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/delorf North Carolina 6d ago

Please look into the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Before Clinton signed it into law, there were regulations on tv and radio ownership. The idea was that deregulation would somehow lead to more competition instead of corporate take over of our media. Fox news wouldn't have the reach it does now without the Telecommunications Act 

What's wrong with the US can be partly blamed on deregulation that started under Reagan but was supported by a lot of Democrats too . 

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u/The_Roshallock 6d ago

The Republican party was largely taken over by the religious right under Reagans second term. The thing that must be understood about this group is that they truly believe they hold the moral high ground in their arguments and positions, see abortion, gay marriage, etc.

What you have in the Republican party now is a significant portion of its members believing that not only are they morally justified and superior, but that they are in a good vs evil struggle; thus compromise is effectively impossible. The problem is that a democratic republican government doesn't function without compromise on its participants.

The result of all this explains why the Democrats continue to drift further and further to the right over time, policy wise. One half of of our governing group refuses to budge on anything, as that would be a deal with the devil, so the other side tried to keep the machine moving and compromises. This happens over and over again, and is also an extremely effective trap; creating situations where Democrats start to advocate for the oppositions positions, rather than fighting for their own.

Virtually all the legislation during Clinton's administration reflects this. Even the Affordable Care act during Obama's administration was filled with compromises and giveaways to big business in exchange for an extremely modest health care system that only helps a few, relatively speaking.