Donald Trump is not as popular as everyone thinks
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On Super Tuesday, the former president lost the state of Vermont and more than 2 million votes to Nikki Haley.

Despite resounding victories on Super Tuesday, there are indications that Donald Trump is still struggling to get strong, united Republican support, which he may need in the presidential election.

Speaking to CNN about the Super Tuesday results, columnist and political commentator Molly Jong-Fast said: "There is a real ‘Never Trump’ contingent, and remember, Trump is a primary candidate. He has only ever tried to appeal to Republican primary voters, and he cannot marshal that group together the way he needs to.

“Part of his trick in 2016 was, he got these low-frequency voters out, these people who almost never voted, which is why the polling was so off, and you’re just not seeing that same type of enthusiasm.”

  • vividspecter@lemm.ee
    7·
    8 months ago

    I sure hope this is right. We are at a critical moment in terms of climate change action, and he plans to dismantle the IRA, probably the most substantial piece of climate change legislation in the Western world.

      • vividspecter@lemm.ee
        5·
        8 months ago

        Inflation Reduction Act. Basically, a large amount of money is being put into renewable energy and the like (along with a number of other policies).

        • mommykink@lemmy.world
          45·
          8 months ago

          Basically, a large amount of money public funds is being put into renewable energy and the like the private hands of the 1%.

          FTFY. Government subsidies for private enterprise has no business existing in the 21st century. Why don’t we nationalize all these industries, cut out the middlemen, and get a better ROI? Oh yeah, it’s because these bills are written by lobbyists for big corpo who want to make sure they get their piece of the tax dollar pie.

          Not that I think Trump would do anything better, but the IRA falls just behind Trump’s PPP as the most corrupt, best-ambitioned, acts.

          • KevonLooney@lemm.eeOP
            22·
            8 months ago

            The act that funds the IRS to go after tax cheats is corrupt? And you think nationalized industries are not corrupt?

            • mommykink@lemmy.world
              22·
              8 months ago

              Poor people are audited at a rate of 5x more often than the rich and that trend hasn’t changed in the 2 years since the IRA was passed. The problems with the IRS aren’t from funding, they’re systemic, and the system is working exactly as intended. The IRS needs a complete defunding and rebuilding, but the idea that anything will improve for the average person with a better-funded IRS would be hilarious if not for the fact that so many people believe it.

              Less corrupt than private corporations and lobbyists? Of course. Take a look at something like the Roosevelt-era WPA to see what a properly-administered infrastructure project is supposed to be like, versus the lowest-bidder, private subsidies, inefficient system we have now.

                • mommykink@lemmy.world
                  21·
                  8 months ago

                  Absolutely no source given.

                  Meanwhile:

                  a ProPublica analysis found that someone making $20,000 a year was far more likely to be audited than a person making $400,000.

                  Source

                  …low-income households with less than $25,000 in annual earnings.  This group is five times as likely to be audited by the IRS as everyone else, according to a new analysis of IRS data by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University.

                  Source

                  Both articles written within the past two years.

                  The US needs a massive tax law overhaul before any further funding for the IRS will benefit the average citizen.

                  • AA5B@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    8 months ago

                    They’re cherry-picking the numbers, comparing the lowest income demographic against the lowest audit rate demographic. The lowest audit rate demographic includes most taxpayers, starting at very low income. That a look at this chart clearly showing that wealthy are audited at a much higher rate

                    Also your own source says most of those EITC audits are “correspondence”. I’ve been through one: IRS sent mail saying they think I made a mistake and showed the correct value. I said “oops”, and returned the correction. Nothing to it. This is not the big scary audit people are afraid of