How can 45% of the people approve of this bad joke of A president?

[Kyblue1]

I certainly hope the polls are not accurate.

[cos dem]

1. This number indicates how sick our country is.

Trump is merely the lethal pneumonia exposing the viral infection within a significant fraction of our citizens. No one's really sure what the treatment is, but we can't stop trying.

[Cosmocat]

2. Epic levels of gaslighting

decades of right wing skull screwing opened the door for the master manipulator to take it all next level.

We are seeing countless communities across this country have citizens running around armed to the teeth because Anitifa is coming to ravage their towns - this after the same people were in fear of carvans of savage brown skinned people were going to strorm our southern border, and pretty much half the country on pins and needles over us being on the verge of a communist take over.

That people eagerly buy into this shit is relays that the stupid in this country is breaking us.

[Polly Hennessey]

3. Sadly, that seems about right.

There has always been a certain segment of Americans willing to follow if it fits their misguided philosophy. It is nearly impossible to reason with them. Some are simply willfully ignorant. The most accurate statement I have seen in recent years: “You can’t cure stupid”.

[SharonClark]

4. How? Faux News and talk radio.

[Ferrets are Cool]

5. 45% would vote for a fresh pile of elephant shit IF

it had a R behind its name. They are just that brainwashed/indoctrinated/stupid.

[snort]

16. Future News:

The President today announced that 'The scourge of dung beetles must be eliminated from our society.'

[Ferrets are Cool]

18. 🤣🤣🤣

[dawg day]

6. This is about the same approval rating he usually gets

Which means this entire absolute disaster of 2020 has had no effect on them. They can look at this mess and say, "Trump's done a great job!"

[SoonerPride]

7. Make no mistake. Trump might win.

Or at least come close enough to call a Biden win into question.

And then it goes to SCOTUS.


We are on a knife’s edge from a totalitarian dictatorship


Very close indeed

[gulliver]

8. Putin is a rat face.

[niyad]

9. In addition to all the comments below, ask yourself "which polls?" We know which way some

Of them skew.

[RockRaven]

10. Politics is religion for some people.

It's not about evidence or new information or growing and changing, it's all just emotion, self-identity, and faith.

[jcgoldie]

11. He's not black.

[Shermann]

12. 45% of the voters are clinging to their single-issue politics

When the one side promises to address your one issue to your full satisfaction, whatever it may be, you stick to them like glue.

Other issues which have come to light in recent events are irrelevant.

[marlakay]

21. That makes me think of biographies I have read

About Johnson and how he blackmailed and threatened senators into voting for the things we hold dearest now.

I have mixed feelings about it all.

But it does help me understand why republicans are still with Trump, no matter how awful he is, a lot of them vote about abortion or taxes.

[Shermann]

26. Not all of the 45% are single-issue voters of course

But many Republicans are. Perhaps most? Some of the rest seem to weigh one or two issues disproportionally with the others.

I'm sure there are polls which support this, but my assertions are just based on observations.

[Skidmore]

13. The voting public

bought the evenly divided, polarized claptrap that the Republicans cheated their way to in 2000. One reason to never put any descendant of those who engineered that crime into a position of authority again. Republicans ran with it and the left gave up until President Obama. We gained until the attempt to unravel us happened in 2016. Have we not yet learned that we stand together or give it away?

[oasis]

14. Hillary misjudged the number of "deplorables" who infect our nation. It will

take years before the larger part of them crawl back under the rocks they came from.

[Progressive Jones]

15. The polls are always results of a small relatively small group.

[jrthin]

17. We underestimate the emotianal/moral depravity

of 45% of Americans. Forty-five percent of Americans are deplorable.

[LAS14]

19. That's what I want to know. A constant, depressing, enormous puzzle. nt

[kimbutgar]

20. These people are hopelessly brainwashed by years of right wing tv and radio

I know some of them and they are incapable of changing their minds.

Only if they are affected directly can some of them change their minds but for the most part that 45% are what I call goners. Gone out of their sane minds.

[SamKnause]

22. It is a cult.

Trump is the cult leader.

They believe everything he says.

I know.

I have family members who are part of his cult.

They don't believe in facts.

They are not interested in the truth.

It is a cult.

[LakeArenal]

23. Ironically, when Dump loses,

Only 5% will admit voting for him.

[Demovictory9]

24. they think the GOP stacking the courts will stop the advance of POC, turn things back to 1950

[redstatebluegirl]

29. They are most worried about gay marriage and abortion.

They begin to salivate at the promise of rolling back Roe and making being gay illegal.

[Demovictory9]

31. having to bake a cake with single sex figures on top makes them unhappy also

[J_William_Ryan]

25. For some it's blind partisanism.

Support any Republican president no matter how reprehensible, wrong, and unfit to hold office.

And then there are those who actually like Trump – they think he’s ‘witty,’ a ‘straight talker,’ ‘funny,’ ‘amusing,’ 'entertaining,’ he ‘tells it like it is,’ he’s ‘strong,’ and will stand up to the ‘liberal elite.’

Last, there are the bigots, racists, nativists, and others on the frightened, authoritarian reactionary right who perceive Trump as the ‘champion’ of white America and white culture.

As already correctly noted: this election is going to be very close.

[redstatebluegirl]

30. He also hates "intellectual elites" who they think make fun of them.

I have a cousin who comes here to "see how much Trump has gotten under the libs skin". Yep, he is a nut, but he isn't alone.

[CentralMass]

27. It is incomprehensible .

[bdamomma]

28. they are

f'ing cult45 members who feel nothing but hatred towards people who they think are infringing on them, feeling threatened you fucking snowflakes?? tRump won on racism and he's using it again, but this time it will blow up in his face, along with his cult45 followers.