What accounts for it being so high?
What accounts for it being so high?
Scumbags
Republicans. Recent poll showed only 2% approval by Dems, and indies down to 29%. Repubs were still like 91%. That said, poll today on Nicolle showed Repubs HAVE dropped from 92% to 83%. KNOW HOPE.
It's a cult
During his first term he always hovered around the mid-30s job approval and I don't think you'll ever be able to crack those nuts.
Nope, they are stuck and cannot be reached.
You wrote "it's a cult" a moment earlier...and you are right. Here's the reason to have hope, cults DO break apart. When things are bad enough. Wait for the oncoming recession to become a depression.
Stupidity.
Fox and the other right wing propaganda machines. If we could cut them down, truth would come out and we would all win.
Racism.
Ignorance and racism.
38% literally voted for a fascist dictatorship.
Because Republicans (yes even in your family and friends regardless of how many excuses you make for them) are fascist garbage humans
Herbert Hoover still had plenty of support during the Great Depression, IIRC Bush still held onto low 30’s numbers even at the end of his disastrous second term. 30’s is not high, lots of folks will simply refuse to ever admit they made a mistake.
25 to 30% of the country is hard-core Maga. That's part of it.
Some of these folks are simply so committed/have made it their entire identity that they just can’t climb down/admit they were wrong.
Also, if they’re only ever get their “information” from Fox News then they think things are going great, Trump is fixing the system, and the only bad things they experience are cause by Obama and Biden… somehow.