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0 pointsraw_anon_11113mo ago0 comments

Are you looking at the article you linked to? The Harvard survey says:

- 39% say the country is on the right track

- 36% say the economy is good

- 53% say the economy is weak

- 33% say their personal outlook is improving.

In the survey the only one that reaches 50% are about “values”

A senile old man during better than another senile old man is not exactly a raving endorsement.

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rayiner3mo ago

Did you look at page 23, which I cited? “Use the National Guard and active-duty military to police American cities and stop crime and disorder” is at 51% and it goes up from there. “Using the U.S. military to target cartel drug smugglers in Latin America” is at 58%. “ Closing the border with added security and policies that discourage illegal crossings” is at 70%.

Yes, people are upset the economy. But I assume the people complaining about “fascism” on here are upset about Trump’s “values,” which, as you note is at 50%, not his failure to meet his stupid promise to turn back the last few years of inflation.

raw_anon_1111OP3mo ago

Of course, because Trump is being very careful to target just enough cities with the national guard that didn’t vote for him and most of his voters in red states don’t travel especially to those cities.

What do you think the percentage of people would be in favor of using the national guard would be if they were deployed to rural America to stop the meth problem or they were deployed to Memphis, Houston, anywhere in Mississippi and Alabama?

Don’t you find it surprising that you don’t have the same type of ICE raids targeting the red border states but you have them targeting blue cities?

Why is Trump going to war with Venezuela instead of Mexico and Colombia where the drugs actually are? It’s all optics and meant not to upset his base.

Right now, for instance he is trying to pay off his “socialism bad” base of farmers - who he never targets with ICE raids - who are hurting because of his tarriffs.

greenie_beans3mo ago

he already deployed them in memphis. they are doing ICE raids in red states. they are doing them on farms, too.

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