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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,535 posts)
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:52 PM Nov 12

***NEW AP NORC Poll*** Trump's Approval Falls to a Dismal 36% *

https://apnorc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Nov-Topline-Final.pdf






*Close to the number of Americans which polling indicates would prefer an authoritarian form of government. I suspect some of the thirty percent or so who would prefer an authoritarian form of government would prefer for it to ensure the proverbial trains run on time.
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DemocratSinceBirth

(101,535 posts)
2. I duno.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:55 PM
Nov 12

I duno. Maybe they made the calculus that shutting down the government would boomerang on us.

Demsrule86

(71,455 posts)
17. Nothing is worth giving up the ACA.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 03:32 PM
Nov 12

Millions will die. The ACA took 50 years to arrive and it was damned difficult. Folks died (how dare they) and switched parties. I don’t think we will get healthcare back. Medicare is next. We need new leaders

bearsfootball516

(6,665 posts)
3. 36 is probably getting close to his floor.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 12:56 PM
Nov 12

He may drop a few more if the bottom were to fall out of the economy, but 36 is pretty awful.

DemocratSinceBirth

(101,535 posts)
4. Thirty percent of Americans which is frightening and sickening have authoritarian tendencies.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:01 PM
Nov 12

That's likely his floor unless they become convinced he's a feckless autocrat.

Ars Longa

(360 posts)
10. The only way the Hardcore abandon him, is if it hits them HARD, with no way
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:45 PM
Nov 12

to blame others (i.e. Democrats)!!

ProfessorGAC

(75,297 posts)
15. Maybe
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 02:26 PM
Nov 12

I think his absolute floor is 30%. 25% are true believers for one reason or another & 5% that don't care about anything but lower taxes.
It could be 36%, as you say, but I seriously doubt it's under 30.

DemocratSinceBirth

(101,535 posts)
6. The thirty percent of Americans who want a dictator have Trump which is the closest they have ever got.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:03 PM
Nov 12

dem4decades

(13,424 posts)
7. It's amazing how 30% run the entire country.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:08 PM
Nov 12

Or it's amazing that 30% ruin the entire country.

Take your pick.

Prairie Gates

(6,881 posts)
8. Even authoritarian personalities like to eat a burger once in a while
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:24 PM
Nov 12

If prices keep skyrocketing he's going to lose some percentage of even this sub-basement.

Torchlight

(6,152 posts)
9. I think he's reached the lame duck section of his chicken bucket.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:36 PM
Nov 12

At this point, I think his only plan is to take as much as he can, hold on to it as tightly as he can, and keep as much as of it as he can after all is over and done. His support among GOP leadership is flaccid and getting softer every day, last week poured dye on the the stain and showed obvious cracks and fault lines.

bearsfootball516

(6,665 posts)
11. I agree. And the closer we get to the 2028 election, the less sway he'll have with congressional GOPers
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:58 PM
Nov 12

The less amount of time a president has in his lame duck term, the less influence they're usually able to exert over their party, because congresspeople know they just have to wait out the president until his term is over.

Especially if the midterms are ugly, both house and senate republicans will start putting distance between themselves and him.

lostnfound

(17,297 posts)
18. Big deal. He was at 32% for a while in 2017.. just noise, not a big shift.
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 04:21 PM
Nov 12

The referenced polls wander from the mid 30s to low 40s without any real trend.
32 in December 2017 and September 2017.

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