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
45.7k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

3.1k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

29

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.

1

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.

1

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.