Hurting brown people and "communists" is more important than anything else to that 1/3.

I have seen two different people recently with a trump 2028 yard sign, and wearing a trump 2028 shirt. People are evil morons.

Propaganda works.

REPUBLICAN

VOTERS

LOVE

RAPING

CHILDREN

AND

GENOCIDE

Everyone who ever gaslit you that this wasn't the case was wrong.

Republicans are, at their very best, the parents who know their kids are being raped by an adult, and punish the kid for speaking up about it because it embarrasses them and they rather the child rape happen in the dark.

It's a cult. Most will never stop believing.

Turns out the people who are quickest to say something is unamerican are also the same people who will ignore American values like the Pledge of Allegiance and the US Constitution just to "win."

He hates women, black people and minorities in general.

He's loud, crass, obnoxious.

He's tacky.

He's petty.

They’re locked in a decades-long cycle of abusive extraction.

American religion, politics, economics, and ecology are reaching the limits of an unsustainable system that only knows how to extract wealth and power. The Soviet Union collapsed for similar reasons. Above all, that form of government collapsed under the weight of propping up The Party’s false reality and its debts to the truth. Real operating principles flow from hard-learned evidence, experience, and wisdom. Societies simply cannot operate indefinitely from convoluted principals engineered to benefit only the few. This is the flaw in the philosophy behind modern conservatism - it’s fundamentally abusive.

People stick with the devils they know. When long-term planning is negated by the cognitive load of navigating abuse, it can be almost impossible to adapt to new sustainable modes of thinking and living. When the house of cards collapses, those unable to adapt cannot be saved.

Because 1/3 of Americans what to rape children.

They would have to know it to forget it. Our news sources had poor and little coverage of it all long term. Their news sources praised and cheerleaded it. They don't live in reality.

And 30℅ were on the fence about putting an impeached rapist with a history of self enrichment and grifting into the highest office in the land. Apparently they were ok with it.

30% of the country are stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes where their main source of information is Fox News, talk radio, and online echo chambers full of people who do the same. Another 30% are also stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes but they’re not stuck in the same dis-information loop.

It's the undrainable deep-state swamp.

Oh it finally moved from 40% to 35%? Amazing. Probably exclusively due to gas prices.

If you look back at Nixon's numbers, even as he resigned in total disgrace, it will tell you a lot. The teaching of that history might lead one to believe it would be at or near zero approval, but that's not the case.

I doubt that Americans are all that unique in this by the way. I bet every country has their base of anti-intellectuals who want to see others being hurt (esp. women, POC, gays) and to give the finger to people that know more than they do, have more education than they do, etc. - AKA, the group of people these dumbasses call "elites".

Facism 101: the enemy is both strong enough to be feared and weak enough to ignore at the same time.

A third of the country has been denied adequate education and services because the inequitable distribution of resources towards affluent urban versus poor rural areas.

Democrats have failed to significantly improve the material conditions in some of the poorest areas of the country, so a lot of rural voters feel betrayed and would rather go with the guy who is a outright greedy jerk, than the politician who talks out of the side of their mouth, while still obeying their corporate masters.

I actually kind of like it. Nobody ever shut up about how old biden was even though his admin did all the work. Trump is a much worse -- sorry, I mean "hands on" leader, so his age is even more relevant. When he acts like the petulant baby he is journalists should absolutely remind everyone that he's a geriatric.

Yeah. Every other headline is about how Trump MELTED, or CRASHED OUT, or left SHITTING IN HIS DIAPERS.

Wake me up when Trump is in jail or sleeping forever.

I can guarantee you that he won't, because as a narcissist, his brain is utterly incapable of even forming such a thought.

80+ million of them. It reminds me of the George Carlin quote: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”