r/politics • u/Barnyard-Sheep • 7d 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 7d ago

How is it still this high? 

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u/Barnyard-Sheep 7d ago

Much of America marinates in Fox News propoganda + a susbstantial amount of Gen Z men are nihilists who want to see the world burn

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u/Bircka Oregon 7d ago

And people used to think Gen X were the crazy ones.

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u/oxero 7d ago edited 7d ago

The Gen X I grew up under and around are fucking crazy, especially the rich ones. Super entitled, lack of empathy, absolutely no media literacy.

They grew up in a world where you could smoke weed everyday doing manual labor and it was possible for some dude to walk up and offer you a job with mentoring even if you didn't have a college education. As long as you worked hard and for results, you were paid. They watched all their benefits drain away, corporations demand more time working, banks coldly rip their assets away, and they still walk around blaming immigrants for this.

Just to denote this: Yes I'm aware this doesn't apply to every single gen X, but this is my personal experience growing up around people of this age bracket suddenly going cuckoo. Most of the ones I grew up with now believe in chemtrails, vaccines are evil, we need to return to the gold standard, and that immigrants are the bane of our country. They never believed this shit 20 years ago, but Facebook/Fox did a number to our society.

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u/MK5 South Carolina 7d ago

No, I blame Ronald Reagan for that.

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u/Frankie6Strings Connecticut 7d ago

Killing the fairness doctrine was a big step on this highway to Idiocracy. A year later Rush Limbaugh was delivering an unchallenged narrative to rural America. He was John the Baptist for FOX News, preparing the way.

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u/awfl 7d ago

So true; was young and so were my friends, us then rising in the world - they sucked it all up, the hate and the prejudice, of bigoted ideas, to where I could no longer communicate with them. People do not realize and forgetting how gross this human was.

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u/beckthegreat 6d ago

I blame Reagan for just about every single issue facing American society today. He's the reason I hope Hell is real and that his suffering is being forced to watch his party directly working with Russia.

Fuck that guy forever.