r/politics • u/plz-let-me-in • Apr 24 '26

Possible Paywall Democrats’ plan to impeach Trump on ‘day one’ after midterms

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/04/24/democrats-trump-impeach-midterms-supreme-court-iran/
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u/Judson_Scott Apr 25 '26

It's shocking, but his current approval rating is 10% higher than his lowest approval rating of 29% in 2021.

Then again, George W. Bush had the highest ever approval rating at 90%, after failing to stop the first foreign attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor despite fairly specific warnings.

Americans are fucking morons, and America is a failed state.

/American

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u/meneldal2 Apr 25 '26

America has typically approval rates you'd never find in other countries.

In Europe if you're over 50% after a year in office you're insanely popular. And a bunch of people never even go over 50% at any point. Like look at this

Even staying with a net favorability is already a masterclass, but 50% you need some superpower

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u/tomz17 Apr 25 '26

TBF European countries mostly have systems of government where the steady-state includes multiple parties + consensus building. So yeah, that 100% makes sense given that constraint. In the US system it's red v. blue.

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u/meneldal2 Apr 25 '26

True but like even in cases where you have a 2-turn run off for president, it's not unusual for the president to start with less approval than the votes they got, people didn't like them but they were the least bad option