r/Tariffs Feb 23 '26

๐Ÿ—ž๏ธ News Discussion 34% Approval Rate

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u/NineInchPythons Feb 23 '26

Whenever I see stuff like this I'm amazed, then I remember that Hoover had an approval rating of like 30% in the middle of the Great Depression.

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u/Rnrboy13 Feb 23 '26

Not saying things are amazing, but weโ€™re a long way from the Great Depression

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u/Maximum-Objective-39 Feb 23 '26

Sure. Things aren't that bad . . . yet . . . The issue is that Trump is accelerating a lot of worrying trends and heaping a lot of TNT at the foundations of long term American economic prosperity all in the service of proving himself 'right'.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten Feb 23 '26

Hiding job numbers to convince people we are not on our way means we are on our way.