Have you hugged a MAGAneer today? It’s your call, of course. But really, you should. Perhaps he’s an avuncular relation who’s not surfaced from his Trump-postered basement since 2016, or she’s a former BFF who infiltrates your inbox with daily tranches of forwarded dispatches about “Dumbocrat scum” from the Ministry of Virtues and Public Morals.
Whoever your MAGAneer may be, just know that this clinically untreated relative or wacko-reaffirming friend is today in a bad way, a miserable state, a terrible wash of troubled waters.
In short, happy days, a summer festivus for the rest of us. And we can thank Reuters/Ipsos for the good news — which, in the modern era, is singularly defined as anything shockingly awful and immensely disturbing to the MAGAsphere. To wit …
The Ipsos survey says the share of Americans that “strongly approves” of Donald Trump’s medieval fascist regime has, since February 2025, cut itself nearly in half.
Yes, the processional remnant still vowing robust fidelity to #47 and all his works has plunged to 14% of U.S. adults. A mere 18 months ago, they were at 26%.
(Alternative subtitles: By your wounds, O Lord. Grant them rest.)
However, the ever-pious 14% was, sadly, joyfully, again cut in half when the pollster asked how Trump is handling the cost of living; his 7% of mass strong approval has to be some kind of record. But take heart, Donald, for 16% of Americans strongly approve of your foreign policy. We the 84% would simply like to know what it is.
Perhaps as shockingly awful to the MAGA faithful (and spiritually uplifting for us the civilized) is that even among Republican novitiates, Trump’s strong approval rating has undergone, or is undergoing, a crash dive: 64% to 39%, same period.
The unknown option — undergone, or undergoing? — raises even larger questions. Reuters notes that Trump’s overall approval rating (33%) is now “lower than at any point in his current term.” Is that point elastic? That is, potentially lower? And by what degree?
Given that he considers himself messianically infallible, Trump is very unlikely to change course. That, in turn, is very unlikely to result in anything but more economic destruction and more foreign disasters.
So how at that point, one is likely to ask, could such colossally wretched circumstances render yet more good news from the perilous front?
For congressional Republicans, there must be some breaking point. True, it’s allusively, hellishly amorphous. But out there, somewhere, it exists. And given enough oppressive Trumpian force, it would manifest.
The core base’s increasing evaporation of strong approval accompanied by further collapses in blanket approval of this appalling White House would threaten not only many Republicans’ odds of reelection in 2028, the twin phenomena might well threaten the very existence of the Republican Party.
Which is to say, the upcoming presidential cycle could portend a ‘64 Goldwater explosion — times 10. Should Trump’s current allies foresee such a prospect, we’d be advised to watch for regicidal knives coming out.
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