• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      Which is still a big deal.

      Like abhorrent it’s that high. But I remember people swearing 40% was the floor and due to the cult it could never go lower.

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        The historical benchmark I use is this: Nixon was at 31% when he resigned. I think GWB also hit a similar number, but he never was facing articles of impeachment.

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          I’m seeing 24. I mean Trumps last presidency he left at 34 percent so he’s still up from before sadly.

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        Cults break down, a good example is something like Sinnanon where up until the authoritarian tendencies kicked in it managed to maintain a pretty decent size. Then they went full authoritarian and the cult started to bleed numbers.

        Personally my bet is that Trump can go as low as 20 percent approval, though it’ll require some specialized circumstances or shit just getting worse all around.

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        Republican congressthings clearly have the same data on their internal polls, which is why they felt it safe to kill the dumpster-fire bill Trump tried to ram through.