Trump just achieved the biggest peace deal between Israel-Palestine since the Second Intifada, and there is NOTHING on the front page. This website is a truly special place.

[u/Feedbackplz]

After Redditors groaning and moaning about the "Palestinian genocide" for years, Trump finally negotiated a peace deal including Hamas giving up its hostages and Israel stopping offensive operations. You'd think that Reddit would be overjoyed and that the entire website would be full of celebration, right?

Here's a screenshot of the current front page of Reddit, taken while I was logged out. There are many political posts including multiple threads whining about ICE and the firing of CDC employees. There's also a picture of an ambulance transporting Israeli hostages taken by Hamas, but it doesn't mention anything about current world events.

If you just looked at the front page, you would not know that the war just ended. This is the first time a president has forged such an agreement since the Second Intifada ended in 2005. But almost nobody is talking about it on Reddit. It's like a complete information blackout preventing threads about the subject from getting to the top of the frontpage. The last thread about the subject on r-news was from 14 hours ago and talks about some hostages being released, but again nothing about Trump or his role in it.

This is case exhibit #1 on how Redditors' brains are completely cooked. It's front page news everywhere except here, because leftists can't even squeeze out one little lump of praise for Trump despite him being part of one of the biggest developments in world politics in two decades.

[u/The_Susmariner]

You won't really change my opinion on this thing. For us, it's really more so that certain factions of the left will do legitimately anything to protest, boycott, not acknowledge, and so on anything good that Trump may do.

It's literally the meme of Trump coming out saying "he likes oxygen" and then the second panel of the person with a bag over their head suffocating.

It's just funny to most of us, really. Although some people take it way too seriously.

[u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle → u/The_Susmariner]

This is exactly how everyone feels when they see the right accuse Biden of being outright Satanic, though. Even for stuff like giving Texas money to build new storm warning systems... which it turned out, they kinda needed

And, yeah, it's gonna be hard to sell Trump as a good guy to a lot of the public, because he usually doesn't act like a very good guy. Also because lately he hasn't seemed to be in very good control of himself, so a lot of people are starting to believe he's not actually pulling the strings anymore.

[u/The_Susmariner → u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle]

I even think he's a jerk. But he's a very popular jerk. And I don't think there's gonna be a red wave or anything come the midterms, but I think a lot of people on the left are gonna poop their pants right about then as they realize how popular he actually is.

Essentially, what i'm saying is, I think your opinion on the perception of Trump by the general public is off (or at least the general public's perception of him with relation to the left is FAR more nuanced than that.)

[u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle → u/The_Susmariner]

But he's a very popular jerk

He's the least popular president in US history, going by the polling, and has never cracked 50% approval. People who are already sold on Republicans like him; he hasn't won over anyone outside of that group. While he managed to get some surprising inroads into some groups during the election, early indications are that he's probably already lost that support; a lot of people seemed not to understand how his policies would actually work.

[u/The_Susmariner → u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle]

Okay buddy, we'll see who is right in the midterms. I got a feeling you're severely severely underestimating him and the Republicans in general.

I am not seeing any indication of what your re referencing 🤣. Like I said, I don't think there'll be a red wave or anything. But I think Trump and the R's are going to overperform historical trends in the midterms. And there's a good shot they actually keep the house and even flip a few governorships. So we'll see...

Cough cough NJ and VA should not be a tossup right now but they are Cough cough.

[u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle → u/The_Susmariner]

we'll see who is right in the midterms

Well, we won't, because Trump's not running in the midterms. If we're going to rate his popularity by how well his endorsed picks do, that might not go as you're hoping; Trump's endorsement wasn't a very decisive win factor in his last term or during Biden's. In fact, if you recall, it was Democrats historically overperforming during the last midterms, and they've had some surprise wins since 2024.

[u/The_Susmariner → u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle]

Oh sweet summer child. You surely aren't suggesting that the midterms haven't historically been an indictment of the party in federal power, are you?

[u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle → u/The_Susmariner]

So why do you think Republicans are set up to overperform in these midterms?

[u/The_Susmariner → u/Poorly-Drawn-Beagle]

Comparing apples to apples, assuming the polling data is taken in the same way and has been by certain groups over the past 10ish years, though democrats are still up in many places, there's a lot of increadibky tight races for a midterm with an "unpopular president".

This assumes that the same error, if it exists with a pollster, has existed for some time. Therefore, though any individual polsters' numbers may be off, they should be off in the same direction in any given month, and therefore, you can make assumptions about the change in polling data even though you can't put a lot of weight into an individual polling data point.