In Reply to: 50 years ago Phil Ochs passed posted by mh on April 05, 2026 at 17:05:09
Finally, what really stands out about Trump’s trajectory is not just how low his approval is. It’s that it basically never bounces, either. Over 14 months, there hasn’t been a single sustained recovery in his overall approval rating. He got no rally from the Iran conflict, despite what history would suggest about the intervention, and no meaningful bounce from any of his legislative wins. Even the apparent “plateau” over the summer wasn’t really a rebound; it was just a slower decline.
Most presidents get at least some back-and-forth in their numbers. They lose support, then win some of it back after a successful policy fight or a crisis that pulls the country together. Trump hasn’t had that. His line only really moves in one direction.
This is to be expected from a president who has pushed the most unpopular policy agenda of all time. And if that pattern holds — and right now there’s not much evidence that it won’t — Trump will head into the 2026 midterms as the most unpopular president in modern polling history.