President Donald Trump’s second term has been anything but quiet, yet his approval ratings suggest a remarkable lack of movement among the American public.
A recent AP-NORC poll conducted in January indicates that approximately four in 10 U.S. adults approve of Trump’s performance, a figure virtually unchanged since March 2025, shortly after he began his second tenure in office.
I noticed something in the last 15 years of these polls. For right wing reactionary actions, the approval rating never goes below 30%.
What we are seeing is the cult faithful. Used to be the Tea Party, is now rebranded MAGA.
You will not see the numbers decrease until they die off from age, diet, disease, or “hold my beer”. The danger is the indoctrination of youth.
I kinda doubt the indoctrinated youth at least as it stands now are at replacement levels. Remember Boomers are notably more conservative in a very stable way compared to both those that came before and those that came after, there’s a reason why the shift was so rapid after Reagan. Not trying to make a generational argument per se moreso pointing out that Boomers are a weird statistic anomaly on that front, also they still make up about a quarter of the population even with silent, jones, gen x, millennials, gen z, and gen alpha being present making them lopsided in social influence.