not like we sit around reeling off readings of Karl Marx at gatherings like this.
Well you said it. They are dumb dumbs. And dumb dumbs believe the first thing they are told, any information that they are given after that is “fake news”.
Remember a few years ago there was a push to not call his supporters dumb, that they were much worse than that. Thing is, they can be both a reprehensible person beyond reproach and a dumbass at the same time.
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Kill people they don’t like, of course. I’m sure there are a few people who want a legal reason to murder the woman who unmatched and blocked them on Tinder.
Surely the shocking news here is that 45% of voters don’t believe he is moving the USA in the wrong direction?!
What? Americans voted for him to move USA backwards, and he is moving USA backwards!
They got what they asked for.Hey, as long as he doesn’t raise taxes on our rulers everything is okay.
Tax cuts for the 1%, just like was voted for. 👍
You have to remember it’s expensive to be rich. Those private jets and yachts don’t pay themselves.
It seems there may be cause for hope that Trump is fucking up so bad he is losing the moderate Republican vote.
While these numbers look good, I wouldn’t hold my hopes high. Moderate republicans might be changing opinion but if they don’t swing enough to vote a dem, it won’t change anything.
And this is only if the elections happen and are fair, two things that right now are not granted.
These people will never vote dem. The best that can be done is to convince them to never vote again.
It doesn’t matter if they change their opinion on Trump they are still dumbasses and will fall for the next conman that says stupid hateful shit.
They don’t need to vote dem, they just need to lose motivation to vote (either not vote at all, or vote for anyone non-GOP). The GOP cannot afford to lose many votes, so long as the elections are fair, as you say. The elections will happen in some shape or form (remember, even Russia has “”“elections”“”). The GOP has seats up for election and upcoming vacancies.
It’s just a matter of how fair they’ll be.
I’d like to hear from the minority who belive “6 feet under” is the right direction to be moving.
They’ll still vote for Republicans though, because it’s a part of their identity, and it’s in their nature to be hateful and ignorant
A lot of them think along the lines of following generational trends. Such as their dad voted Republican, and their grandad did too, so they will do so blindly.
Duuurrrrrrrrrrrr
The only thing that gives me hope we can at least semi fix the direction things are going is that at least for Hitler, most of the population fervently approved of Hitler.
That’s not the case here.
But that could just slow things down.
All bets are off at this point.
How do you know most of the population fervently approved of Hitler?
Well, it’s kinda impossible to know for sure, as anyone not targeted by the Hitler regime as enemies was still discouraged from publicly, or even privately, disagreeing with the party.
But there was likely some poll or support data available to scholars at different points that would give an idea of actual support at those points.
I don’t have those details, and am not who you were asking, but I did hear support dwindled as the US entered the war. And, logically, it was probably higher when he was elected then when the war started getting real nasty.
Most people start not liking their leadership when their leaders actions cause them personal distress.
I’ve heard 60% approved of him taking power. It was from a documentary you tube video.
I guess I’m not 100% sure where they got the number from.
Pretty sure it was an infographic video.
Maybe this one. It’s been a few months since I watched it.
Hitler had the Hitler youth who were pretty intense. And plus a lot of citizens got the stuff he stole from their Jewish neighbors. Or at least sold to them at a discount.
The people were mostly fine with these spoils.
Vor what it’s worth, the most votes Hitler’s party ever received on a national level was “just” 37%.
How did he win the election then ?
He didn’t. In fact his results in the final free election were considerably worse than the year before. He had to enter a coalition with the Centre Party that enabled him to destroy the Weimar democracy from within.
On 9 January 1933, Papen and Hindenburg agreed to form a new government that would bring in Hitler. On the evening of 22 January in a meeting at the villa of Joachim von Ribbentrop in Berlin, Papen made the concession of abandoning his claim to the chancellorship and committed to support Hitler as chancellor in a proposed “Government of National Concentration”, in which Papen would serve as vice-chancellor and Minister-President of Prussia. On 23 January, Papen presented to Hindenburg his idea for Hitler to be made chancellor, while keeping him “boxed” in. On the same day Schleicher, to avoid a vote of no-confidence in the Reichstag when it reconvened on 31 January, asked the president to declare a state of emergency. Hindenburg declined and Schleicher resigned at midday on 28 January. Hindenburg formally gave Papen the task of forming a new government.
In the morning of 29 January, Papen met with Hitler and Hermann Göring at his apartment, where it was agreed that Papen would serve as vice-chancellor and Commissioner for Prussia. It was in the same meeting that Papen first learned that Hitler wanted to dissolve the Reichstag when he became chancellor and, once the Nazis had won a majority of the seats in the ensuing elections, to activate the Enabling Act in order to be able to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag. When the people around Papen voiced their concerns about putting Hitler in power, he asked them, “What do you want?” and reassured them, “I have the confidence of Hindenburg! In two months, we’ll have pushed Hitler so far into the corner that he’ll squeal.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_von_Papen#Bringing_Hitler_to_power
So he got into power without any voting. ? Am I understanding you correctly ?
So in that case I guess we don’t know very accurately how many people supported him at that point.
It would probably be speculating at best to his popularity.
It does seem though in general, initially he was fairly popular with the people and some of the other politicians.
