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Trump slammed over latest ‘disgusting’ attack on another female reporter
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Rest assured that most Americans are not okay with this. Several people have tried to kill this guy and he is wildly unpopular with American voters today:
Trump’s base is filled with the worst people America has to offer, amplified by decades of extreme and growing wealth inequality. Sadly, the real danger of fascism is that it almost always begins as a populist movement based on extreme grievance. Ironically, it is the same income inequality causing that grievance that is also funding its redirection into right-wing and racist sentiments.
The plan has always been to use Trump’s populist but ultimately meaningless gestures as a distraction from the implementation of extreme Christian Nationalist and White Nationalist policies. However, the more the effects of these policies are seen and harm the American people, the less popular Trump becomes. Republican support is faltering, and there are already rats deserting the sinking ship.
The race is on now to cheat the American people out of the next upcoming elections before MAGA support collapses and the opportunity to form a fully authoritarian government is gone. Americans still have a lot to lose and incredibly, our current Democratic system is still churning away and successfully eradicating fascist elements one by one. So, mass rebellion doesn’t really make sense at this stage of the game especially for Trump’s petty, childish, and ultimately distractionary squabbles.
You have a different definition of "wildly unpopular" than I do.
By comparison Friederich Merz, the German Chancellor, has a 13% approval rating. Emanuel Macron, the French President, has an approval rating of 18% . Those are politicians I would call wildly unpopular, not people with almost 40% approval. The sad fact is that quite a lot of Americans approve of this.
America has long curated and groomed gullible people to be anti-Enlightenment. To distrust science and facts and critical thinking.
These people are the base. They are the W/Sarah Palin/Nixon floor - the people that approve of the Republican no matter how awful and inept and unqualified the candidate is. When Hillary was talking about "deplorables", she was talking about this core group.
My guess is that since education here is so hollowed out and so many snake-handlers do things like home-schooling, teaching nothing but the bible, and we still allow white-flight schools so that the insular world they seek is nearly complete - and that as a result we have more of these kinds of people than other countries.
40% is an extremely low approval rating in a two-party electoral college system like the US.
In the US, each election is only really decided by 10% of non-partisan Americans, who live in the swing states.
90% of other votes don't matter, because those are permanently blue or permanently red states, and they cancel each other out.
So for Trump to lose 10% of Americans would mean to lose 100% of people who decide election outcomes.
No those were fake AF, IDC what they say no way those were real
Seriously
Yea seriously
“Democratic system”? Not hing about your system is democratic. He is easily stealing the midterms. I predict nothing will happen, people won’t do shit and just accept. And in two years they’ll just do it again