President Donald Trump’s approval ratings have dropped to their lowest level since the start of his second term.
According to the NBC News Decision Desk Poll released on Sunday, only 37 percent of adults approve of Trump’s work as president. Meanwhile, 63 percent disapprove, including 50 percent who disapprove strongly. Some of that strong disapproval comes from Trump’s handling of skyrocketing costs for most households: Among the over 32,000 American adults that NBC News surveyed over two weeks in March and April, 52 percent said they “strongly disapprove” and 16 percent “somewhat disapprove” of Trump’s handling of inflation and the cost of living.
That’s a large disapproval jump compared to a few months ago. When NBC News asked the same inflation question to Americans last August, 45 percent noted they “strongly disapprove”—seven percentage points lower than this month’s results.
The NBC results also suggest that Trump is beginning to lose his voter base. The number of Republicans who approve of Trump’s performance on inflation sank by 10 percentage points (from 83 to 73 percent) since last summer. The poll also found that overall support for the president dropped by four percentage points (from 87 to 83 percent) among his Republican support in just two months.
And that’s why America is fucked. You don’t need to convince 50% of Americans to be reasonable, you need to convince 80% of decent Americans to be reasonable. There’s literally only 20% margin of error in the people not in a cult to keep the place running.
I think a lot of people are incurious as well. My own sister thinks Israel “had every right to go to war” and thinks I am some sort of hippie for only ever caring about the harm done to Palestinians. She knows every historical detail about LGBTQ issues, but had never heard of the Nakba, doubts my description of it, and isnt interested in hearing anything about it.
She will stand for her rights, and any female candidate, but I guess everyone else can go fuck themselves. Its difficult.
I think the only way to get out of this mess is to let the whole thing fall apart. I can’t even convince my own sisters to get off of fucking Twitter and Facebook, and they know how bad it is! There’s no way any critical mass of people are going to give enough of a shit to fight unless we’re all homeless. It really feels that way.