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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

I'd like to see polling on this. Maybe I'm naive but I don't think a majority are against the U.S. helping children fight malaria in Africa via foreign aid.

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Avedee Eikew's avatar

Polling would probably say they are against foreign aid but in favor of specific programs. Easier to be against something in the abstract.

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Henrik's avatar

Exactly. Same with stuff like the DOE

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Mike in MD's avatar

True, though as stated it would be better to focus on things like chaos, incompetence, fucking with services people need, and "who elected Elon Musk?"

Jared Golden says that in his red district he's been inundated with communication from people complaining about Musk's unwarranted influence and messing with things, though there's honestly something self-delusional about Trump voters complaining only about Musk and not Trump. Musk didn't just pop out of nowhere after the election.

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Henrik's avatar

This Treasury debacle has certainly opened the door for that

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

Would a majority of people say they're in favor of abolishing USAID? I have doubts.

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Andrew's avatar

IтАЩm confident they would. Look how many of them voted for Trump.

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Toiler On the Sea's avatar

Issue polling shows voters don't particularly like MAGA positions outside of immigration and anti-woke/culture stuff.

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Andrew's avatar

Exactly.

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