Within the new polling from the Washington Post and ABC, 48% of respondents said they are financially worse off than when Trump returned to office in 2025.
According to the Post, that represents the highest percentage saying this about any president in this series of polls since 1986.
A majority of those surveyed – 67%– also said that Trump is not committed to protecting freedom of the press. This comes after a protracted battle to ban CNN, MS Now and Politico from the White House grounds. A federal judge has subsequently issued a preliminary injunction blocking the administration from enforcing the ban.
Meanwhile, 61 % people also said that Trump is not committed to free and fair elections, according to the poll.
I know most will see the title and think ‘well no shit’, but that polling is reflecting these things we all kinda just understand to be evidently true is a big deal.
The culty mentality has been enough to shield Donald in the past and, while he won’t face any meaningful accountability, this anger is what’s driving the two dozen or so DSA candidacies that might actually result in some measure of positive change after November.
Agreed, the point of the poll is not to show what 86/47 IS indeed enriching himself, is not committed to press freedom, etc. We already know these things are facts. The point is that many more people now realize these facts, despite propaganda to the contrary.
Diesel fuel is great at washing away delusion.