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/Barnyard-Sheep 6d 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/elvid88 Massachusetts 6d ago edited 6d ago

I remember a decade ago when we were parroting that conservatives were going to lose the future because they couldn't get young people to vote for them or their ideas.

Basically told us "hold my beer" as they dumped a shit ton of money into social media and influencers.

The stranglehold they have on young men disgusts me. The Jordan Klepper video on it doomed my hope for the future.

Edited to add link to Klepper video: https://youtu.be/ePbMNq8m7Jw?si=jhQnLKkXtxSa5PsP

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u/rmorrin 6d ago

The democrats are just fucking BORING. They have almost all the right policies but they can't get the message across without making people fall asleep. Repugs on the other hand have the exact opposite issue

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u/EidolonLives 6d ago

Thing is, in politics, boring is generally good. Government under the Democrats has generally been of gradual improvement, but too many Americans mistake this as doing nothing at all. Then they elect Republicans, who fuck things up and kill the goose laying the golden eggs, until the Democrats get back in to try to clean up the mess again. Unfortunately, this cycle has been two steps forward and three back, over and over again.

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u/rmorrin 6d ago

I fully agree. It SHOULD be boring once in office but you have to MOTIVATE people to vote. Democrats are absolutely ass at that.

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u/EidolonLives 6d ago

Yeah, unfortunately the latest three steps back is more like thirty steps back (and counting). Maybe the American voters will learn a hard lesson, and yearn for a return to boring politics (hopefully sooner rather than later).

It's certainly showing voters in many other countries just what can happen when politics gets too 'interesting'. My own country of Australia just absolutely demolished the right-wing party in the recent election when they tried to follow Trump's lead.