Stunning poll findings:
Marist now has Trump at only 46% approval *among rural voters,* who voted for him by overwhelming margins in 2024.
And CNN finds more that 40% of those who *approve of Trump* expect a recession next year.
As we discuss here, it's premature to say his base will never crack:
Marist now has Trump at only 46% approval *among rural voters,* who voted for him by overwhelming margins in 2024.
And CNN finds more that 40% of those who *approve of Trump* expect a recession next year.
As we discuss here, it's premature to say his base will never crack:
Reposted from
Greg Sargent
This is wild. Fox News is telling viewers the polls showing Trump tanking can't be right because he's a world-historical success. But even some callers to right wing media are saying the tariffs are a huge problem for them.
Exchange w @mattgertz.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
Exchange w @mattgertz.bsky.social on this:
newrepublic.com/article/1948...
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Trump - assisted by MSM - knows how to suck the oxygen out of the room when it counts.
Democrats- get your act together 🙏🏼
These are the same folks sent into a spittle-flecked rage that filling the F-150 tank under Biden cost $100
That's even more true for the midterms. Huge swaths of the MAGA base might just sit them out.
Poll numbers won’t make the republicans in Congress do the right thing. Whether it’s fear, money, power, proximity to power…they hitched a ride with the con-man and are going to hold on until the whole country is burned to the ground.
I recognize that we only need a few in each chamber to cross over. Just saying it has to come from them, yesterday.
We can’t just pin our hopes on winning those seats in ‘26. There’s a lot more damage they can do before then.
we have one MAGA who we can actually ask things:
deportations: "He's getting rid of all the bad people"
destroying NIH: "We have enough science already. we don't need more science"
Where to get news: "I watch FOX, that's it"
amazed any of them are reachable
2) Will that dissatisfaction survive the first competitive election, where Democrats will inevitably and falsely be painted as “even worse!!!”
His reply: Obama/Biden also bait&switched on gay marriage. All politicians lie.
Trying to convince himself.
Suffering is very elevated in christian cultures
Rural America has a class action lawsuit against FOX for misleading them to ignore Project 2025 and vote for a felon.
What matters more are the approval ratings of his enablers who must stand for reelection next year. Without them, he would be just another crazy person without power.
I hope those fuckers loose everything.
they're not thinking this could actually be worse.
Not so sure about cultists though
MAGA weaponized populism.
But it was always about elite capture.
It does however greatly increase the chances for scapegoating and other drastic distractions.
we don't need MAGA core to vote Dem. We need the clueless/wallet/last minute voters and non voters (too many) to turn out and vote Dem; and to pick off enough MAGA to just stay home.
The 2/3’s of us not insane can save this country and its future but only if they get out and stop this insanity with the power of casting their vote!
The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one.