Maybe I spend too much surveying and focus grouping but I find this result on whether we've left "normal" partisan politics and entered authoritarianism encouraging: 55% of voters see the latter as true.
Idk, push comes to shove, I'd answer with the former, as I see the current regime being more of an evolution of travesties like the Patriot Act, the Iraq War, constitutional amendments banning gay marriage, prior GOP attempts to gut SocSec, and Guantanamo Bay than any kind of radical break from it.
I can see 2 segments (pure speculation): 1) still lots of registered Ds out there that crossed over ideologically to Trump long time ago and 2) leftists that see present capitalism/corporatism as far closer to authoritarianism that the rest of Ds do
Yeah, I was gonna say something about that, that this *is* basically what the republican party has always been, simply with its mask of civility slipping off, and what "democracy" has been in this country as well, it's just hitting the people with the money to make their votes heard now
And then there are voters' desires to have Dems stand up to Trump. First, from Navigator, giving us a look at how much voters - especially independents - want Dems to stand up to Trump, relative to 2018. (Note error in label - this was from Feb 2025 not 2024.)
Efforts to make the Trump regime back the fuck off are popular. We asked about a bunch of them. First stop, Maine Governor Janet Mills is up +33 on telling Trump she'll see him in court.
#TeslaTakedown protests are +12 across voters. Republican voters don't love them, of course. So much for the customer being right and the market being free!
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Still not strong enough understanding of the peril.
How to breakthrough the sleepwalking
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