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I find it almost unbelievable that 30+% still support him !?
That’s bedrock cult. The Jesusiest lifetime my daddy was republicans.
Saying they disapprove will never happen. Privately, maybe on the john, say, they may momentarily think it before furtively begging Jebus for forgibness.
I came up with a 20-30% rule. Roughly each quarter of population is always divided into different political camps. It's not what I experimented and surveyed on but it's what I have always observed in terms of voting patterns since history, especially in Europe. The Nazis won only about a quarter of voting population but they had to form a coalition to form a government. Similarly, the various Spanish left wing parties also had to form a coalition with each other before the Spanish Civil War, until the losing right wingers staged a coup to take power sparking the civil war.
If we look at the voting pattern as well in the previous American presidential elections, only 60% of eligible voting population went to the polling booth. More than half of those who voted elected Trump while the other remaining elected Kamala. So, of those who voted, about 30-35% elected for either candidates. Those who did not vote comprise 40% and they did not do so for various reasons. It's safe to assume that of those 40%, half are either liberal/left or right/conservative who did not feel energised by either Kamala or Trump and would rather elect their own preferred candidate (Sanders, Jill Stein, Haley etc).
Those are just my guesstimate but it roughly correlates with voting patterns in various countries if ranked choice voting and proportional representation happens. Even though some countries with no ranked choise and proportional representation, about one quarter of people are of certain inclinations. So, it is unsurprising that 30% of Americans are fascists supporting Trump. Those adjacent or apologists of Trump may not be outright fascists, but are enablers or useful idiots.
And 30℅ were on the fence about putting an impeached rapist with a history of self enrichment and grifting into the highest office in the land. Apparently they were ok with it.
30% of the country are stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes where their main source of information is Fox News, talk radio, and online echo chambers full of people who do the same. Another 30% are also stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes but they’re not stuck in the same dis-information loop.
30% of any larger group are raving lunatics. This is a universal rule.
Probably closer to 20%, which coincides with the support Hitler had at the last elections his country held before the war.