Six days after the U.S. attacked Iran as part of a joint operation with Israel, opinion polls reveal grave doubts among the American public about the endeavor.
A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted right after hostilities began found only 27% of surveyed Americans approve of the U.S. actions against Iran, while 43% disapproved and 29% said they were unsure.
The lack of public support spells political peril for Trump, even as he enthuses about how well American actions are going, celebrates the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and suggests that U.S. operations against the Islamic Republic will likely only last four weeks or so.
Trump has so far abjured the traditional modes of wartime communication, such as a prime-time televised address to the nation. He has instead opted for a combination of videos released on his own social media accounts, extemporaneous remarks at White House events and a succession of brief, on-the-record phone interviews with journalists.
Makes me wonder what that 27% is smoking and even that 29%.
But I will say for once this number is less than the 30-something percent of true believers, maybe some cracks in the MAGA faithcism? One can hope that there is a line… I’d would’ve hoped the Epstein files would have been that but here we are.
I’d like to run a poll of as many Americans as could be managed, and ask them if we should maintain diplomatic relations with… and then list a series of real and fictional nations. I suspect we’d get something like 25 to 30% who think we should cut off diplomatic ties with Narnia, Wakanda, and Oz.
We could never break our ties with Narnia! They’re our strongest allies in the Magic Kingdoms!
Half of them are truly evil people who want to bomb and kill everything and the other half are people who can’t understand what’s going on because they literally can’t read. After I learned that the persistent 30% that has an objectively terrible opinion on everything started making a lot more sense. Long story short take the kids in your life to libraries and that might start to fix things
For context on how bad 27% approval is at the start:
For example, when Gallup asked Americans in 1965 whether it was a mistake to deploy U.S. troops to Vietnam, only 24 percent of respondents thought it was, while 61 percent said it was not.
It’s half as popular as Viet-goddamn-nam was at the start…
They’re not gonna be able to sell this. And it will deptess republican turnout in the midterms. I think trump was sold on getting a 9/11 type bump from being at war, but Cheney knew to let a domestic attack happen first.
Almost like we had one or two bs forever wars in the Middle East that are still firmly in the population’s memory or something.
I wonder what percentage of people think Trump raped a child and is actively covering it up?
Just means they haven’t marinated long enough in the propaganda.
