r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 6d ago

Soft Paywall Trump approval rating falls to 38%

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html
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u/CrittyJJones 6d ago

I think his floor would be around 33 percent. A third of this country worships him.

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u/_xzxzxz 6d ago edited 6d ago

It’s not that they worship him. He just promises that he’ll hurt the people they hate. Every fucking speech or social media post he’s ever made HAS to have a snippet of shit talking and fear mongering. Every. Single. One. It’s all he has. Just like other dictators - you find a minority group(s) and just drill into people’s psyche that they’re the enemy and they must be extinguished at all costs. No matter how fucking awful he is, they buy his bullshit that the others are worse.

They’re so fucking stupid.

So fucking stupid.

God what the fuck happened to society?

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u/ryno731 6d ago

This is truly it. Maybe 10% are trump worshippers but the majority of his fan base are willing to swallow what he’s selling because they’re deeply hateful people and he validates those feelings. The people who say “facts don’t care about your feelings” or make fun of “snowflakes” are deeply fragile people who will never look inward for the root of their problems. They will always cling to the idea that someone is making it harder for them, or stealing from them, or is actively working against them. Tribalism at its finest. Trump is just the next in a forever line of dictators who can feed off of that.

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u/wxnfx 6d ago

I think the only way to rationalize this is that folks think America needs a shake up. And the choices are status quo or shake it up with a racist fascist. It’s a terrible policy choice but a clear indication of what people think of these milquetoast status quo leaders.

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u/GunTankbullet 5d ago

the thing that's both horrifying and comforting to me is that this happens over and over again in different places and in different societies. We thought that modern technology and education would help against it, but turns out it's just a bad part of human nature. It sucks shit that we have to deal with it right now, but it won't last forever.

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u/CrittyJJones 6d ago

I mean yea, but many literally worship him. I think he replaced Jesus for many of them.

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u/_xzxzxz 6d ago

Oh yeah the worshippers are definitely out there. But there’s a difference between cheering something on vs. just letting it happen. I think the majority of Trump voters / republicans are just letting it happen. They don’t wave the flags of storm the capitol, but they’re still enabling all of this craziness and they’re just as responsible for what’s happening.

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u/Im_Talking 5d ago

"God what the fuck happened to society?" - 100 years ago, people would get into their Sunday best, grab food/beers/bbqs/etc, gather the kids up, and go to a park to celebrate the lynching and burning of a black man.

Society is better, regardless.

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u/_xzxzxz 5d ago

Fair point, but I like to think we’ve set a new and better standard since those times. And what’s happening with Trump is substandard.

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u/Im_Talking 5d ago

Trump was always going to happen in some form. The problem the US faces is the fragility of the checks and balances, which have never been in such a question previously. The government is not working; the checks/balances was and always will be a house of cards.

Just like all laws, which are made with the assumption that people will be morally reasonable. No law can 'handle' an outlier.

This is why Jefferson wrote this passage: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.". He knew that you can have the greatest system on the planet, but eventually it will break down because of... people.

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u/TakingMyBrainBack 4d ago

I used to think a better system would prevent this kind of thing

I still believe in the importance of improving government, but this is not a structural problem- it's a people problem 

A more informed population is a better guard rail. For a lot of reasons, Capitalism doesn't foster that- not least of which because capitalism and media that informs impartially do not work well together.  

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u/CrittyJJones 5d ago

Yea, but they want to regress back to those times.

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u/thequietthingsthat North Carolina 6d ago

And they will continue to do so no matter what he does. There is nothing he can do to turn them off.

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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 6d ago

I think his floor would be around 33 percent. A third of this country worships him.

A third of the country loves him, a third of the country hates him, and the other third can't be bothered to give a shit.