"Trump is kicking ass"While the president’s approval rating has slipped since he took office, it remained narrowly positive ahead of his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, according to the latest 538 poll of polls, and higher than at practically any point in his first term.
Some supporters expressed qualms over Trump’s courting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the persistence of the high prices that he promised to curb by unleashing US oil production. But most were satisfied that in both cases, the president knew what he was doing.
“Putin’s evil, there’s no doubt about it. But sometimes you have to deal with evil if you want to save people,” said Tim Davenport, 58, who works in construction. “Trump just wants to end the war.”
He applauded the president’s sacking of “woke” generals and his crackdown on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. “Government’s too big and the liberals are goofy,” said Davenport, who has voted for Trump three times. “Common sense, there’s just not enough of it.”
Sorry to say it again, but I think the root cause of all this is Americans' critical thinking being underdeveloped as a result of decades of a weak education system. Obviously, we have to do what we can to keep the country from falling apart (and admittedly, there isn't much we can do), but the root cause will take decades to fix.
JD Vance and a bunch of Project 2025 people are into
the Dark Enlightenment (what a weird thing to say), so they actually like this, and the destruction of the Department of Education and the NIH, etc. will help with advancing authoritarianism, which they outright think is good.
BTW, last time I had analytics, which was maybe last year, it looked like I had about 10-20 readers. If any of you would prefer not to read these kind of "sucks, not much you can do about it" posts, let me know. I can easily config up another microblog for that.