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Is "despised" jumping to conclusions here a little? There's a selection of stats showing, at face value, a number of his actions are unpopular. But (a) there's

Is "despised" jumping to conclusions here a little? There's a selection of stats showing, at face value, a number of his actions are unpopular. But (a) there's always spread on survey values, so this could be cherry picked / optimistic reading, (b) people's sympathies en masse are not super logical, but rather emotional. He was never elected for rational reasons. People just like him and like his "vibe", and I can imagine they will continue to like him even while he saws at the branch they are sitting on. Obviously only up to a point, and I'm confident that point will come, but it's not obvious to me (IANAAmerican) that it's there yet.

josefritzishere 1y ago
He is literally the least popular president in the history of polling. His popularity highs are abysmal. https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/presidential-approval/highslows https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/presidential-approval/highsl...
- jfengel 1y ago
  It took a second to see what you were referring to. He has never had an approval rating above 50%. Even Joe Biden, whom Republicans utterly despised and Democrats never loved, got over 60%. Though that's a bit misleading. It was all downhill from there. People thought he handled COVID pretty well at the beginning, but once the lockdowns started to ease, he fell down into basically the same range Trump is now. He left with a 38% approval rating, same as Trump today. Never getting above 50% certainly does seem to place Trump in a special category of dislike. But he does at least have some support -- the lowest approval rating ever was for Bush 43 at 19% (leading to speculative articles about what that 19% could possibly find to like).