Trump Approval Remains in Low 40s
Source: Gallup.com
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Donald Trump's job approval rating, which has been fluctuating between 40% and 43% since early May, was 41% in the second half of June, and includes 29% who strongly approve. Fifty-four percent of Americans disapprove of the president's performance, including 44% who do so strongly.
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CrispyQ
(36,478 posts)Babies in cages were no mistake by Trump but test-marketing for barbarism
Tue, Jun 26, 2018, 05:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375
Fintan O'Toole
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Fascism doesnt arise suddenly in an existing democracy. It is not easy to get people to give up their ideas of freedom and civility. You have to do trial runs that, if they are done well, serve two purposes. They get people used to something they may initially recoil from; and they allow you to refine and calibrate. This is what is happening now and we would be fools not to see it.
One of the basic tools of fascism is the rigging of elections weve seen that trialled in the election of Trump, in the Brexit referendum and (less successfully) in the French presidential elections. Another is the generation of tribal identities, the division of society into mutually exclusive polarities. Fascism does not need a majority it typically comes to power with about 40 per cent support and then uses control and intimidation to consolidate that power. So it doesnt matter if most people hate you, as long as your 40 per cent is fanatically committed. Thats been tested out too. And fascism of course needs a propaganda machine so effective that it creates for its followers a universe of alternative facts impervious to unwanted realities. Again, the testing for this is very far advanced.
PSPS
(13,600 posts)This is called "incrementalism" which is the tool Hitler used.
There's another thread out there about Senator Merkley was refused entrance into a detention center a year ago. And now the conditions are much worse.
Here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212239247
PSPS
(13,600 posts)ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)Another participant in the discussion, Australian comedian Jim Jefferies, immediately told him (Piers) to "fuck off", adding in part "Hitler didn't kill the Jews on the first day, he worked up to it.
Linda Ed
(493 posts)I would hope it will go down to the low 20's but there are too many immoral republicans that worship this orange maggot! Unbelievable...
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)to have ANY chance in 2020
are americans foolish to fall for it again? They did in 2000, they did in 2016 and we have suffered the world for it
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)I can only surmise that that number is steady because of right wing media, Fox News, the most watched, and RW daytime talk radio that has a monopoly in middle America. It is the ONLY point of view they hear.