A new poll shows that about 4 in 10 Americans say Trump has been a “terrible” leader in his second term.
The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that about 2 in 10 think he has done an average job in his presidency and 3 in 10 says he’s been a great or good president.
44% say Trump’s focused on the wrong priorities in the AP-NORC poll, 21% said an even mix and 10% don’t know
How is it only 4 in 10?
Oh wait, maybe the other options were Horrible and stinking, which both received 3 votes.
6 out of ten said what? This is fine…?
2 in 10: Average 3 in 10: Great
If you all could just try to not take the rest of the planet with you, that’ll be great.
You really got to wonder what that 2 in 10 thinks about the history of presidents of this country. I mean there’s been some stinkers but Jesus.
Fucking politicians. All the same ain’t they.
Edit: …is what they are thinking.
You really got to wonder what that 2 in 10 thinks about the history of presidents of this country.
It’s honestly weird to see people hyperventilating over Trump when I’ve lived through the Bush post-9/11 War on Terror and the Reagan Era War on Crime.
Both had wildly unconstitutional surveillance and arrests, extra-judicial black sites and torture prisons, partisan purges of agencies, corporate multinationals capturing government agencies, and all sorts of naked corruption.
Trumpism isn’t new, it’s just poorly marketed. The biggest difference between Trump and his predecessors is that the media clapped like seals when prior admins were committing these atrocities.
As of 2022 only 38% of the population keep up with current events
It’s a bullshit poll. 10% selected “I don’t know.”
The AP-NORC poll surveyed 1,260 adults from April 17- April 21, using a probability-based method from AmeriSpeak. The margin of sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3.9 percentage points.
He’s underwater at 54.6% unfavorable on YouGov as of five days ago.
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/trackers/donald-trump-favorability
He’s 59% unfavorable on Pew Research Center as of three days ago.
They’re the lowest in presidential history 70 years. Don’t forget, they’re not exclusively asking informed people.
The 52% AP-NORC result has a margin of error of 3.9%. That puts the 54.6% YouGov poll squarely within it. Pew Research was April 7-14 and doesn’t have a margin on its first page, so I didn’t look further.
Not sure why you don’t think the YouGov poll is also bullshit since it is lower than Pew.
Sooo… Wait…
“4 in 10 Americans say Trump has been a ‘terrible’ leader in his second term.
2 in 10 think he has done an average job
3 in 10 says he’s been a great or good president.”
4+2+3 = 9…
They left out 1 in 10 for “Poor.” I also didn’t find a link to the poll in the article. Here’s the poll:
Great/Good NET 31
- Great 18
- Good 13
Average 16
Poor/Terrible NET 52
- Poor 13
- Terrible 39
DON’T KNOW -
SKIPPED/REFUSED 1
N= 1,260
30% of the population thinks tanking the economy, shredding the constitution, and deporting people to what is essentially a death camp without due process, all totally legal and very cool.
I got downvoted on another post for stating that disappearing is a term used for events when what happened to the victims isn’t public knowledge. We know who was deported illegally (without due process) to El Salvador.
Disappearing is when a person suddenly vanishes and it sometimes takes a Truth and Reconciliation effort a decade later to figure out where they were buried.
Reminds me of this book about interviews with “ordinary” non-political, non-military Nazi party members in Germany. Just regular citizens with jobs and families. “They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45” (1955).
“The author determined that his interviewees had fond memories of the Nazi period and did not see Adolf Hitler as evil, and they perceived themselves as having a high degree of personal freedom during Nazi rule, with the exception of the teacher. Additionally, barring said teacher, the subjects still disliked Jewish people… At the time of the interviews the interviewees were still not in favor of the democratic Bonn government.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free
Excerpt from the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
He’s getting a masterclass in negotiation from Xi and I’m here for it.
