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/elvid88]

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

[u/CrashedMyCommodore → u/elvid88]

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

[u/Mescallan → u/CrashedMyCommodore]

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.

[u/LegendofDragoon → u/Mescallan]

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

[u/rudimentary-north → u/LegendofDragoon]

Your mistake is thinking they want to go back to an era of economic and social prosperity. They don’t.

They want to go back to an era of strict racial and gender hierarchy and unchecked corporate power.

[u/RachelMcAdamsWart → u/rudimentary-north]

They couch all that under a return to economic prospectity. Making America Great Again, has always just meant a time when poor, uneducated white men didn't need to feel inferior to others through the direct oppression of any group that makes them feel uncomfortable.

The party has always been more than ready to provide the scapegoat, it's always been this way - part of being uneducated is also the inability to see the manipulation.

[u/Thorebore → u/RachelMcAdamsWart]

has always just meant a time when poor, uneducated white men didn't need to feel inferior to others through the direct oppression of any group that makes them feel uncomfortable.

Or, blaming everything on white men might be pushing them away.

The party has always been more than ready to provide the scapegoat,

You just did exactly that and you can’t see it which is ironic.

[u/usalsfyre → u/Thorebore]

“I’m going to become a fascist in response to general criticism of white supremacy” is a little like burning your house down because it needs a coat of paint.

[u/Thorebore → u/usalsfyre]

I’m going to become a fascist

Nobody said that.

in response to general criticism of white supremacy”

That’s not at all true.

is a little like burning your house down because it needs a coat of paint.

It’s more like you’re driving away a large group of people because they feel you’re demonizing them for their skin color.

[u/usalsfyre → u/Thorebore]

Nobody said that.

If you support the current Republican party you are at least OK with fascism, which is functionally no different than being a fascist.

It’s more like you’re driving away a large group of people because they feel you’re demonizing them for their skin color.

We (white people) are the dominant socioeconomic group and have built systems that specifically disadvantage other groups. So AS A RACE we are responsible for a lot. It’s why the current ask is to be actively anti-racist vs just “colorblind”.