Post inauguration Trump:

[What'sinaname]

The more the democRATS push, the more popular Trump gets. The more popular Trump gets, the more the democRATS push. Trump’s election campaign is being funded by his opponent.

[David]

Is there actually any evidence of that? Or does he just have a very loyal base who will stick with him regardless?

[pietillidie]

^I follow American politics closely due to its global implications, but What'sinaname you've apparently gone so far as to even appropriate MAGA insider and meme talk. You clearly have far more to offer in your own right, on your own two feet, than that. You're selling yourself short, surely.

[think positive]

Watched ‘don’t look up’ the other day (sick and bored hubby, random choice) it’s trumpism in a nutshell! Scary shit

[doriswilgus]

Is there actually any evidence of that? Or does he just have a very loyal base who will stick with him regardless?

No of course there isn’t any evidence to prove that.That particular poster is just doing his deluded pro Trump thing as usual.Completely divorced from reality like any other Trumpista.

[David]

[doriswilgus]

David,here’s an aggregate of polls on Trump’s favourability ratings with the American people.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/po ... ald-trump/

It certainly doesn’t suggest that the indictments are making Trump more popular with the general electorate.They’re only making his rusted on base of crazies more angry than ever.

[Jezza]

[Jezza]

David,here’s an aggregate of polls on Trump’s favourability ratings with the American people.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/po ... ald-trump/

It certainly doesn’t suggest that the indictments are making Trump more popular with the general electorate.They’re only making his rusted on base of crazies more angry than ever.

It's not too dissimilar to Biden's favourability numbers. I don't think personal approval ratings is a good metric in predicting overall electoral outcomes.

I'm more curious to see what polls are saying in particular battleground states leading up to the 2024 election. A lot is also dependant on both parties/candidates mobilising their base to turnout.

[think positive]

David,here’s an aggregate of polls on Trump’s favourability ratings with the American people.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/po ... ald-trump/

It certainly doesn’t suggest that the indictments are making Trump more popular with the general electorate.They’re only making his rusted on base of crazies more angry than ever.

Crazy that a whopping 39% are still in the favourable camp! They must be nuts, gullible or plain stupid

[doriswilgus]

David,here’s an aggregate of polls on Trump’s favourability ratings with the American people.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/po ... ald-trump/

It certainly doesn’t suggest that the indictments are making Trump more popular with the general electorate.They’re only making his rusted on base of crazies more angry than ever.

Crazy that a whopping 39% are still in the favourable camp! They must be nuts, gullible or plain stupid

Yep,you’ve nailed it,Jo,

[David]

Move along, nothing to see here.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... glenn-beck

Donald Trump says he will lock up his political enemies if he is president again.

In an interview on Tuesday, the rightwing broadcaster Glenn Beck raised Trump’s famous campaign-trail vow to “lock up” Hillary Clinton, his opponent in 2016, a promise Trump did not fulfill in office.

Beck said: “Do you regret not locking [Clinton] up? And if you’re president again, will you lock people up?”

Trump said: “The answer is you have no choice, because they’re doing it to us.”

[Kingsofclutch]

Bill Burr's wife giving Trump the finger at the MMA was hilarious, Xwitter lit up with the usual "that wouldn't happen if he had a white wife" but still worth it and pretty much sums up the right, guns and god but money comes before both and war is very good business.

[Magpietothemax]

In a campaign speech in New Hampshire last Saturday night, Trump declared his intention to jail or to kill his political opponents if he is returned to the White House. He denounced: "radical left thugs who live like vermin within our country to cheat or steal elections. They will do anything, legal or illegal to destroy America..the real threat is from the radical left, and it’s growing every day, every single day, the threat from outside forces is far less sinister, dangerous and grave than the threat from within. Our threat is from within."
This speech was a carbon copy of Hitler's rants in which he (Hitler) described the Jewish population within Germany as vermin who "poisoned the blood of the nation".
Howevr, the very fact that Trump can continue to campaign freely in the US, indicates the utter political crisis and degeneration of the US two party system. The Democrats know full well that Trump attempted to overthrow the election and the US Constitution, take power and imprison his political opponents on 6 Jan 2021 in a fascist coup. Yet they have not taken any measures whatsoever to hold him to account for his real political crimes. As a result, he is now the most favoured Republican candidate in the 2024 election. What does this show?
It shows that the Democrats have no fundamental oppositon to the imposition of an authoritarian regime either - if they did, then the arrest and trial of Trump on charges of treason would have been their priority from the start.
These two dparties are two sides of the same horrible coin: the descent of US capitalism into dictatorship at home and war abroad.
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/1 ... l-n14.html

[Magpietothemax]

David,here’s an aggregate of polls on Trump’s favourability ratings with the American people.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/po ... ald-trump/

It certainly doesn’t suggest that the indictments are making Trump more popular with the general electorate.They’re only making his rusted on base of crazies more angry than ever.

Crazy that a whopping 39% are still in the favourable camp! They must be nuts, gullible or plain stupid

Yep,you’ve nailed it,Jo,

When Biden is openly backing genocide in Gaza, openly fuelling the war in Ukraine, declaring that UAW striking workers must return to work on contracts that maintain the two tier wage system, impose massive real wage cuts and no let up in exploitative conditions, why would the vast mass of the population see him as an "alternative" ? They would rather stay at home rather than make any effort to vote.
The two party system in the US is collapsing because both parties, Democrates and Republicans have fundamentally the same political program: war abroad, paid for by austerity measures against the workers. Such a program cannot be carried out democratically.