• GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    Even post-Watergate Nixon had 25%. I think no matter what he does it isn’t going to drop below that, there’s a subset of the population that simply won’t adjust their opinion on of him.

    Keep in mind a lot of people simply aren’t paying attention and a lot of people have made MAGA a core part of their personality; to turn on it now would mean admitting that all their social media posts, financial contributions, merch, and ruined relationships were in vain. It’s massively humiliating to admit to yourself and others that you were that overconfidantly wrong to hitch your wagon to a known conman rapist.

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      8 hours ago

      I’ve found that in every US political poll, the absolute worst of the worst topic or candidate will almost always have 25-30% support. I really think a quarter of people are complete assholes who lack empathy and care for no one but themselves.

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        7 hours ago

        Realistically, a portion of that is going to be people trolling/giving a “joke” answer, a portion is going to be people who are so unaware of literally anything going on that they just answer “sure, it’s fine”, or are basically illiterate and effectively just answer randomly. The number of people who are seriously answering are going to be a smaller subset of that number, greater than 0% but lower than the true number.