Link: https://newrepublic.com/article/216818/trump-hits-brutal-new-polling-low-and-gop-leaks-grow-truly-humiliating

Donald Trump’s approval just sank to an abysmal 33-66 in the new Washington Post poll, a record low in Post polling. The survey also finds Democrats leading in the battle for the House by eight points. Meanwhile, the new NBC poll also finds Trump below 35 percent and puts the Democratic lead at 10 points. The polling averages also suggest a Democratic lead pressing double digits. Small wonder that Republicans are leaking to Politico that they blame this debacle squarely on Trump. They describe a situation o...

I'm looking forward to him dropping below 30%. I know he can do it, I have faith in him.

How can you humiliate that which has no shame?

Show up to vote people, only one poll matters, other people won't do it for you.

not sure what could be more humiliating than his absolutely unhinged and utterly amoral antics on lake michigan, but sure... i'm sure gop leaks will shame him.

He's at the Sarah Palin floor.

About 1 in 3 Americans seem to have a brain worm. I know, I know, a whole lot of extremely online "leftists" and reactionary centrists are quick to say no one should blame the voters and the Democratic Party is the source of all problems in the world, but....sheesh.

This guy basically lit fire to everything, including the economy, and 1 in 3 still support him.

Go watch some of The Good Liars’ videos from Trump rallies. Like, recent ones. It’s fascinating to see the brain rot.

By crowds of people pointing and laughing in public. These stupid fucks have been given more than enough time and grace to be welcomed back on their own.

I keep bringing this up to people IRL too. I legitimately just do not understand how this is the case. Everyone says it'll keep dropping, but it just hasn't. It's terrifying to know that 1/3 people in the US think like this. I know due to population distribution it's not exactly like this, but imagine if every third person you interacted with in your daily life still supported this. 3 tellers at the bank? One of them is a rabid supporter of a rapist and felon, have fun! How do we even function as a country? There is something deeply wrong with these people and I don't even know where to start. I have gone no contact with a few trumpers in the family and they weren't good people to start with necessarily, but they were contributing members of society. The longer it went on the more angry and entrenched they became. I wonder if they started like this or there's an element of digging in their heels that has made them unable to believe their lying eyes and ears.

Meaningless if people don't kick him and all the Republicans out. We've all seen the corruption and incompetence...

Aren’t these polls always of likely voters, not the public in general?

That third doesn't trust the same news sources that you do; many don't do anything political at all, and just vote by party.

The other third is politically educated, they just disagree with the Democratic party on key issues (like for one example abortion).

Democrats are only a third (28% or so) of voters and shrinking (same with Republican party, 28%).

44% of voters are independent. I know it doesn't seem so on Lemmy, but the real world is a very different place. Why, they didn't even cheer when Charlie Kirk was assassinated! Unbelievable!

They definitely have a brain worm and lead poisoning...my relatives are dumb

Dog shit fat pedophile is still supported by roughly 30% of the freedumn burger lovers. Dude is authoritarian and they worship him like Christ. Was and is the biggest fucking nepo baby loser, got repopular based on a fucking reality TV show. If getting what you deserved was a person.

Why is he still alive?

Maybe Susan Dell needs to join him on the campaign trail to feed on the souls of his supporters

Its either aliens in skin suits, robots in skin suits, or dark magic rituals gone wrong, and I can't tell which.

His supporters don’t have souls

1/3 of the country will either blindly support Trump or the broader Republican Party. Because of a confluence of a lack of mandatory voting; first past the post voting; and the electoral college, 1/3 of eligible voters often decide the outcome of elections. This isn’t so much Trump being DEMOLISHED and EVISCERATED as it is a warning to the rest of the country: show up and vote or they’ll still win, even when Trump is this unpopular. Show up again in 2028. Show up to the primaries.

If your vote literally was meaningless, billionaires wouldn’t spend crazy amounts of money on elections; they’d consider that wasted money which is anathema to their existence.

It doesn't matter. His people have already figured out how to fix the midterms.

America is a criminal enterprise, full stop.

Well they came for the promises but stayed for the racism and hatred which the administration has succeeded at.

Eh, that 44% number is probably something that nearly evaporates if you were to actually dig deeper on these so-called "independents".

Eh, I wouldn't say it 'evaporates'. These are people who don't like the job either party has done but certainly think one party has done a much worse job. Which they would never vote for.

So they're not going to change parties but they are hungry for a new party (or a significant change in an existing party).

I'd describe it as a political powder keg waiting to blow if the right forces are applied to it. In a word its discontent, people who's interests are not being represented by the political process.

You could say Trump tapped into that discontent a bit by appealing to the ones who think the parties aren't racist enough against immigrants.

He didn't dispense with the energy because the things he said were problems are largely figments of the racists imagination. So now some immigrants are dead or in concentration camps and those racists are no better off.

DSA is also trying to tap into that energy. Time will tell if they can wield it to become an enduring force in American politics.

Last time there was a powder keg like this that went off FDR was the one that lit the fuse and he won 4 terms. The establishment hated him so much they passed term limits.

That's what it looks like when someone successfully taps into it in a way that actually resolves the material problems in peoples lives.

“It's tempting to use the analogy of rats fleeing a sinking ship to describe the growing number of Republican elected officials starting to speak out against Donald Trump. But that's really not fair to rats, who tend not to be complicit in driving ships to the bottom of the sea.”

-Dan Rather (back in October 2020)

I'm a school bus driver, in a district where trump is universally despised (in the '24 election Harris signs outnumbered trump signs 30:1 and that's not an exaggeration). In the bus garage, though, the drivers are about 80% trumpers. The commonalities I've noticed in the trumpers are:

• They live elsewhere
• They are older (60+)
• They are in horrible shape, overweight, fucked-up knees, smoking-related illnesses etc.
• They don't have college degrees
• They are amazingly dumb, outside of the lack of education
• They have no sense of humor, do not understand joking or sarcasm
• They drive aggressively, speeding and ignoring stop signs
• They hate black people and Jews

I don't think these observations would surprise anyone.

No corporate media outlet today would publish it. 30% is the absolute lowest they will ever publish. They are all hoping he will win a third term. The media made him and they will apparently do anything to keep him. Fuck corporate media.

These are people who don’t like the job either party has done

There are a few of those. And there is also a large contingent of self-described independents who don't want to admit that they're brainless mouth breathers, yet still vote for Trump. I call them embarrassed fascists.

Odd that you should omit changelings, golems and dumb-ass rubes. And yeah, those categories might overlap.

Holy shit, I took your suggestion and you are not wrong. Serious brain rot. I've watched a few, and these are hilarious. Watching the Grand Island one right now.

Klepper tends to have similar stuff, but it's kind of quick clips. This is a huge dose of OMG and holy shit.

This reminds me of so many conversations I had in the deeply red area where I grew up. These kinds of idiotic conversations are much more infrequent for me these days. This is pure unadulterated idiocy, though, because these are all self-selected people that chose to go listen to donnie, for hours.

Yeah, I love Klepper but his goal is a bit on The Daily Show. What I appreciate about The Good Liars is that they push. They keep asking people to expand or give examples and it really highlights how vapid so many of them are.

Oh other people absolutely WILL do it for them. That what non-voting does. It surrenders their vote to those that will chose for them.

Yeah, those statistics definitely cannot be used to equate "independent" with "centrist" or suggest those voters are undecided.

I'm not registered with a political party so they probably count me as an independent. I'm not registered because it's not required for the primary.

But I can't imagine anything that would convince me to vote for anyone who voluntarily calls themself a Republican in the modern era.

Edit: weird, how'd a 6-day old post show up on my feed. Oh well...