A recent Media Intelligence Group (MIG) report on public sentiment regarding the US economy reveals a nation split along partisan lines. Supporters praise the administration for allegedly reducing unemployment and achieving GDP growth. But critics blame Biden for rising inflation and interest rates that threaten the middle class.
One sentiment that crosses the political divide is that many people feel their financial situations are becoming strained in the current economy. The report highlights Americans worries about the impact of continuously climbing interest rates on mortgages and car loans.
Today auto loan defaults are surging, and mortgage rates hover around 7.5%. Households are struggling with the higher threshold for borrowing. Despite the administration touting positive economic indicators like a 4.9% GDP growth in Q3 2022, many of the voting population still express fear and uncertainty. MIG data shows that Joe Biden's approval rating dropped to a concerning 35% during the second week of October.
Biden critics point to inflation reducing real incomes and an accumulating public debt burden as indicators of economic mismanagement. But Biden supporters credit policies like the Inflation Reduction Act for spurring investment and job creation. In general, sentiment appears aligned with political affiliations but the overall sentiment towards the economy in 2023 is negative.
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Despite liberal claims that Trump supporters are beginning to regret their votes, MIG Reports data shows the President’s political standing has only crystallized. Public discourse about his leadership, both supportive and critical, shows an electorate no longer swayed by conventional markers of competence or decorum.
Americans are increasingly aligning around symbolism, cultural signaling, and ideological authenticity. While critics grow more alarmist, supporters have grown more loyal. Those who embrace Trump now do so more fervently as the administration enacts its agenda.
Conservatives Double Down
Getting What They Voted For
Those who may once have supported Trump pragmatically are growing to support him out of genuine enthusiasm. Before the 2024 election, support was strong but conditional—based on jobs, trade performance, and law-and-order promises. Today, that support has solidified with fast and decisive actions on all required fronts by Trump 2.0.
This sentiment persists even in the face of scandals like "SignalGate," which the media and Democrats cling to as an indictment of Trump’s Cabinet. However, instead of provoking alarm, many voters interpret the coverage as overblown distractions. Some even say it's strategic provocation by a desperate Democratic party which is losing public favor.
Cultural Disruption as Political Strength
Trump supporters increasingly value chaos as a cleansing force. SignalGate and similar controversies no longer carry reputational cost. Instead, they validate Trump’s outsider status and fuel distrust in legacy institutions.
The White House recently tweeted using a viral Studio Ghibli-style AI image of a drug dealer’s arrest, causing histrionics among liberals. Many on the right, however, say this further illustrates the shift in political aesthetics. Supporters appreciate the tongue-in-cheek style, viewing it as cultural savvy and understanding new media.
I guarantee you the people crying over this are the same people who wished for my death when I didn't get the covid shot. https://t.co/zmruw6JKlY
The symbolic style resonates with meme culture and a voter base which feels liberated from the self-serious rhetoric of the political left over the last decade. It reinforces an understanding that politics has fully collided with culture via the internet.
AHHH I VOTED FOR TRUMP IN EVERY ELECTION BUT I REGRET IT NOW BECAUSE THE WHITE HOUSE POSTED A GHIBLI MEME OF A FAT FENTANYL DEALER GETTING ARRESTED AHHH IM RETARDED pic.twitter.com/68Pqf5AgzB
Trump’s return to trade warfare also does not rattle his base. A 25% tariff on imported automobiles draws criticism across the aisle for its inflationary impact, but supporters say it equates to economic patriotism.
Critics note the price hikes on consumer goods, especially in agriculture and automotive sectors. Yet few among his core constituency are defecting. They see temporary pain as evidence of long-term strength—a stark departure from pre-2024, when economic metrics still held sway in voter behavior.
Liberal Vitriol Intensifies
From Critique to Alarmism
Trump’s critics have abandoned incremental critique. The rhetoric is existential. Commenters label him a fascist, a traitor, a Putin asset. Concerns over tariffs or cabinet qualifications have been supplanted by claims of democratic collapse.
Publicly, Democratic narratives insist that Trump voters are beginning to regret their votes. However, discussion among those same voters appears only to confirm their growing support.
Bulwark reporter “I'm hearing a lot of Trump voters saying "I didn't really vote for this."
Anyone hearing about Trump voter regret? Personally Im thrilled!
SignalGate is a particular point of focus for Democrats who hope to stir backlash against the administration. Critics point say unsecured military group chats are proof of systemic collapse and national endangerment. They call for resignations and accountability, pushing Trump voters to admit their mistake.
When Democrats tell you that MAGA has voter regret, they are lying. In fact Dem registration fell recently. People think we are headed in the right direction. pic.twitter.com/DcWz31gCHg
Democrats frame Trump’s leadership as autocratic. Commentary increasingly connects policy decisions to structural erosion—overuse of executive orders, loyal cabinet appointees over qualified ones, and overt defiance of institutional norms.
This framing extends to symbolic acts as well. Democrats condemn the Studio Ghibli-style tweet as trivializing systemic issues like drug trafficking and incarceration. Rather than seeing it as creative messaging, critics say it's a propagandistic ploy to bypass substantive debate.
Online discourse of reactions to the “judicial injection” that immediately reappeared with the second Trump administration are harsh. Rising fury toward the judiciary is the cumulative backlash of a post-2016 American consciousness that has endured endless investigations, selective prosecutions, judicial interventions in core executive functions, and a cascading erosion of institutional credibility.
Frustrated voters feel they are political survivors, navigating a managed decline wrapped in procedural legitimacy. Trust in the system has collapsed and patience has expired.
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Nayib Bukele said today: “If you don’t impeach the corrupt judges, you CANNOT fix the country. They will form a cartel (a judicial dictatorship) and block all reforms,… pic.twitter.com/6zsDrvTtgJ
65-70% of online discussion supports impeaching or removing federal judges—not as a targeted remedy, but as a systemic necessity.
Voters no longer speak in the restrained tones of legal reform. They are deploying the language of a reactionary public.
Phrases like “ELIMINATE federal judges” are common. Judges are depicted as ideological combatants embedded within the deep machinery of regime control.
This rhetoric uses metaphors of war, betrayal, and moral corruption. It positions the judiciary as an unelected aristocracy—radical, activist, and disconnected from the will of the people. Voters are ready for institutional exorcism. Their logic is cultural before it is constitutional.
Ignore the judge. Impeach the judge. Replace the judge.
30-35% of discourse pushes back against the swell of purge rhetoric.
Critics remain attached to the legacy model of constitutional governance, arguing that judicial independence is indispensable to the republic.
They speak the language of due process, checks and balances, and institutional restraint.
This group warns of the long-term costs of letting political passion dictate the fate of the courts.
Their rhetoric is grounded in procedural conservatism. They emphasize reform, not retribution. Their discourse is rooted in institutional incumbency and postures itself to be tempered but is increasingly drowned out.
Rhetoric of the Divide
The linguistic divergence between these camps demonstrates a drastic civil fracture. The pro-impeachment bloc communicates in imperatives and insults, emotional appeals and accusatory certainty. Their posts are charged, present-tense, and absolutist. Judges are becoming “traitors,” “tools of the deep state,” “radical left operatives.”
Those who oppose the purge adopt cautious grammar and legally grounded phrasing, emphasizing the status quo. They reference founding principles and hail precedent. But they are often ignored or mocked by the insurgent base.
From Legal Argument to Cultural Insurgency
The most telling aspect of the current discourse is not what is said, but what is assumed. Pro-impeachment voices do not engage in legal debate because, in their view, the judiciary has already abdicated legal legitimacy. The court has fallen to become a partisan stronghold. The demand for impeachment is for revenge and demolition.
For more than two centuries, there has never such extreme abuse of the legal system by activists pretending to be judges.
The call to impeach federal judges is a reckoning with an entire class of state actors viewed as illegitimate by a massive segment of the electorate. The judiciary, in this view, is not acting as a co-equal branch, but has become a final barricade to national renewal.
Through this lens, the judges are no longer guardians of the law. They are guardians of a dying order—one which many say must fall.
A wave of online outrage is swelling in response to targeted attacks and vandalism against Tesla vehicles and dealerships. These incidents are causing debate about national political conflict and what Elon Musk represents in the American imagination. Within this discourse, Tesla is stand-in for the ideological battle between the left and the right. Many Americans see vandalism against associates or supporters of Trump as an assault on values, identity, and a fragile vision of national renewal.
Just wanted to say thank you to everyone supporting Tesla in the face of relentless attacks.
A significant 80-85% of online commentary condemns the vandalism in forceful, often emotionally charged terms. But there is isn't the typical language of property crime outrage—it’s the rhetoric of cultural defense.
Tesla, and by extension Musk, are cast as symbols of American ingenuity, lawfulness, and resistance to institutional decay. Calls to “wake up” and “defend what’s ours” are common, underscoring a tone of existential threat. Many on the right interpret the attacks as part of a deliberate campaign by “enemies within” and overzealous and, at times deranged, political activists.
Some suggest Trump Derangement Syndrome—and now Elon Derangement Syndrome—are causing many politically radicalized voters to lash out emotionally. This, conservatives say, is both a product of emotional manipulation on the political left and media propaganda.
The Musk Effect: Entrepreneur as Political Archetype
In broader Musk discourse, his reforms gutting DEI programs and efforts to digitize government oversight through DOGE are seen by supporters as acts of salvation and by critics as technocratic overreach. The Teslas thus becomes, in the minds of many, symbolic blowback from the forces Musk is challenging. Musk has become a cipher for political reform, cultural resistance, and civilizational friction.
Rejecting Violence, Embracing Narrative
Even among the conspiratorial fringes—those who use hyperbolic language about government sabotage or economic war—there is virtually no support for the acts themselves. Less than 5% of comments showed any approval of vandalism. Instead, anger at the attacks is used to fuel a broader grievance narrative that Musk, and by extension America’s spirit of innovation, is under siege from a ruling order that fears disruption and punishes independence.
Some on the right, however, say the Democratic politicians and media figures are winking and nodding at the violence. They give examples like that of Tim Walz celebrating Tesla stock falling as evidence that Democrats are unwilling to give a full-throated condemnation of the vandalism.
Where Politics, Economy, and Culture Intersect
This rhetorical posture—defensive, almost martyr-like—exposes an emerging consensus that the future is being hijacked by legacy institutions. Many see symbols like Musk and Tesla as the last redoubts of autonomy and excellence.
Economic and cultural points intermingle throughout the discourse. About 25% of voters reference mismanagement of taxpayer money or systemic inefficiencies, juxtaposing Tesla’s lean, innovative business model with the bloated government voters want to displace. A minority frame the attacks in explicitly cultural terms—linking them to declines in patriotism or even the marginalization of specific demographic identities.
Not Just a Car: A Battleground for National Direction
Tesla vandalism discourse doesn't depart from the broader Musk phenomenon—it intensifies it. The violent targeting of a vehicle becomes a referendum on the legitimacy of reform, the fragility of free enterprise, and the future of American governance.
Supporters see a keyed Tesla and infer not just criminality, but ideological warfare. Critics may view this as melodrama, but the emotional pitch is revealing. It tells us that the Musk discourse is no longer about what he’s doing—but what he has come to represent.
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