Political Memes

there are a LOT of severely uneducated inbred racist bigots in this country. pretty much anywhere in the south, or any isolated rural area anywhere--that's what it is

It's mind boggling to me for a different reason, he has always had his cult locked in where he never dropped below 30something% no matter what he did. The fact that he actually lost some of the die hard "I'd forgive him for raping my daughter" croud is kinda wild.

Based on my interactions, I think the delusional/pedophilic demographic is far outweighed by those who are simply deeply ignorant (no comment on racism).

It's not that they're ignoring the evidence about him, or even support him in spite of it (though that definitely happens too). They live in a bubble where they just never see any negative news about him. Their news sources either ignore those stories entirely, or spin them beyond all recognition. Whenever something negative gets too big, they're told it's fake news, or that the Democrats are doing it even worse.

Even post-Watergate Nixon had 25%. I think no matter what he does it isn't going to drop below that, there's a subset of the population that simply won't adjust their opinion on of him.

Keep in mind a lot of people simply aren't paying attention and a lot of people have made MAGA a core part of their personality; to turn on it now would mean admitting that all their social media posts, financial contributions, merch, and ruined relationships were in vain. It's massively humiliating to admit to yourself and others that you were that overconfidantly wrong to hitch your wagon to a known conman rapist.

29% is insanely low considering how much propaganda they spew and how much media they control.

I try to be "optimistic" because Trump is only going to make things worse, so even lower numbers are possible.

Even Truman was barely lower than this, though his were low because dipshit Americans fellated MacArthur who was a Trump-like figure in many ways. Fake bravado (he abandoned his troops in the Philippines when things got tough), shit talker who spewed bloodthirsty talking points (he wanted to drop 50 nukes on China during the Korean War), but wore cool shades and smoked a pipe, etc

Maga simply represents the shallow, indulgent narcissism at the root of American identity, especially in the shithole South. We've been like this for a long fucking time.

It's an intentional mix of low education, racist history, rural isolation, a faith-based understanding of reality, and 50 years of relentless fascist propaganda. It creates a culturally reinforced tribalism in Republicans and makes them into a sort of cattle-class that can easily be led around by media misinformation. They're too isolated, too dumb, and too blindly loyal to The Party to ever wake up to the reality of their subjugation or the evil of their leaders.

That's why they'll never abandon Trump.

If I told you the population was 29% raving morons, you wouldn’t be surprised, would you?

Or firing the jobs agency statistician because the numbers were so bad...

And our whole governmental apparatus is dedicated to propping up a brain-dead, geriatric asshole's ego so people in power can steal more from us with zero accountability.

Which would be bad, but it gets worse, because propping up brain-dead geriatrics is a bipartisan effort now.

Don't forget, "Stop counting the votes".

Don’t forget about measles. Or rather, do forget about them.

Gallup is an employee-owned corporation. i'm not sure where the funding for their presidential approval polling comes from

Dubya's plot arc is WILD.

Kind of refreshing to see Trump is the only president to never have a positive approval rating.

Not that I've seen. On some issues, he's down a lot, but overall has him in the 37-42 range. Which is about 50 too high

There's a solid core that will never abandon him, and a squishy shell that could, but only consumes right wing propaganda

the question is: who's going to make him leave office?