Pretty much all the Project 2025 policies poll in the 20% range. Republican members of Congress are already getting screamed at during town halls in friendly territory. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u... 2x - ThreadSky

zingherpolisci.bsky.social • 16 hours ago

Pretty much all the Project 2025 policies poll in the 20% range. Republican members of Congress are already getting screamed at during town halls in friendly territory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/us/politics/republicans-congress-town-halls-trump.html

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cavcdr66.bsky.social•16 hours ago

And….

steveroth.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Got a link handy on that 20% number? Thx.

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Here’s one, but there are lots.

https://www.umass.edu/news/article/new-umass-amherst-poll-finds-project-2025-policy-proposals-wildly-unpopular-among

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•16 hours ago

People don’t like the government as a whole but are broadly supportive of all kinds of government policies. People are going to start feeling the pain from lack of government services. They need to know who’s to blame here. That’s the Democrats job. 3x

demdifference.bsky.social•15 hours ago

"People ... need to know who to blame here. That's the Democrats job."

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Let's get to it.

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Public opinion matters even in non democratic systems. Elected officials need to feel public pressure. It’s a pretty simple organizing principle for the Democrats. Yet, right now the masses seem ahead of the elites in terms of opposing authoritarian drift. This is a problem 4/x

beatorganizer.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It might not be a problem for civil society is ahead of party elite opposition.

https://bsky.app/profile/guygrossman.bsky.social/post/3ligcwrgmfk2o

beatorganizer.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Likewise, seems most important that there's a broad, diverse coalition. The more creative and varied its approaches, the better.

https://lifeisasacredtext.com/organize/

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•16 hours ago

If the Democratic leadership can’t find its footing soon they’re at risk of a full blown Tea Party style voter revolt. I fully expect some big name Dems to go down in primaries next year. 5x

jsievert.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Don’t threaten me with a good time!

transylvaniantwist.bsky.social•8 hours ago

I vote we call it the coffee party. Coffee is for closers. Coffee drinkers get shit done. America runs on the working class and the working class drinks coffee.

ahideousthing.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Good: maybe they'll get replaced by someone who wants to help the people of the USA.

ifutzwithfire.bsky.social•15 hours ago

I’m watching for an attempt to remove some sooner. Low confidence in success, but there’s no telling. Certainly a lot of us don’t feel safe putting it off another day, forget another year. What little trust was left is gone… understand I’m in Boston. I’m talking about Warren & Markey. And I’m *done*

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•16 hours ago

There’s a big bright spot here, though. Trump’s agenda is unpopular and almost entirely executive focused. The Republican congress isn’t even making an attempt to do anything beyond forming a budget, and they’re playing with fire there. 6x

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•16 hours ago

A successful opposition can work! There is no electoral magic at work here. Trump’s approval is already fading, and he’s more popular than any other Republican. Stop him, or at least slow him down, and you buy time for the rest of the system to push back. There are reasons for hope. 7x

bygonebegotrisk.bsky.social•11 hours ago

It seems to me that where Trump is going to have problems is with American culture. Sure, low-info voters might not know much about the constitution, but there are many traditions of freedom in the US — free speech, free assembly, freedom to vote, etc. — that people are used to.

bygonebegotrisk.bsky.social•12 hours ago

✊

flowerrypott.bsky.social•15 hours ago

People yelling at GOP reps is a good sign. But Dem reps need to feel the heat also. Yes, Dems, we get it; you're stymied legislatively. OTOH you have immense resources to fight back *politically*.

zingherpolisci.bsky.social•16 hours ago

But it’s going to take a lot of sustained effort and good leadership to push back. I think people like AOC, Pritzker, Jasmine Crockett, Chris Murphy, Maxwell Frost, and others are starting to fill the leadership void, which was gaping during the first weeks 8/x

amberlulu.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Where is Harris??

anotherdrmuller.bsky.social•13 hours ago

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social @raskin.house.gov @jimmcgovernma.bsky.social @edmarkey.bsky.social @warren.senate.gov we need your leadership now more than ever.

rocketmansparty.bsky.social•10 hours ago

I am engineer, not an economist but I've got 45 yrs inside and outside government doing analysis. This is what I see forward to us if we continue with Chuck Koch's Project 2025.

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