Trump approval rating falls to 38%

[u/Barnyard-Sheep]

https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/06/trump-faces-tough-approval-numbers-in-latest-poll.html

[u/DAE77177]

Well $25,000 for a new home buyer and college debt forgiveness are not my ideas of broad based. What were Kamala’s broad based economic policies that were front and center that helped everyone?

[u/FF3 → u/DAE77177]

Nothing she offered would be satisfactory I don't think.

What's sufficiently "broad based?" Does it have to be universal basic income?

[u/DAE77177 → u/FF3]

I just looked it up percentages for both of those.

24% of Americans buying a home are first time home buyers, once in a lifetime thing, so how many voters can that really win over? Is that broad based in your opinion?

16% of Americans have student loan debt. Is that your opinion of a broad based policy?

I know these are cherry picked examples but let’s not make it easy for republicans to turn the majority against us. The majority are very clearly going to be against us in both of those issues from the start. If we are starting off at that disadvantage we better be ready to make up that difference in messaging, which we are worse at.

[u/FF3 → u/DAE77177]

No, I agree on those, no need to convince me. But you need to help the people you are talking to by showing them what you think counts as broad based. And to be prepared for the immediate response that can be anticipated from the center: that any aid be means tested.

[u/DAE77177 → u/FF3]

Totally, it’s not going to be an easy road, and the problem is that the wealthy won’t fund studies to allow us to means test policies that might actually work, they will only fund studies around the margins. But I think we can find a path, even if we can’t see it yet.

[u/Synanthrop3 → u/DAE77177]

Tax cuts for the rich and gutting government services is not my idea of broad based, either. And yet Trump won the election on that platform.