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Summary: Republicans are 50/50, everyone else is strongly opposed.

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[–] Windex007@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Alternative perspective, for what it's worth:

50/50 is actually comparatively huge. Considering everything else has been 90/10.

The first departure from your god-king is always the hardest. I expect for many, this is the first break, and will make any subsequent break mentally easier.

Also keep in mind that people who identify/lean Republican has taken a little more than a 10% haircut since January 2025. Any "republicans say" is an increasingly smaller subset of the total voting population... getting more concentratedly nuts as they boil off the more rational ones. Even with this more concentrated version of Republicans, it's STILL not popular.

Don't get me wrong, it's not GREAT... but there is a trend line. It's not moving as fast as it should, but it IS moving.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

i dont see that trend, they are all in it or not. its a zero sum for them. "all the rational ones are likely remaining quiet while still supporting maga on the issue or in the maga-sphere already."