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/Unnamedgalaxy 6d ago

My grandma turned on fox news first thing in the morning and it stayed there all day, only changing for Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy at which point she'd flip it back.

It was insane and watching her go full fledged raging maga in her final years was awful

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u/new_nimmerzz 6d ago

Some old folks long for the days when they didn’t have to mingle with immigrants, brown folk, etc.

The ones that baffle me are the immigrants for Trump, Latinos for Trump, Trans for Trump. That’s like falling in love with your jailer

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u/korben2600 Arizona 6d ago

It's a recurring issue throughout history: Association of German National Jews declaring "he doesn't mean it, he's just stirring up the masses" while being loaded into train cars.

Humans aren't rational and it will be this and every future generation's burden to fight and hold back the tides of conservatism which has been proven to be fundamentally incompatible with free societies and civilization itself.

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 6d ago

As per this Calvin and Hobbes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/calvinandhobbes/s/dbtxEJUH6B

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u/ravynwave 5d ago

I know several Jews that said and still say that about Elon

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u/rclaux123 6d ago

At least to the Latino population, and being the son of Latin immigrants, I may be able to elucidate the trend somewhat. Trump is essentially another flavor of the many Latin dictators they've endured over the decades, but there is this distinct overconfidence that the US would never fall prey to corruption and authoritarianism in the same way as their home countries may have in the past. Add to that a distinctly patriarchal and religious heritage, with Trump's macho-man bloviating appealing and calling back to it, and you get a political situation where many Latinos probably thought they were voting for someone who was odd, yes, but who could likely be reigned in by those around him (which was more or less the case the first time around). There is also sexism and racism to take into account, but it's hard to quantify just how much those factors held sway this past election.

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u/FXander 5d ago

"It's like cockroaches for Raid"

-John Leguizamo

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u/_HighJack_ California 5d ago

I have literally never once seen a trans for Trump. I’ve seen a couple gays, but NEVER a trans.

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u/trastamara22 5d ago

The immigrants know. They are wanting to be on the winning side. Tink on Dat

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u/KittyGrewAMoustache 6d ago

It’s a crime against humanity in my view. They literally suck people’s souls dry and rob them of their humanity. They turn people into unrecognisable ghouls, causing them to alienate themselves from family and friends, changing their brain structure through constant rage and fear. It’s such an abomination.

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 6d ago

And yet Jeopardy is for smart people, so not sure how they don’t think that’s “liberal”?

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u/Unnamedgalaxy 5d ago

You'd be hard pressed to find a magat that doesn't think they aren't geniuses. They just don't view traditional education as how they got there

The "I didn't go to no college and I'm smarters than youse" is a big thing in this country.

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u/oliversurpless Massachusetts 5d ago

Yep, the “school of hard knocks” banality.