Given the current state of partisan polarization, it’s unlikely Biden can get majority job approval next year even with the most fortunate set of circumstances. But the good news for him is that he probably doesn’t have to. Job-approval ratings are crucial indicators in a normal presidential reelection cycle that is basically a referendum on the incumbent’s record. Assuming Trump is the Republican nominee, 2024 will not be a normal reelection cycle for three reasons.
I’m a single-issue voter. My single issue is “fuck the Republicans.”
I don’t like Biden. He’s a neoliberal stooge, the Democratic party is irredeemably infested with corporate-friendly neoliberal bootlickers, and they don’t spare a fuck for people who actually work for a living if they can afford it.
But the Republican party is basically the American Nazi party now, and they’ve been a coalition of fundies, fascists, and white supremacists since Eisenhower left office.
My choice is simple: I’d rather vote for a neoliberal than a neo-Nazi, knowing all the while that I’m voting for the lesser evil and that the lesser evil is still evil. Voting third party only helps the Republicans; it’s not like the Green Party are going to get their shit together and start winning local and state elections in my lifetime instead of just trying to get Jill Stein into the White House.
Russia stopped pushing Jill Stein quite so hard once they compromised the major parties (democrats by releasing their emails, republicans by using their email trove as kompromat.)
If we ever get rid of the Republicans, my single issue will become “fuck the Democrats”.
Presuming whatever party emerges from the ashes doesn’t manage to still be worse. Which… gestures vaguely at the kind of humanity that gains and keeps power
I’ve got hatred enough for every party of power junkies: Republicans, Democrats, and whatever succeeds them. It will outlive me and take on its own tenebrous life.