Okay, so according to the mainstream media, the only numbers which seem to be dropping even more quickly than the stock market is the approval ratings for President Trump and the Republican party.
According to a recent poll which I read about in Newsweek (see link below), 46% of Americans still approve of Trump's job in office, while 51% (clearly a majority) disapprove.
But does it really matter? After all, this comes five months and change after the election, and a little over two months since Trump assumed office. I had predicted that Trump would win the 2024 election, but I had also predicted that Trump's approval ratings would tank shortly after he got back into office.
In other words, this buyer's remorse of Trump was predictable. After all, his policies are horrible, and unfriendly to the well-being of the majority of Americans. Of course his numbers were set to dip, although I would hardly say that they are tanking as badly as some suggest. After all, 46% is, frankly, much, much higher than they should be. And it's this kind of exaggerating of the numbers, and how supposedly monstrously unpopular Trump is that, to me, clearly led to his election wins in 2016 and again in 2024.
Also, he just took power about two-and-a-half months ago. There are still three years and nearly nine months left of his second term. What do poll numbers matter now? Even the midterm elections are quite distant, and a lot can happen between now and then. If nothing else, the American voting population has shown an incredible - and frankly, inexcusable - pattern of forgiving politicians for their horrific transgressions. And Trump seems like he has benefitted from this unfortunate, even tragic, American political trend far more than anyone else I am aware of.
So I am sick and tired of these ridiculous polls which supposedly predict doom for the Trump presidency. They were wrong in proclaiming his political hopes dead before the 2016 election. And they were wrong in proclaiming them dead after the 2020 election and especially after January 6th. And many of them failed to learn their lessons, and proclaimed his campaign unlikely to succeed in 2024, although it was clear as day that he likely would be the GOP nominee, and that meant that at the very least, he would have a very real shot at winning another term in office.
Spare me the dire prognostications about him in particular, or even the GOP. They too should have been seriously punished for the nonsense during Trump's first term, and especially their farcical defense of his actions on January 6th. Yet, they won the midterms and then won again in 2024. Until that trend changes for good, these numbers mean absolutely nothing to me. It feels to me that the people who put a lot of stock in the declining level of support for Trump or the GOP are desperately clinging to the fading hopes of proving that the American political system is not broken, that it still works, even while Trump & his cronies are making a mockery of that. We need to wake up to reality as a nation, or we might not have much of a nation left.
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