U.S. Supreme Court takes sledgehammer to Federal regulatory structure

[cc333]

Honestly I think the scariest thing is not his politics but that enough people didn't see an issue with his attitude and immaturity and supported it. And got on social media and acted exactly the same way. That tells me a lot about the state of society.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Ever since the beginning of his first term, I've noticed a drastic increase of rudeness and intolerance in the general public that more or less mirrors his rudeness and intolerance. And this in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is almost universally hated. It only gets worse the farther into the rural central valley you go, except the target is flipped (they almost universally hate Democrats out there).

There's no middle ground anymore. Just two groups of people standing at opposite extremes, shouting angrily at each other about pretty much everything.

The fact that those two crowds aren't even the majority makes it even worse, because it feels like the majority of opinions are actively being ignored.

In other words, if the true majority had its way as it should, none of these idiots probably would've been elected in the first place, and life would be a whole lot better right now.

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[FreddyE1977]

The policies they're implementing, particularly with regards to the FCC and media, were laid out in Project 2025. The president continually disavowed any knowledge or acceptance of those policies.

Trump in debate again denies involvement in Project 2025

In Tuesday's ABC News presidential debate, former President Donald Trump said he had not read the playbook for the next conservative administration.

abcnews.com

After the election, he changed his tune. So the people got the classic bait & switch.

The typical Trump voter (most of them anyway) fully expected that he would do something like this and they supported him. You honestly didn't think that if he won he was going to allow the status-quo to continue, did you? You can pretty much tell at this point from the parties' ideological makeup what one or the other will do should they win.

 

[TheBigA]

The typical Trump voter (most of them anyway) fully expected that he would do something like this and they supported him. You honestly didn't think that if he won he was going to allow the status-quo to continue, did you?

Here's what a news poll at the time said:

'Nearly all' voters know about Project 2025 and majority have negative view of it: report

Project 2025 – the blueprint to install a far-right authoritarian government under the next Republican administration — is repulsive to most voters, according to a new survey.NBC News recently published the results of a poll it conducted earlier this month, and one part of that survey involved...

www.alternet.org

So according to this, nearly all voters were familiar with Project 2025, and more than half viewed it negatively. Which may explain why the president avoided it until after the election.

Notably, the plan still registered some unpopularity with respondents who identified as "MAGA Republicans," with 28% having a negative view of Project 2025.

Based on this it's hard to generalize about people based on party. I'm not sure you can predict what a politician will do based on party. Even now, we have a bunch of repubs who are no longer in lockstep with the administration. Mainly because they know it's not popular with their voters.

I think the issue with respect to the role of the FCC and TV networks isn't very supportive. To assume that 51% of the public approves government control of broadcasting just because they voted for the president is a big stretch. We know about 30% favored defunding CPB, and yet it got done. Now those congresspeople who voted to defund will have to face the voters.