30% of the population thinks tanking the economy, shredding the constitution, and deporting people to what is essentially a death camp without due process, all totally legal and very cool.
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Reminds me of this book about interviews with "ordinary" non-political, non-military Nazi party members in Germany. Just regular citizens with jobs and families. "They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45" (1955).
"The author determined that his interviewees had fond memories of the Nazi period and did not see Adolf Hitler as evil, and they perceived themselves as having a high degree of personal freedom during Nazi rule, with the exception of the teacher. Additionally, barring said teacher, the subjects still disliked Jewish people... At the time of the interviews the interviewees were still not in favor of the democratic Bonn government."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Thought_They_Were_Free
Excerpt from the book: https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html
Sample size was 10 men.... The author didnt even speak german
It's not a poll. It's a book.
Doesnt matter if you're writing a book or a poll....It's a very flawed methodolgy
The world is full of dumb people shocker
And the other six? racist illiterate scumbags.
Could be a sampling bias. If you take 100 people at random from each state, the results would favor Trump. But 100 people is a larger percentage of red states than it is of blue states.
If you reword it as "4 out of 10 square miles think Trump is a bad president", it makes more sense, if you compare it to a political alignment map.
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Shows that Trump is not the problem. He is the symptom.
What the fuck is wrong with the other six?
Lots of things!
How is it only 4 in 10?
Oh wait, maybe the other options were Horrible and stinking, which both received 3 votes.
He's getting a masterclass in negotiation from Xi and I'm here for it.
Was this written by AI?
Forty-two percent of Independents say Trump has the wrong priorities, 30 percent say an even mix, 9 percent believe he has the wrong priorities and 19 percent don’t know.
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