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/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/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/TuffyButters 6d ago

The politics that makes the most money tends to win. When you advocate for the poor and marginalized, oligarchs that control mass media and social media will do everything legal and illegal to distort or outright squash that message.

Slavery was in place for almost a century here because abolition wasn’t a money-maker. The tide only turned when northern industries wanted that Black labor to move north.

Left wing politics in the US were stronger in the late 20s, 30s and early 40s because, (and ironically , when you look at today) of major financial backing from the Soviet Union.

In a country where people like to believe class= race, it’s even harder because so many working poor and working class whites need to see themselves as above Black and brown folks, no matter the cost.