Analysis: Trump’s mass deportation is backfiring | CNN Politics
The nearly monthlong survey conducted in June found Americans disapproved of Trump’s handling of immigration by a wide margin: 62% to 35%. And more than twice as many Americans strongly disapproved (45%) as strongly approved (21%).
It also found nearly 7 in 10 independents disapproved.
These are Trump’s worst numbers on immigration yet. But the trend has clearly been downward – especially in high-quality polling like Gallup’s.
An NPR-PBS News-Marist College poll conducted late last month, for instance, showed 59% of independents disapproved of Trump on immigration. And a Quinnipiac University poll showed 66% of independents disapproved.
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There’s a real question in all of this whether people care that much. They might disapprove of some of the more controversial aspects of Trump’s deportations, but maybe it’s not that important to them – and they might even like the ultimate results.
That’s the bet Trump seems to be making: that he can push forward on something his base really wants and possibly even tempt his political opponents to overreach by appearing to defend people who are in the country illegally.
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I sincerely hope any of this makes a positive difference
Pro-ICE Dems like Elisa Slotkin will do their damndest to make sure it doesn't if we let them
Do people think Trump actually cares whether anyone approves of what he’s doing? It’s too little, too late. This is what happens when you vote for a fascist.
This has nothing do with if Trump cares or not. It’s all to do with where the American public is at and what pressure he’ll get from them. The poll is just an indicator and nothing more.
What pressure? Unless they're about to take up arms, conservative voters have no way to have their concerns make a difference. Republican politicians have no ability to seriously question Trump, as he's thoroughly shaped them into an army of yesmen by now. Even if they switched sides to join the Democrats, that party has already shown a complete unwillingness to meaningfully push back against fascism. There's really not much they can even imagine to do.
He shows response to a lot of push back. Want him to change his mind? Just be as big a bully as he is. He back down every time.
Mainstream media still thinking you can vote fascism away
People would probably accept deportations, sadly, but thought the warnings about concentration camps were overblown.
And in the Everglades, of all places. Barbaric, but also really fucking dumb.