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The big problem Democrats have is that they are currently deeply unpopular, while Trump is relatively popular. Trump's approval rating is at 53%, while the Democrats sit at 31%. 70% of Americans are also saying that Trump has kept his campaign promises. Trump has also managed to get himself on the popular/majority side of quite a few 60/40, 70/30 and even 80/20 issues, which plays a huge part here, even people that don't like Trump, like quite a few of his policies by large margins. Trump is ahead of the Democrats on basically everything except abortion. So the big problem for Democrats is that if they double down, they are doubling down on being deeply unpopular, doubling down on a losing position, while their opponent is popular and in a winning position. Which is why they're not doing much and trying to recalculate for now. The Democrats are in a crisis of entirely their own making and failures.
This is also why the #Resistance has been so pathetic this time round compared to 2016, there is effectively no one willing to actually resist by comparison, because Trump and his policies are significantly more popular now than they were in 2017.
Why do you say this? Things seem about the same to me.
The polling data on his approval ratings and his policies seems markedly different this time. IPSOS has deportation of illegal immigrants at 60 - 66% approval, and Trump's anti transgender policies at 70-80% approval. YouGov has Trump's approval rating at 53%, a net 6% positive, pretty much an all time high for Trump, and historically quite high for re-elected presidents. Before the election, IPSOS had Trump beating Harris on almost every issue except abortion. If you time travelled and showed these numbers to someone living in 2017, hell even 2020, they'd be absolutely shocked.
The Gallup polls always had trump bouncing up and down between like 35% and 50% over the years, but early in his first term is almost identical to this one. I don't really trust polling in general anyway, but I guess there's not much else to go off at this point. He did get booed pretty hard at the Superbowl
I don't understand why people are so butthurt at Dems? Two things can be true at a time
The Dems can be ineffectual selfish spineless milquetoast wussies, AND the American people can be too stupid and violent to vote for them even if they were any good.
I genuinely just don't understand this charade where 99% of leftists pretend everything is the democrats' fault