A majority of Americans say President Trump is a “dangerous dictator” who poses a threat to democracy and believe he’s overstepped his authority by actions such as the mass firing of federal employees, a new survey says.

The wide-ranging poll released Tuesday, on Trump’s 100th day in office, is the latest sign of him losing support for his immigration and economic policies — the two issues that largely fueled his election.

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    WHAT!?!?! The guy that said he would be a dictator on day one is a dictator on day one!?!?! Who could have seen this coming!?!?!

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    Start running polls asking if they think the military should forcefully remove him. Get everyone on board and used to the idea

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      They were protest voting because Harris wasn’t good enough, so now they hold their heads high that they didn’t vote for the person who wasn’t strong enough against genocide while the genocide accelerationist tries to speedrun the bad end.

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      It’s quite the achievement of malice and desperation.
      I hate the orange shitgibbon. I absolutely detest that moving sack of human effluence, but you’ve got to give him credit where it’s due. 250 years of diplomacy down the shitter in less than 100 days.

      I can only hope that history will treat him the way he deserves to be treated and that his sycophants get the same.

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      All this talk of the Roman Empire and all has been because they intend to hand over all authority to Trump. Just like the Roman Senate did for Caesar.

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      Clearly the system has major flaws that got us here, such as not enabling the judicial branch to enforce laws, first past the post voting leading to a two party system, non-mathematical districting enabling gerrymandering, etc.

      The biggest one though, is forming the country around capitalism, which enables people who seek power to obtain it via exploiting people for profit. The now-powerful then use their power to buy the government so that they could be allowed to exploit people further for more short term financial gain.

      If the workers owned the businesses they worked for and if we had a hard wealth cap of $50m by taxing everything over that at 100%, no single person would be able to obtain that kind of power/influence to begin with.

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    They’re coming for you! These concentration camps are for you!

    80 Billion all itemized for your oppression and death.

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      And his cultists repeatedly say they’re overjoyed with how horrible he’s being. This country is absolutely cooked.

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    Almost like these people should have voted for Harris then or some shit. Who would have known, right? 🙄

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      All the DNC needed to do was condemn Israel’s genocide in Gaza and to stop enabling it. Instead, we have to deal with this shit. Maybe they’ll learn and they can be swing to actual progressive, but I won’t hold my breath.

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        That’s not true at all. Online liberals would have found some other thing to crucify Harris over. The idea that some of you guys didn’t support a candidate because of the actions of a foreign government, is simply baffling to me.

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          Sorry, I should have clarified. I’m not in that boat, but for the people who have told me they didn’t vote, that was the biggest issue for them. Maybe there would have been something else, but I believe a policy change with Israel would have been enough to get those people out. I guess we’ll never know.

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            Looking at the bigger picture should have been enough, and they simply refused to do that.

            I said it last summer that we were going to single-issue our way to authoritarianism, and yep, here we are.

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              Yep. Israel pushed disinfo, Russia pushed disinfo, and the republicans all pushed the same shit, and people bought it hook, line, and sinker.

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          The idea that some of you guys didn’t support a candidate because of the actions of a foreign government, is simply baffling to me.

          It’s baffling you because that’s not what happened, you just want to see it that way

          It was Harris’ support of what that other country was doing (which means she’d actively support them to continue doing it), which is the actions of what was literally our current government at the time

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        I voted for Clinton and Harris enthusiastically. Are they perfect candidates? No. No candidate is perfect, and that’s the problem with online leftists. Seemingly, they will only get off the couch when they have 100% of what they want. This is also why the party doesn’t court leftists in this country. Because even if they give them 80% of what they want, that 20% will keep them on the internet complaining they’re not getting that 20.

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          Yep. All or nothing, perfect or bust, nothing is ever fucking good enough. They’ll screech for that last 20% (fair enough) but when they realize they might only get 80%, they’ll sit on their ass on election day or vote 3rd party to “teach them a lesson”.

          I agree with them on pretty much most things, but my god, they’re fucking insufferable.

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            Exactly. I’m very liberal, but I’m also a pragmatist. If we get half of the shit we want, lets fucking go. The idea that every single promise Biden had given that wasn’t fulfilled was a reason to sit out was fucking stupid. The biggest one was student loan forgiveness. He did something, and the fucking republicans played lawfare to stop it and even then he still forgave almost a quarter of a billion dollars in loan debt.

            Like…

            How fucking entitled, and spoiled are you, that you let perfect be the enemy of good? Get out of your privileged bubble, and actually pull the fucking dog sled with everyone, instead of standing off to the side preaching about how you’d do it better.

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              How fucking entitled, and spoiled are you, that you let perfect be the enemy of good? Get out of your privileged bubble, and actually pull the fucking dog sled with everyone, instead of standing off to the side preaching about how you’d do it better.

              👏

              My favorite excuse I’ve heard is “Well, Trump getting elected isn’t my fault. I didn’t vote, which means I didn’t vote for him”.

              If the technology existed for me to punch someone via the internet, I would have used it. And I’m a pretty peaceful guy lol.

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                Broooo I know it’s like… Fuck dude you need smacked across the mouth for talking like that.

                How fucking lazy some of these people are, you know?

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                  Lazy, entitled, and just…not even living in the same reality it seems.

                  Like, instead of compromising ever so slightly to get 80% of what they want, they refuse to budge and get 0% of what they want. Worse, even, because now we’re losing what we already had.

                  Thanks for letting me vent lol.

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    All of these polls are completely useless. Trump has a 30-40% base of supporters. So naturally, all polls about Trump will show a majority against him.
    Unfortunately, 30-40% is more than enough.
    Cause another 50%+ will never resist in any way, and will still plead “this must be a mistake” when the brownshirts break down their door, take their life savings, and order their daughter to undress in front of them.

    30% support is what the Nazis in Germany had, with 10% actual Nazi party members.

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    Almost as if Harris and the DNC should have tried harder, and the dumbasses who stayed home should have held their noses and voted.

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    They sure seem reluctant to do something about him though.

    “This guy is a real threat, he’s dangerous! He’s a dictator, he shouldn’t be in power!”

    “Alright, you’re the people, go do something about it.”

    “Ehhh…”

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    Hmm it’s almost as if people are catching on to the Terracotta Tyrant! And that only after checks notes a career of grifting, skirting the law and intimidation, four years of a failed presidency, a lost election, and a campaign full of tyrannical rhetoric.

    Phew, it’s a good thing the American People ™ so quickly recognize people for who and what they really are.