“I really thought Trump’s approval might break below 50 today,” Rasmussen Reports pollster Mark Mitchell confessed. “Back up to 51.”
Why?
“He’s doing what he promised to do. Hence the approval.”
Yet it is hard to hear the support from the din of the critics. And some of Trump’s moves do seem reckless, unconstitutional, or at least not well-thought-out.
But significantly unmentioned in most reports is the common-sense revulsion of normal citizens to the riotous vandalism against Tesla owners’ property.
The more Teslas burn, the more electric cars keyed, the more surfaces spray-painted, the higher Trump’s approval rating will likely go. This was the general tenor of Paul Jacob’s commentary from last week.
But as Trump’s popularity bounces back, the Vermont fake socialist’s popularity rises, too:
Just to be clear about the moment we’re in:@BernieSanders biggest crowd in Phoenix previously was 11,300 in 2015 when he was running for president.
Tonight, in a non-campaign year, when he is running for nothing, 15,000 Arizonans turned out.
This is a big deal.
Anna Bahr (@anna_bahr), X.com (March 20, 2025).
The question is, will Bernie succeed in revving up crowds while dampening down the wildfire of riot and mayhem?
If he doesn’t do the latter, the opposition to the left will get stronger too, feeding Trump’s popularity. For most people not committed to leftism do in fact disapprove of violence, on the whole — despite the constant fear in the Deep State of “right-wing extremism.”
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In many way, Bernard Sanders is indeed a fake; but his belief that the means of production should be seized by the state, somehow acting as the agent of Society-as-a-Whole, is quite genuine, even if he has come to seek personal enrichment in what he imagines as the mean time. We should not confuse socialism with an absence of avarice nor with a generous spirit, though these sometimes are found together in persons. (I’d say that, much more often, an absence of avarice and a generous spirit are found in people who reject socialism’s communal slavery.)
Sanders’ appeal now is to people who have been made to feel like losers. Their Narrative has repeatedly been falsified by events; and, though they have imagined themselves as the 99 Percent or at least as the Other 98 Percent, their opponents won control of the White House and of both Chambers of Congress by election, and retain control of the Supreme Court. Moreover, the DoGE has revealed much of the supposèd grass roots of the left as AstroTurf® synthesized by the deep state. Legacy media and the leadership of the Democratic Party are unable to save the rank-and-file from humiliation; and so, more desperate, they turn to a grumbling Trotskyite and to a voguing bartendress.