Summary

A genuine backlash to Trump’s ethno-nationalist authoritarianism may be starting to take shape on its own terms.

The Washington Post-ABC News poll shows “Trump slipping underwater on immigration, which has been his best issue,” with 56% of independents disapproving of his handling.

Only 21% of independents want wrongfully deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia to remain imprisoned. These policies “raise basic issues of fundamental fairness, due process, and the rule of law.”

Trump’s lawlessness across the board is clearly a problem, reinforcing the view he’s engaged in rampant extralegal abuses of power.

      • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world
        382·
        1 day ago

        Almost as stupid as Gavin Newsom saying deportations were a distraction from tariffs and Dems shouldn’t talk about them because Republicans were strong on that issue

        • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          3 hours ago

          Or that Ball Park Hot Dog Oligarch DINO Elissa Slotkin, who gave the Democratic response to HitlerPig’s SOTU address, and started by trying to sell the concept that there were millions of people who voted a straight Democratic ticket, except for HitlerPig at the top.

          Sure, there were probably a few, but they are as rare as white squirrels. She was the water carrier for the weak Democratic excuse that HitlerPig win “fair & square,” so they could act smug about their “peaceful transfer of power” to literal Nazis. Something to really be proud of, assholes.

          Anyhoo, she came out this week and said that they should stop attacking the “Oligarchy,” basically saying that people are too stupid to understand what the word oligarchy means. Of course she thinks that, she’s a Sociopathic Oligarch herself, a DINO at best, and a MAGA Oligarch Mole at worst. Remember that she was previously a CIA analyst, so she comes from a world where lies and duplicity are a valued skill.

          She’s a snake, and I hope she gets successfully primaried for reelection.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
          242·
          1 day ago

          …but surely centrist hacks with zero integrity who cede the framing of every argument to fascists are the future of the party!!

          • aesthelete@lemmy.world
            12·
            1 day ago

            Definitely make every political move you do based upon focus groups and polling, because people definitely love sock-in-the-wind, flip-flopping political creeps with no actual values!

        • ripcord@lemmy.world
          145·
          1 day ago

          Slightly stupider than all the “I’m NoT vOtInG fOr GeNoCiDe” dumbasses.

            • Franklin@lemmy.ca
              123·
              1 day ago

              single issue voting (or nonvoting) never ends well no matter how good the intentions.

              especially when that single issue isn’t even fixed by the other side.

              • wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org
                52·
                22 hours ago

                They’re incredibly naive people who think they have some defensible moral high ground because they didn’t vote, but the truth is they’ve accomplished nothing and surrendered their vote to fascists. If they really cared they’d be out there calling their congressman and lobbying for a change in policy. Yes, this is hard, but no one said change would be easy. The only reason Biden won the previous election is because people went out and voted. The reason Trump won is because they didn’t vote. And I bet these people will not take responsibility for his transgressions even though they are partly responsible. I cannot help but feel we deserve this pain because our population would rather take the hypothetical moral high ground over voting for the better candidate.