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> "why do you think it's turning people against them?"

March 31, 2025: "Democrats’ approval remains at low point: Poll" - https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/5224072-de...

April 4, 2025: "President Donald Trump's approval rating has risen by 5 percentage points among Democrats, according to new polling" - https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-approval-rating-update...

So how is all the raucous handwringing helping?



April 4 was, notably, before the immigration issue conflict hit a flashpoint:

NYT (Apr 23, 2025): "Trump’s Approval Rating Has Been Falling Steadily, Polling Average Shows" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/us/politics/trump-approva...

> Newsweek (Apr 25, 2025): "President Donald Trump's approval rating on immigration is steadily declining, according to numerous polls." https://www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-rating-immigration-f...

Pew Research (April 23, 2025): "Trump’s Job Rating Drops, Key Policies Draw Majority Disapproval as He Nears 100 Days" https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/04/23/trumps-job-r...


I’m confused, is this happening little by little, or gigantic bursts.

Trump just started his term, but it doesn’t seem to be the incremental approach allegedly used by the Nazis.

He is, to quote his former advisor, “flooding the zone with sh*t.” A gigantic burst of terribleness, doing a thousand things at once, leaving everyone disoriented.

That’s quite different from the “every day a little worse approach.”

I suspect the next four years will be gigantic bursts of terribleness, followed by long periods of relief it wasn’t “as bad as it seeemed at first.”




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