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senseandsensibility

(21,759 posts)
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 03:29 PM 13 hrs ago

What do these two things have in common?

As I've heard multiple talking heads say to Dem guests "it's not just republican reps who are facing angry constituents at townhalls. The Dems are getting a lot of angry feedback too."

There is a common denominator here, folks. The angry voters at the R townhalls and the angry voters at the D townhalls are NOT splitting their anger evenly among the parties. This is NOT another opportunity for corporate journalists to both sides the situation.

The voters at both R and D townhalls want the SAME THING. They want their reps to stand up to trump. So it's not the "own" you think it is to try to use this as a gotcha against Dems. It's a slam against trump no matter how you frame it, and another sign that he is historically unpopular.

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What do these two things have in common? (Original Post) senseandsensibility 13 hrs ago OP
Always giving in and not fighting for people Blue Full Moon 11 hrs ago #1
True. The "Both Sides" -ism of the corporate media is their default... Dem4life1970 11 hrs ago #2
Great point senseandsensibility JMCKUSICK 11 hrs ago #3
Thanks senseandsensibility 11 hrs ago #4
We were warned Iamscrewed 11 hrs ago #5
The poll that came out this morning MLWR 11 hrs ago #6
And Dem low favorability is because Hassler 10 hrs ago #7
Good point senseandsensibility 10 hrs ago #8
Republicans can actually stop Trump, Democrats can't. sop 10 hrs ago #9
That's why they're getting so much heat at their townhalls senseandsensibility 8 hrs ago #10

Dem4life1970

(805 posts)
2. True. The "Both Sides" -ism of the corporate media is their default...
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 05:23 PM
11 hrs ago

...and you are right. Both sides in the town halls want the same thing: reign in the Megalomaniac who thinks he is an absolute monarch.

Iamscrewed

(160 posts)
5. We were warned
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 05:44 PM
11 hrs ago

History is barking back at us. We were warned about exactly what is happening today by the founding fathers.

MLWR

(291 posts)
6. The poll that came out this morning
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 05:44 PM
11 hrs ago

gave Krasnov a 39% approval rating. "ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that Trump has the lowest 100-day approval rating of any president in the past 80 years, with only 39 percent of respondents saying they approve of Trump’s term thus far."

senseandsensibility

(21,759 posts)
8. Good point
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 06:11 PM
10 hrs ago

The Dems unfavourability is because of the progressives thinking that they're not resisting enough, not because more people are turning to the R's. Kind of like when Obamacare used to get bad ratings because all the R's were brainwashed to hate it, and the Dems thought it didn't go far enough. But those two groups together and you have a majority.

senseandsensibility

(21,759 posts)
10. That's why they're getting so much heat at their townhalls
Sun Apr 27, 2025, 08:38 PM
8 hrs ago

(when they show up) but the media has to try to present it as a both sides problem.

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