I came across a CBS poll that had Trump's approval at 53%. Now, that's an outlier. However, respondents say that Trump is "doing what he said he was going to do" especially around deportations, which are popular.
This is the real reason why American democracy is dying. People are incredibly ignorant.
Trump has not, in fact, done massive deportations. He's had people film dramatic footage of deportations, but the numbers are actually pretty low. He's creating the image of deporting a lot of people, and Google is apparently helping him by pushing these stories to the top of the search engine. Trump has also not "won" any trade wars with our neighbors. He promised "big beautiful tariffs" but hasn't done jackshit.
What Trump HAS done was exactly what he promised he was not going to do: Project 2025. This incredibly unpopular agenda was explicitly disowned by Trump during the campaign, and reporters credulously reported his denials (and Democrats stopped talking about it for some reason). Everything Musk is doing, the attacks on things like medical research or firing federal workers are all part of that blueprint.
Yes, Trump was lying when he disavowed Project 2025. Trump always lies. He is congenitally incapable of telling the truth. Yet, the media - bound by archaic norms - refused to note that Trump was lying or managed to do so in a way that blunted the impact of his lies.
Now we are under full scale siege, a siege that is going to be largely invisible to Americans that think Trump is "doing what he promised" until the government blows up and collapses.
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