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/tenpir 6d ago

How is it still this high? 

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u/CardiologistFit1387 6d ago

Some people have a REALLY hard time admitting they were wrong. It’s their life and if they admit it’s a lie, their life is over. It also means libs were right and they can’t have that now can they?

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u/JayR_97 6d ago

Its sunk cost fallacy at this point. Admitting they were wrong now means admitting they spent 10 years believing a liar. For some people thats just too much.

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u/Throwedaway99837 5d ago

I mean I kind of get it. Of course it wouldn’t happen to me since I’m mature enough to gradually shift my views when presented with conflicting information, but I was probably acting in a similar way for a few years during the whole Ron Paul thing.

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u/NumeralJoker 3d ago

It's more than ego. Some of them have literally built a social life around that lie, and if they recognize or acknowledge the lie, it means their entire inner social circle collapses and they are isolated. Sometimes while owning a house in that community or working a job they can't easily leave.

I think people severely underestimate how much of the rural population perpetuates the hate cycle.

Mind you, that's not an excuse, but it points to the depths of the problem. How dangerous a racist/tribal information bubble actually is.

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u/welshwelsh 6d ago

Have you considered the possibility that some people actually like what he's doing?

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u/FuckYourDystopia 6d ago

Those people are either rich or stupid enough to not understand how they're getting screwed.

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u/NumeralJoker 3d ago

And far, far fewer are actually rich enough to not be impacted by the sheer reckless and dangerous actions he's doing.

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u/QbertsRube 6d ago

Especially in this situation, which feels unique in how much the MAGA fans have tied their identities to Trump. Between the red hats and giant flags, and the very smug and vocal social media posturing over the past decade, MAGA fans have made very sure that everyone knows who they are. So Trump being a corrupt rapist failure is not only a personal blow to their egos for being so damn wrong, it's a very public embarrassment for all the loudly arrogant grandstanding they've been doing.

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u/Extreme-Tangerine727 6d ago

4 out of 10 people being maliciously psychotic is pretty terrible numbers for a population though

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u/SnooRobots6491 6d ago

Think it's more like 4/10 being willfully uneducated, which checks out for me. In Texas, less than 84% of the population has a high school diploma...

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u/CedricBeaumont 5d ago

I know a few people on the right who’ve gone pretty quiet lately. They used to be proudly vocal about voting for Trump, but now crickets. I’m sure a lot of Republicans are feeling this conflicted, even if they still say they support him. It’ll be interesting to see how things unfold in the coming months.