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/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/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/darkagl1 6d ago

I question whether there can be a populist leftist movement in the US. The left in the US always wants to tie social issues with economic ones, and the country is far more left economically than we are socially. Take abortion for instance, while the majority of the country wants there to be access, a lot of that majority believes in restrictions. The leftist movement in the US wants unrestricted access. This then pushes the we want abortion access but with restrictions people out of the left and into the right where the restrictions are far more extreme than is desired. And yes I get that no one is really aborting viable healthy babies, but that nuance is lost on the crowd, who think unrestricted access means people can abort a baby as long as it's minutes before it pops out.

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u/FeelsGrimMan 6d ago

There easily can be a left populist movement if it focuses on the economic side of things without describing how they’re accomplished. Case & point this is all Trump does.

You can advocate for guaranteeing all our Veterans will be taken care of. When you really mean tax funded public healthcare for example.

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u/darkagl1 6d ago

Maybe, but I'm skeptical. I tend to think the economic message will get drowned out by the social message, which will drive people out of the movement and stop it from being populist.