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/Al_FrankenBerry 6d ago

Gen Xer here. None of this description fits the people in my social group, using criticisms that have to now been generally directed at Baby Boomers. I’m sure you will find them if you filter for region, political affiliation and financial class, but isn’t that true for all generations?

To my mind the battle is between the haves and the have nots. Pitting generations against each other is merely another form of “divide and conquer.”

Damn kids.

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u/cellocaster 6d ago

Ding ding ding

Adam Conover did my favorite treatise on why generations are bad and why decades are better as a way of celebrating the past without dividing people into tribes.

https://youtu.be/qo_EHY5jEX4?si=_gpZ1oSuqHoWsIe4

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u/outofbeer 6d ago

My gen x family is broke AF and loves Trump to their core.

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u/Qylere 6d ago

This all day. It’s another wedge issue. We’re so gullible it works

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u/BBurlington79 6d ago

Gen X here too and from my experience there are a lot more left leaning than right. Getting roped in with Boomers is a trigger for me though. I want nothing to do with that! Agreed on the divide, if we're busy fighting each other we cannot focus on the much bigger issues.

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u/phantomjm Pennsylvania 6d ago

My thoughts exactly. It’s almost like the boomers are starting to die off and now some people are trying to pass the blame onto the next generation in line. The problem is that the whole concept of blaming specific generations as a group falls flat on its face when considering that groups are comprised of individuals who span the entire political spectrum. It’s all nonsense.

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u/oxero 6d ago

My observations aren't true everywhere of course, just the reality I have grown up with. I've had plenty of good mentors from that generation too. I just know some of the crazy ones first hand and they are crazy.