Summary
A new Economist/YouGov poll shows Americans favor many government programs over Elon Musk and his DOGE, which is working to slash federal spending.
The CFPB (50% approval), EPA (61%), and USAID (46%) were all viewed more positively than DOGE (42%).
Even the IRS’s free tax-filing program received strong support (63%). Musk himself had a 42% favorable and 52% unfavorable rating.
The findings show that government programs remain widely valued by the public.
2024: Us: They’re going to do Project 2025! Them: What? Us: Project 2025! Them: What’s that? Us: Here! thump Them: tl:dr lol. Us: sigh. makes simple charts Them: Oh, he’d never do that! Him: I don’t know what you’re talking about! Them: See! You people are always taking things out of context and over-reacting! Us: Is it worth the risk? Them: Fucking libtard doomscrollers, tryin’ to let everyone have things for free. votes [R]
2025: Them: Oh. … Oh! … Wait, no!
the number of republican voters i encountered after the election who weren’t worried about project 2025 because they were going to vote against it in 2025…
That - that interpretation never even occurred to me …
The average republican voter (and American voter, regardless of party preference, really) doesn’t actually understand how our government works. They think they vote November 2-8th, and the new government takes office as soon as the television declares a winner. And this includes people who participated in the January 6th insurrection. Some people who were there did not understand that what was really going on was an attempt to disrupt the certification of the electoral college ballots. They thought they were preventing a hostile government takeover (ironic). This is how powerful propaganda can be. It can inflame people who only kind of know what’s going on into thinking they’re experts. It tricks the sleeping into thinking they are away