Trump has highest approval ratings ever

[Prosper]

Totally doesn’t make sense. Trump has some of his highest ratings ever. Positioning himself as wartime president makes me think he is getting ready to drop martial law hammer.

And: In 2018, he weakened the country’s ability to respond to pandemics when he decided to dismantle a National Security Council directorate at the White House charged with preparing for them. His Interior Department failed to update a pandemic plan that was first prepared over a decade ago. His administration failed to restock the Strategic National Stockpile, America’s store

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.newsweek.com/trump-approval-rating-coronavirus-poll-1494637%3famp=

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.truthdig.com/articles/if-trump-declares-martial-law-due-to-coronavirus-can-he-suspend-the-election/%3famp

[janterry]

1. This always happens

sadly.

[TheBlackAdder]

31. Just wait until the Trump states start experiencing mass death.

[snowybirdie]

2. Beginning

to believe that Russia has hacked our polling data.

[ck4829]

3. Rise is courtesy of dumb, panicky animals. Sorry, but it's true.

There is a crisis... it doesn't mean let someone else do your critical thinking for you.

Jesus.

[lagomorph777]

4. Something is fishy. I agree this has to be hacked.

At a time when Trump is performing worse and causing more American deaths than at any time in his abysmally bad term, it is not plausible that people like his performance.

[uponit7771]

22. Bush 2 was at 90% post 911 attack, these numbers are horrible for Trump

[lagomorph777]

36. I was in the other 10% after 9/11 (more like in the extreme 1%).

Thanks for the point of comparison!

[no_hypocrisy]

5. I would hold the demographic of those surveyed to be suspect.

Was it in the states with comparatively low CV19 numbers?

[2naSalit]

11. Selectively chosen sample.

If you select your participants carefully and ask questions in a particular manner you can make any survey say what you want it to.

And then there is hacking and pay-offs that can come into play. With an opponent who is known for lying, cheating and manipulation, does anyone really think the results could be objective? Really?

[DinahMoeHum]

6. "48% job approval" is the highest" he's scored????? LMAO !!!

That's not even HALF the population!!!!!!

His approval numbers are not really going up. He's been polling in the 40s for the longest time, and there's no real evidence that the numbers beyond his base have risen. Or ever will rise.

Real polling, IMO, won’t be seen for weeks. And believe me, when it happens, it ain’t gonna be pretty for him.

Making people bankrupt and helping cause the death of their loved ones ain't gonna play well even in the red states.

And there's every reason to believe that when COVID-19 peaks in the red states, like Florida, Texas and Arizona, they'll fare even worse because their state governments didn't do enough to prepare their populations.

Just my 2 cents.

[bdamomma]

9. In the South too

but then there are those on the religious right who are just lining up for the rapture, I say go ahead.

[DinahMoeHum]

23. Tee hee! When their Rapture comes. . .

. . .we'll take all their things.






#newrostrong

[Greybnk48]

17. Pathetic. And it's probably been inflated. n/t

[bearsfootball516]

7. There's always a "rally around the president" mentality during a national crisis.

Remember that Bush jumped into the 90s immediately after 9/11.

This isn't really a surprise.

[GeorgeGist]

8. If true ...

we're doomed.

[uponit7771]

21. That's abysmal Bush 2 was at 90% after 911, Carter, RayGun, FDR all had much bigger bumps

... this is a flag rally.

[dalton99a]

10. Kick

[2naSalit]

12. +1

[lagomorph777]

15. There it is. We should not think Turd's behavior has gotten better over time.

[uponit7771]

20. +1, these numbers are abysmal

[smirkymonkey]

35. +1000

Too many people hate him with a passion. I am not buying these inflated poll number at all.

[Takket]

13. The reality of this situation is going to make that crash

A lot of articles going around about how we wasted two months of prep time and TV ads have started too. So far all most people are watching is how big a check they are going to get.

[artemisia1]

14. It would be naive to discount this. Enough voted for Trump for him to eke out an Electoral College

It would be naive to discount this. Enough voted for Trump for him to eke out an Electoral College victory. Those same people will rally around someone who says what they want to hear. As to the other 10-15%, many are perpetual side-liners who will approve of anyone with enough bluster to appear in charge during a crisis. Yes, his numbers are up, NO, they may not stay high as the reality -- and wreckage -- sink in. Sorry.

[Hawaii Hiker]

16. The congressional approval is also at its highest point in a long time

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/congressional_job_approval-903.html

31%

[stopbush]

18. Compared to W's 90% approval rating after 911, tRump's ratings are still

in the shitter.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. Two words: Stockholm Syndrome.

We're captive in our homes, and too many people are willing to foolishly bond with our kidnapper, so to speak.

It will fade, however.

[bdamomma]

25. God I hope

so. Stay safe

[Celerity]

27. I so hate that term

Celerity <<<< lives in Södermalm, central Stockholm


Why Stockholm Syndrome Could Be A Total Myth

https://www.businessinsider.com/stockholm-syndrome-could-be-a-myth-2013-10?r=US&IR=T

The New Yorker's new profile of kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart makes an intriguing point about Stockholm Syndrome: It isn't a recognized psychiatric disorder. The term was coined after a 1973 bank robbery in Sweden spurred bank employees to bond with and eventually defend their captors. In America, Stockholm Syndrome was made famous by Patty Hearst, an heiress who joined the violent left-wing group that kidnapped her.

Some experts speculated that Smart had Stockholm, too, even though the disorder has rarely been studied and isn't listed in the DSM V, the bible of psychiatric disorders. One of the few academic studies on Stockholm Syndrome concludes that there's hardly any academic research on the subject. "There is very little evidence to sort of validate that Stockholm Syndrome exists," Emory University clinical psychologist Nadine Kaslow told Business Insider. She added, "It is mostly talked about in the media."

Smart's kidnapping in 2002 when she was 14 baffled the public because her captors often put her in a veil and strolled around her hometown of Salt Lake City. When Smart was rescued after nine months, experts speculated to The New York Times that she didn't try to flee earlier because she suffered from Stockholm Syndrome and identified with her captors.

''The captor also becomes the nurturer," child psychologist Dr. Arthur Brand told the Times. "They're an abuser, but also the only person who can take care of you and keep you alive." The FBI's Law Enforcement Bulletin reported in 2007 that it wasn't unheard of for captives to bond with their kidnappers but that it was a rare occurrence. For her part, Smart rejects the theory that she identified with her kidnappers. She says she remained with them because she was terrified.

snip


'Stockholm syndrome': psychiatric diagnosis or urban myth?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18028254



Stockholm Syndrome: The True Story of Hostages Loyal to Their Captor

https://www.history.com/news/stockholm-syndrome



Press photographers and police snipers lie side by side on a roof opposite the bank where hostages were being held on August 24, 1973.

[Poiuyt]

24. He hasn't been tweeting or holding his damn rallies

I don't know how much longer he can hold out though.

[DonaldsRump]

26. Any other President would be at 90% approval

Folks rally around the President in times of crisis. His numbers are AWFUL given what's going on
.

[lpbk2713]

28. How can this happen with such a miserable failure?

The whole world knows what a complete loser he is.
He must have found a way to manipulate the numbers.

[HarlanPepper]

29. It's the rally around the flag effect

I don’t know why people can’t grasp that.

[Vogon_Glory]

30. Trump may have high approval numbers now BUT

as this crisis continues, the economy tanks, and the casualties mount, those numbers WILL fall.

[2naSalit]

32. I smell a pile of poo-

tin. Where have we seen this sort of thing before?

[spooky3]

33. 48% of the country do not watch news stations that tell them the truth.

So when they hear his lies, they believe them.

[lark]

34. Elections aren't until Nov. this will completely blow up before then.

All these rw asses that are ok with granny dying will sure change their minds when it's their mothers and fathers and they themselves that are sick/dying. They just say this because they think being rich will protect them - well, they are wrong and the evidence will be before them within 3 weeks.