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1. Which Means

63% of us emphatically do NOT.

[Kingofalldems]

7. OP looks a homage to Trump from here.

Same sort of thing multiple times a week.

Your response is what the OP should look like.

[Prairie Gates]

15. It thinks it's very clever

[Kingofalldems]

22. It is that for sure.

[fujiyamasan]

23. How is this a "homage"?

The OP is merely posting the results of a poll, which we should all frankly find incredibly disturbing.

Americans already proved themselves voting for him in the last election — and it was an actual plurality (almost a muaoity but just under).

It doesn’t really matter what his approval rating is or what people “want”. He made it very clear he doesn’t give a fuck.

[Polybius]

10. Don't forget the people with no opinion

There's always a good 5-8% who are like that.

[bluestarone]

2. 37% IDIOTS

Unbelievable to me!

[misanthrope]

14. If you asked those people for details

They would likely describe certain sections of town they would want the troops deployed and it is most likely an sector where that respondent doesn't live.

[markodochartaigh]

6. It's nothing new. And they don't see themselves as evil.

The pioneers wiping out whole villages of Native Americans did not see themselves as evil. The plantation owners did not see themselves as evil, and their Northern business partners were able to get over any discomfort they felt when they bought the cotton. General Jacob "Howling Wilderness" Smith received a harsher punishment for a gambling debt than for ordering his men to kill everyone over the age of 10 on the island of Samar. Look at the sympathetic treatment that William Calley received from the US public after the My Lai massacre. There are too many other examples to list.

About one third of the population are authoritarians today. It may have been fewer in the past, or it may have been more. When you hear the maga people say "Trump says out loud what we feel" or "Now we can say the quiet part out loud", they are saying that they felt that way all along, not that Trump has sparked a fire of cruelty in their soul which was not previously present.

It is difficult to see any silver lining in the Trumpnado cloud ravaging the nation, but at least now people who previously apparently had no understanding of the deep strain of authoritarianism in the US are waking up.

[NEOH]

8. Always that Crazy 33%

[CincyDem]

11. Tells me 63% of population lives in cities. n/t

[CincyDem]

29. Damn. If my math is right, that says 80% of the pop lives on at most 2% of the land

No wonder we’re screwed allocating senate seats based on landmass. Those founding land owners were no dummies.

[misanthrope]

13. Sample size was less than 2,000 people

Also, 57% of respondents DO NOT want military deployed on the streets of American towns.

[usedtobedemgurl]

16. Not sure if it is crazy, as much as they are uneducated.

Uneducated about the constitution, about our history (like Kent State) and about their bible.

[Ferrets are Cool]

31. Willfully uneducated.

It is a rare occurance in 2025 that one cannot find out information.

[usedtobedemgurl]

36. They find out information.....

It is just the wrong I formation. The truth is not the only information out there.

[Oeditpus Rex]

18. That's about the number

who've believed every lie he's told, so this cones as no surprise at all.

Dismay, yes. Surprise, no.

[Efilroft Sul]

19. Would've been great had the poll asked respondents if they were rural, urban, or suburban.

Then we would have a better grasp of who thinks this occupation is a neat idea.

[LeftInTX]

21. Isn't that lower than his approval ratings?

[pimpbot]

25. I think the latest polls put him around 37%

So, it makes sense. Roughly one third of the population is in the cult.

[OnionPatch]

24. It's always 35-37%

For decades I’ve watched this and come to the conclusion that that’s how many thoroughly brainwashed, die-hard, right-wing sickos we have in this country. That 35% wouldn’t change if you held a shotgun to their head.

[Freddie]

26. Yup. It's the same idiots

[underpants]

27. 37% are his Flying Monkeys. They'll do anything the are told.

Believe whatever the latest brain dribble that comes out of his mouth even when it counteracts with what he’s said before.

[marble falls]

28. So long as it isn't one of their cities. 63 % don't want it at all. You know, the vast majority.

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[Ferrets are Cool]

30. 37% would approve of lying on their backs and letting him shit in their mouths.

So, I am not surprised by this.

[DBoon]

32. Hitler got about the same percent of the vote in 1932

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1932_German_presidential_election

Also note the following from the same Wikipedia article:

Although the Weimar Constitution had provided for a semi-presidential republic, structural weaknesses and political polarization had resulted in a paralyzed Reichstag. Combined with the Great Depression, this resulted in a government that had governed exclusively via presidential decrees since March 1930, giving the President much power.

[VanceFan]

33. The usual group of idiots

Trump could rape a baby on live TV and 35 percent of "Americans" would still support him.

[Ping Tung]

35. Wannabee vigilantes or mercenaries

The type that wear camouflage undies and have gun racks in their hummers.