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→ America’s political polarisation deepens
Americans are sharply divided along partisan lines on nearly every issue, according to new polling from Pew. Among supporters of Kamala Harris, 60% believe one’s sex can be different from the sex assigned at birth, compared to only 7% of Donald Trump supporters. Meanwhile, 80% of Harris supporters reportedly believe slavery still has a significant impact on African Americans, while only 24% of Trump fans agree.
Those planning to vote for Trump are about five times as likely to believe gun ownership makes people more safe and twice as likely to believe the criminal justice system is too soft on criminals, yet are almost three times less likely to feel that openness to people from all over the world is core to America’s identity.
Some of the widest gaps between Harris and Trump supporters are on issues that have divided Americans for decades, such as the role of guns in society, race and the legacy of slavery. https://t.co/VkqWALh28d pic.twitter.com/AswUsPhqQN
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) August 26, 2024
The only policy upon which Americans seem to agree is that the country should continue to bankrupt itself through cash payments to Baby Boomers. Harris and Trump supporters, at 83 and 77% respectively, agree that Social Security should not be reduced in any way. Good that there are still some bipartisan issues…
→ Four in 10 Tory members support Reform merger
Things have been quiet over at CCHQ as the Conservative Party licks its wounds post-election. But that doesn’t mean pollsters aren’t busy asking Tory members what they make of the party’s future.
A hypothetical merger of the Conservatives and Reform UK divides the Tory membership, four in ten supportive and half opposed
% of Conservative members…
Support: 42%
Oppose: 51%https://t.co/wf7ngLd47o pic.twitter.com/7n37XsfTr9— YouGov (@YouGov) August 27, 2024
A new poll from YouGov suggests that 42% of Tory members would support a merger with rival party Reform UK, while 51% would oppose. Despite this idea being dismissed by all Tory leadership candidates, there seems to be significant support for it. A reason for this might be that 51% think the future leader should move the party to the Right, according to the YouGov polling. Only 12% believe the party should stay where it is, and 34% want to move to the centre. Time will tell whether leadership hopeful Tom Tugendhat’s trip to Clacton will win back any voters…
→ Former Bernie Bros come out for Trump
Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, after both endorsing Donald Trump in recent days, have been named honorary co-chairs of the former president’s transition team.
Trump apparently no longer views his former opponent RFK Jr as a “Radical Left Lunatic”, and hopes to scoop up the former independent candidate’s supporters. Likewise, the Kennedy heir evidently no longer considers Trump a “threat to democracy”, and Gabbard’s 2019 push to censure the then-President is water under the bridge. In a remarkable turnaround, the two former Democrats, both erstwhile Bernie Sanders fans, will now advise Trump on policy and hiring decisions in a potential second term.
The two progressives have found themselves increasingly aligned with the Republican candidate in recent years. RFK Jr built a new audience as vaccine scepticism became more of a Right-of-centre issue around 2020, and Gabbard has been shifting Right since her 2020 Democratic primary campaign ended. Horseshoe theory proven true once again…
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SubscribeThe concept of a Tory/Reform ‘merger’ is fanciful garbage and would only reduce their credibility even further. What is needed is to listen to some of the Reform policies and trajectory.
Shooting fish in a barrel here but yeah social security should continue, why not ? Who is against free money ? Arrarently 17% of democrats and 23% of boomers apparently. Id like to talk to that lot.
The problem is that half the population are either Cultural Marxists or their useful idiots. (Woke, DEI, ESG, Transgender activists, BLM).
The great majority of these have no clue about either economics (where inflation comes from) or the critical importance of the Constitution and related institutions (Supreme Court, Electoral College) in preserving our Republic. (They call it “Our Democracy,” and have no idea what the difference is.)
The other half is simply trying to preserve our Constitutional Republic and stem the chaos of Woke Marxism.
sure pal, you have a strong “understanding” of Economics. You want to save the republic except when it disagrees with you.
everything is woke and everyone is dumb and yet I don’t see you making millions
When is Bernie Saunders coming out for Trump. He has been done down often enough by the Democratic establishment often enough? Trump is clearly in favour of a big tent party judging by his taking Kennedy and Gabbard on board.
Trump would take literally anybody who he thought would help his cratering campaign.
These two wingnuts only serve to prove how crazy you have to be to support Trump.