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President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

'Lowest Ever Recorded': CNN Drops 'Staggering' Poll Showing 'Brutal Reality' of Democrat Disapproval Ratings

When taken with the Trump ratings, there really should be no question that current Democratic leadership should step down, step aside - like they would do in a parliamentary system. It is clear that a big chunk of Harris voters and traditional Dem voters have zero confidence in the current leadership.
After Schumer's interview in the paper today, he's got to go. Like by Tuesday at the latest. But the Senate doesn't work that way. Talk about information bubbles. About the only thing that'd penetrate it is if the base of small ActBlue donors drys up. As one of that group, mine sure as ship will.
 
Another story on bad polling for Democrats. And to think, if they'd just put up a little bit of a fight, over anything, I don't think it'd be this bad.

Democrats get bad polling news as party struggles to respond to Trump

Favorability of Democrats has hit a record low as the party struggles to respond to President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk, according to new polling by CNN.

Newsweek reached out to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) via email on Sunday for comment.

Since their defeat in last year's election, Democrats have yet to unite around a unified message and strategy to pushback against Trump, Musk and Republicans. Voters and party activists have expressed frustration with the lack of direction, as the Democratic Party also has no clear leader in the present moment.

Meanwhile, Trump and Musk, the world's wealthiest man, are in overdrive making mashive cuts across the federal government via the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

CNN on Sunday released new polling of 1,206 U.S. adults carried out by SSRS that showed the Democratic Party's favorability rating standing at just 29 percent. According to CNN, that's a record low in the media outlet's polling data going all the way back to 1992. It also represents a 20-point drop since the end of Trump's first term in January 2021.

Comparatively, the Republican Party's favorability among the American public, while not strong, stands somewhat higher at 36 percent. This is largely due to the fact that most Republicans view their party favorably whereas Democrats are expressing substantial dissatisfaction...
 
Didn't somebody make a joke post -- sort of -- a week or two ago regarding the French taking back the Statue of Liberty? (I think it was a response to Trump wanting to take back the Panama Canal, or something?) I tried to find the post but couldn't, but I remember it specifically, because I thought it was a good if short-and-sweet one.

Well...

MSN

France should take back the Statue of Liberty because the US no longer represents the values that led France to offer the statue, a French MEP said Sunday.

"Give us back the Statue of Liberty", centre-Left politician Raphael Glucksmann said at a convention of his Place Publique centre-left movement.

Mr Glucksmann rose to prominence last summer and has become a key figure in the increasingly powerful Leftist alliance in France.

His comments come as Donald Trump's presidency has spread widespread fears about the future of European security and democracy in America.

"We're going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: 'Give us back the Statue of Liberty'," Mr Glucksmann told cheering supporters.

"We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home," he added.
 
Love to hear an idea to go along with this post.

From me?

Well, if I'd been involved, I wouldn't have voted for the Republican budget. Any government shutdown would have been squarely on the Republicans.

And if I were in the Democratic House or Senate, I would've been making an issue and raising a stink about every single illegal and/or ethically/morally reprehensible thing Trump has done. I would have been a pain in the ash about everything, and I'd be putting my outrage out there for all to see and hear, and I'd have been broadcasting it in every way and with everyone, that I could. I'd also be compiling all those things and trying to make a case for his removal from office, and then trying to take steps in that direction. If that involves getting primaried or risking the loss of my job, well, then so be it. The country needs Congress to work on its behalf, and that has not been happening.

Trump never would've gotten away with stealing and taking home clashified documents the first time around, and then refusing to return them. How was he not charged with anything that would stick with regard to that?

I'd be asking Trump questions instead of soft-pedaling everything, or dancing around things. As is often said around here, words matter, and Trump needs some things said/asked right to his face and he needs to be put on the spot. He says "We've been getting ripped off for a long time, and we're not gonna be ripped off anymore," with regard to Canada? I'd be asking him how we've been getting ripped off.

He says he's having an easier time dealing with Putin than with Zelensky? He gets asked why he's not actually dealing with Putin, then, and getting him to pull his troops out of Ukraine, you know, since he was the aggressor?

He wanted to shut down USAid, the greatest humanitarian organization in the world? He gets asked how can he live with himself. What exactly are the abuses and frauds that have been found to warrant such an action? And what do you plan to replace USAid with?

He says NATO was formed specifically to rip off and take advantage of the U.S.? He gets a freaking history lesson in why it was actually started, and who, so far, has benefited from it the most.

Oh, and I'd be authoring and trying to move a bill that would prevent someone like Trump -- a convicted felon -- from ever being nominated or able to hold the office of President in the first place. How the hell is that OK?

I'd be proposing an upper age limit for the office of President -- say, 72, maybe -- and working to get that pashed.

Etc., Etc., Etc.
 
Democratic leadership HAS to understand AND RESPECT, that their loss of favorability is coming FROM DEMOCRATIC VOTERS. I attend regular gatherings of "lefties and progressives" and I hear it non-stop. They have no confidence in the current leadership. They are instead working "outside" the party structure (Indivisible, other pet issue groups like environment, women's health groups, local groups) anything BUT the Dems who they feel are useless at a national level. People ask me "What should I do?" I tell them, do anything! do something! We have school board races, organize your friends and neighbors, but don't rely on the capital D Democratic Party to lead us out of this thing. They are befuddled. I've said it before, start finding primary opponents. The Ds are fighting a modern war with 20thC weapons.
 

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