Welcome back to Behind the Numbers with Rick & Andrew Wilson, your weekly guide to the polling, the data, and the math that’s driving the headlines.
Are you horrified by the smartphone footage of masked ICE thugs ripping pregnant women away from their young children? What about police hammering a U.S. senator to the ground for simply asking a question? Horses trampling peaceful protestors? Stormtroopers shooting pedestrians point-blank with rubber bullets?
I could go on. But if you are horrified, you’re not alone — and the numbers prove it. Americans are patently disgusted by what’s going on in our streets. Not only that, they don’t love how Trump’s handling immigration in general. Or trade. Or the economy. Or inflation.
Americans don’t like his presidency.
This might feel like a logical outcome of inherently cruel and shitty policies. Who favors state-sponsored violence against its own citizens? Well…the MAGA base still does. But virtually no one else.
The disdain for Trump’s militarizing of our cities is also trickling down to other areas of this administration.
One takeaway from these downward trends in polling for Orange Flush is that Americans are finally remembering what they hated about the first Trump term. When he’s in office, there is chaos.
This week,
and break down these trends and talk through the implications for our Democracy. Are these numbers cause for hope (please, please, please make them a cause for hope)? Or is this just a blip? Or, God forbid, is polling just a quaint artifact of a functioning Democracy that once was?Whatever the case, it’s been a long week but, somehow, it’s just getting started. There’s a non-zero chance everything will have changed by Monday. But whatever happens, you can hear about it here.
P.S. Going to a protest this weekend? First, be careful out there. We have the high ground, and we need to keep it. Second, send us your protest pics and we’ll select a few to run.
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