Blinded by hate: Republicans too busy to notice plummeting poll numbers for Trump and GOP

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Blinded by hate: Republicans too busy to notice plummeting poll numbers for Trump and GOP
Voters hate Trump, hate GOP abortion politics, hate the racism, but Republicans keep doubling down

By AMANDA MARCOTTE
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED APRIL 12, 2023 5:49AM (EDT)


(Salon) Perhaps it's a sign that they're still traumatized by the 2016 election. Or, more likely, it's just that elite members of the pundit class have subconscious anxieties when they see rich people actually held to account for their crimes. But far too much media chatter after Donald Trump finally faced indictments got caught up in a hand-wringing contest over who was most fearful this would somehow help him electorally. Well, score one for common sense over the received wisdom of the punditocracy: A new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows Trump's already low favorability ratings have plummeted even further, to 25%.

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For context, that's 14 points lower than when Trump called the white nationalists who threw a 2017 race riot "very fine people." It's 9 points lower than when he incited an insurrection on January 6, 2021.

Despite the relentless whining about "witch hunts" from Trump, the polling also shows most Americans are well aware he's a criminal, with 53% saying Trump "intentionally" did something wrong. And let's face it, most of the 20% saying he's innocent probably don't believe that, so much as they're just loyal Republicans. But despite the fact that Trump is shaping up to be the loser that a small but outspoken faction of anti-Trump Republicans say he is, so far, it still seems he's got a lock on the Republican presidential nomination during next spring's primary. Indeed, he seems to be growing in popularity with the GOP base, even as his already low approval numbers with the general public plummet further.

For many GOP voters, it really is that they would rather lose the 2024 presidential race than admit liberals were right about Trump. But, I suspect, for many others, it's just that they are in deep denial. Trump and his right-wing media acolytes keep claiming indictments will only make Trump stronger. That is classic wishful thinking, and unsurprising coming from Trump, a man who has coasted his whole life by pretending to be everything he is not, such as a smart businessman or savvy power player. But it's wishful thinking that's infecting the MAGA base. After all, many of them live in a bubble where they don't consume non-MAGA media or interact with normal non-MAGA Americans much, if at all. So it can be easy to convince themselves that the orange-hued fascist is as popular nationwide as he is in their Facebook mentions.

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In retrospect, Republicans really should have seen the virality of this story coming. After all, it confirmed the public's worst suspicions about Republicans: They are hella racist, hate democracy, and don't care how many people die by gun violence, so long as they keep getting their NRA funding. All the accusations against Republicans that often get dismissed as liberal hyperbole were right there on display in people's faces. It was especially hard for Republicans to run away from the fact that, out of the three representatives whose expulsion came up for a vote, only the white person was spared. ............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2023/04/12/blinded-by-hate-too-busy-to-notice-plummeting-poll-numbers-for-and/

[Lovie777]

1. They don't care................

GQP have been planning for fascism for decades. Voter suppression, gerrymandering, lying, stealing, cheating with judicial, federal, and top supreme court in their pockets.

[Cosmocat]

3. Spot on ... this is more clueless media

Monkey's grinding organs while the Titanic is listing.

The column someone posted about them enacting isometrical warfare on democracy is spot on.

These they are going down because of polling #s is just farting in the wind.

[tanyev]

2. They don't care about listening to voters, they're trying to subjugate them.

[larwdem]

4. well

Let's don't tell them.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake

Napolea Bonaparte.

The GOP is clueess right now, they are going further and further Right when the country doesn't want it. They're obvlivious to the fact that woke fell flat, that the public hates Trump, and that moderates want some normalcy. 2024 is going to be a blowout and the GOP has no idea yet.