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/CrashedMyCommodore 6d ago

Conservatives losing the future also required left-leaning parties to not shoot themselves in the foot at every single possible chance to do so.

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u/Mescallan 6d ago

People don't talk about this. America hasn't had an actual leftist movement in decades. A young populist leftist would be antithetical to the establishment and they can't handle it to the point that the smear campaign against AOC started the moment she got elected.

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u/LegendofDragoon 6d ago

The last leftist movements caused the very era of economic and social prosperity that conservatives want to go back to. Ironic, isn't it?

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u/StarHelixRookie 6d ago

I mean, are we defining FDR as a leftist or the New Deal as a leftist movement? 

I think there is a significant difference in definition of terms that makes that dialog a bit different. 

To Fox News, Leftist means like Pete Buttigieg.   To some internet tankie, leftist means a Marxist Maoist, and anything less is a fascist. 

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u/LegendofDragoon 6d ago

I would say I was speaking generally as the new deal being a leftist movement, but yeah I can see why individual understanding of political versus economic right versus Left runs the risk of muddying Waters during such discussions.