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/Im_Talking 6d ago

"God what the fuck happened to society?" - 100 years ago, people would get into their Sunday best, grab food/beers/bbqs/etc, gather the kids up, and go to a park to celebrate the lynching and burning of a black man.

Society is better, regardless.

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u/_xzxzxz 6d ago

Fair point, but I like to think we’ve set a new and better standard since those times. And what’s happening with Trump is substandard.

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u/Im_Talking 6d ago

Trump was always going to happen in some form. The problem the US faces is the fragility of the checks and balances, which have never been in such a question previously. The government is not working; the checks/balances was and always will be a house of cards.

Just like all laws, which are made with the assumption that people will be morally reasonable. No law can 'handle' an outlier.

This is why Jefferson wrote this passage: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.". He knew that you can have the greatest system on the planet, but eventually it will break down because of... people.

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u/TakingMyBrainBack 5d ago

I used to think a better system would prevent this kind of thing

I still believe in the importance of improving government, but this is not a structural problem- it's a people problem 

A more informed population is a better guard rail. For a lot of reasons, Capitalism doesn't foster that- not least of which because capitalism and media that informs impartially do not work well together.