Americans oppose most Trump policies
By: Philip Bump National (Washington Post)
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After he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump applied a rather scattershot approach to his efforts to effect his promised policy changes. This was in part a function of the resistance some efforts faced from Congress (like repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare) or from the courts (like his ban on immigration from Muslim countries) and in part because they weren't practical in the first place (having Mexico pay for a wall on the border).
Were he to win election again this year, those factors are likely to still be in play. Yes, he knows better how government works and would probably be less concerned about having more ambitious efforts challenged in court, but Congress will still be narrowly divided, and bad ideas are still bad ideas.
That said, though, some of what Trump has said he'd enforce should he win a second term is likely to end up being attempted. New polling from YouGov, shared exclusively with The Washington Post, indicates that most Americans won't be very happy when they are. On 30 policy ideas presented to a national pool of respondents, 22 saw a majority oppose the idea. Only four had majority approval.
Among those four are two centered on transgender Americans. The policy that fared best, with 57 percent of adults offering at least some support, was banning hormonal or surgical treatments for transgender minors. The third most popular policy was Trump's proposal to legally limit the number of recognized genders in the United States.
The other two that received majority support were related to immigration. One, reflecting other recent YouGov polling, indicated majority support for the policy known as "remain in Mexico." The other saw a narrow majority of Americans express support for deporting thousands of immigrants in the country illegally.
That was it. While a majority of Republicans generally supported the other proposals — and a majority of those who said they planned to support Trump in the Republican primary backed all but four, no other policies saw the support of a majority of respondents.
After he was elected president in 2016, Donald Trump applied a rather scattershot approach to his efforts to effect his promised policy changes. This was in part a function of the resistance some efforts faced from Congress (like repealing the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare) or from the courts (like his ban on immigration from Muslim countries) and in part because they weren’t practical in the first place (having Mexico pay for a wall on the border).
Were he to win election again this year, those factors are likely to still be in play. Yes, he knows better how government works and would probably be less concerned about having more ambitious efforts challenged in court, but Congress will still be narrowly divided, and bad ideas are still bad ideas.
That said, though, some of what Trump has said he’d enforce should he win a second term is likely to end up being attempted. New polling from YouGov , shared exclusively with The Washington Post, indicates that most Americans won’t be very happy when they are. On 30 policy ideas presented to a national pool of respondents, 22 saw a majority oppose the idea. Only four had majority approval.
Among those four are two centered on transgender Americans. The policy that fared best, with 57 percent of adults offering at least some support, was banning hormonal or surgical treatments for transgender minors. The third most popular policy was Trump’s proposal to legally limit the number of recognized genders in the United States.
The other two that received majority support were related to immigration. One, reflecting other recent YouGov polling , indicated majority support for the policy known as “remain in Mexico.” The other saw a narrow majority of Americans express support for deporting thousands of immigrants in the country illegally.
The four policies opposed by Trump's supporters had their own themes.
Only 46 percent supported Trump's plan to make it easier to fire career government employees, which is somewhat surprising. (Only a fifth of respondents overall supported that idea.) About 20 percent of Trump's primary supporters backed his plan to put independent government agencies like the Federal Trade Commission under the presidential umbrella. (That's in part because a large chunk of respondents had no opinion on this esoteric question.)
The other two centered on law enforcement. Just under half of Trump supporters offered their endorsement of a proposal to send American troops into Mexico to engage drug cartels. Only 4 in 10 backed the idea that some federal funding should be dependent on local police forces implementing a stop-and-frisk policy.
The proposals where the partisan gap was the widest, incidentally, were on proposals that have been the subject of political and cultural fights in the past several years. At the top of the list: building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border. That was followed by a ban on teaching critical race theory, mass deportations, expanding oil drilling and the two questions centered on transgender Americans.
Should Trump win, some of these ideas will become actual proposed policies. Some may even be enacted, if only after some judicial trimming.
Nearly all of them are broadly unpopular.
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We have often heard that we need Trump because his policies and proposals were so great for America, but as we can see, that is a usually a minority opinion. So why do we need a crooked criminal leading this country ?
Of the 30 policy proposals, 10 of them are opposed by even Republicans.
Putting an end to automatic citizenship is the most important.
OMG...You mean people aren't going to remember the major policies he enacted as President? According to this opinion piece, people are treating him like a first-time candidate only considering his new ideas.
If it comes down to what Trump did vs what Biden did, Trump wins.
Its not an opinion piece. It is a report on a survey by You Gov. com
You dont seem to understand that the majority of Americans are not MAGA.
Nor is the majority radical leftist fanatics who want to destroy "democracy" in the name of saving it!
Which leftists attempted to overturn an election?
What do you call these court cases?
"Which leftists attempted to overturn an election?"
Most of them in 2016....when Trump was elected the first time. There were even calls for hisimpeachment even before he was sworn in. Then came the Trump-Biden collusion hoax.
(5) Trump lawyer plays montage of Democrats objecting to 2016 election at Trump impeachment trial - YouTube
At the end of the court cases, trump will still have lost the 2020 election.
The 2016 election was clearly rigged, trump said so many times.
Huh ?
You have a very strange concept of legal versus illegal actions.
The GA, classified docs, and Jan 6 cases are exactly how our system should work.
The radical right fanatics will accept any policy from trump no matter how retarded it is.
It's the economy, stupid! ~James Carville
The vast majority of Americans are more concerned with having enough resources to survive economically in these days of Bidenflation. Groceries and gas have moderated a bit, but inflation is not going away. Most people don't have the time or energy to deal with non essential issues
Inflation ticks back up as housing prices stay stubbornly high (msn.com)
Ultimately I think the majority of the Trump base are focused on illegal immigration. They also seem to have the delusion that Trump will magically make their personal finances improve (substantially).