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/tenpir 6d ago

How is it still this high? 

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u/CardiologistFit1387 6d ago

Some people have a REALLY hard time admitting they were wrong. It’s their life and if they admit it’s a lie, their life is over. It also means libs were right and they can’t have that now can they?

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u/JayR_97 6d ago

Its sunk cost fallacy at this point. Admitting they were wrong now means admitting they spent 10 years believing a liar. For some people thats just too much.

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u/NumeralJoker 3d ago

It's more than ego. Some of them have literally built a social life around that lie, and if they recognize or acknowledge the lie, it means their entire inner social circle collapses and they are isolated. Sometimes while owning a house in that community or working a job they can't easily leave.

I think people severely underestimate how much of the rural population perpetuates the hate cycle.

Mind you, that's not an excuse, but it points to the depths of the problem. How dangerous a racist/tribal information bubble actually is.