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Looks like he's slid into around 60/40 approval within his own party. Indies have him 30 pts lower than that.
Okay, but what about if you're speaking as an unaligned voter in a swing state?
Then I'm saying "at least he's not openly fascist but the democratic party still fuckin sucks."
I mean, I wish. But Democrats threw tens of millions of dollars to a "Pro-Trump" Dem Senate candidate in Tennessee. Mayor Adams, up in NYC, has echoed a host of the Trump "immigrant invasion" talking points, when confronted with bus-loads of women and children kidnapped and displaced by governors' Abbot and DeSantis.
Then you've got Sinema in Arizona and Manchin in West Virginia and even John Ossoff of Georgia demanding hundred of millions for bigger and more heavily armed police forces to clamp down on any kind of public dissent in their historically red states. Our AG is once again refusing to close the torture camp in Gitmo, while Anthony Blinken runs around the Middle East peddling advanced weapons systems to extremist governments in Saudi Arabia and Nigeria and India.
You can "Trump would be worse" all you like, but this shit is truly awful on a scale its hard to overstate.
Pretty sure "but the democratic party still fuckin sucks" covers all that.
How do you describe any of this as less than open fascism?