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Trump Hits New Levels Of Unpopularity — And The Numbers Are Getting Ugly

Trump Hits New Levels Of Unpopularity — And The Numbers Are Getting Ugly

Published by Sam Flores

Fewer Americans approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance right now than at any prior point in his second term in office, according to the most-trusted average of publicly available polls. Just 40% of Americans give him a thumbs up, with a whopping 56% disappointed. The numbers, from Nate Silver’s Silver Bulletin, are not dramatically worse than Trump’s previous second-term low points. But other public surveys released in recent days paint a similar picture, and it’s not a good one for the president. His once-strong approval ratings on immigration have tumbled since ICE surged into Chicago and Minnesota this winter. His handling of the economy and the cost of living has been steadily dropping since he returned to office, with the spike in gas prices due to Trump’s decision to join Israel in attacking Iran potentially causing further deterioration. It adds up to a president in significant political trouble ahead of November’s midterm elections. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released Tuesday found Trump’s approval rating dropping to just 36%, with 62% of adults disapproving of his job …

‘By sacrificing American soft power, Trump is exacerbating his country’s unpopularity and prompting Europeans to exercise their own’

‘By sacrificing American soft power, Trump is exacerbating his country’s unpopularity and prompting Europeans to exercise their own’

Published by Sam Flores

Discomfort among MAGA (Make America Great Again) supporters, Donald Trump’s declining popularity, poor polling ahead of the midterm elections… All those oscillating between dismay, anxiety and outrage at the daily damage inflicted by the American president on global affairs cling to every setback of the White House’s king. “As Trump’s behavior becomes more and more indefensible (…) a genuine backlash is finally underway,” writes Gideon Rachman, a columnist at the Financial Times, hoping that his rule will go down as a “grotesque aberration – rather than a lasting shift.” While a solid core of 40% of voters continues to trust him and the midterms in the fall could resemble elections in an authoritarian country where an autocrat cannot imagine losing, no one truly knows what the United States will look like in 2028, at the end of the presidential term. However, a stark reality is becoming clear, especially to Europeans. Whatever the future may hold for Trumpism, the US is no longer the great, stable superpower and ally, whose values were criticized but also often …

Brexit’s unpopularity reignites debate in UK over EU ties

Brexit’s unpopularity reignites debate in UK over EU ties

Published by Sam Flores

Since the United Kingdom formally left the European Union on January 31, 2020, British politicians have largely avoided, as much as possible, putting the Brexit issue back up for debate. Voters have grown weary of the divisions generated by the June 2016 referendum on leaving the EU and the endless negotiations with Brussels that followed. Keir Starmer, Labour’s relatively pro-European leader, has notably been rather cautious and rarely addressed the separation, paralyzed by the prospect of alienating working-class Brexit supporters whose votes he sought to win for his party. This strategy paid off in the 2024 general election. The Conservatives now no longer dare to boast about having brought Brexit to fruition after the chaotic tenures of anti-EU prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, and their failure to produce tangible benefits for UK citizens. Even Nigel Farage, leader of the far-right Reform UK party and spiritual father of Brexit, has since appeared to lose interest in it, having shifted the target of his scapegoating from the EU to immigrants. While the economic disaster that …