Of 29 aspects of the country Gallup has tracked during Biden’s presidency, public satisfaction has declined in 12, while it has been steady in 12 and improved in five. As a result, in a reversal of the pattern seen before 2021, anemic (sub-33%) public satisfaction ratings of national conditions now outnumber strong (50%+) ones, and by a substantial margin.
That said, a lot of this is being driven by Republicans who are just throwing a temper tantrum because there’s a Democratic President, and a lot of this has to do with the fact that they’re comparing it to a survey that was taken right around and after January 6, so there were probably a lot of Dems in that survey who thought “wow, I’m so proud of my country for surviving that shit storm, now things are finally going to get better” and have since come down to the depressing reality that we’re still a really long way from neutralizing the threat Republicans pose to us.
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