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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
The right-wing agenda gets less popular the more voters learn about it, a new poll shows.
New polling out on Tuesday suggests that Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s best hope for Project 2025, the far-right policy agenda that at least 140 of his former administration officials helped craft, was that most Americans would remain unfamiliar with it.
Over the past month, though, a growing number of voters have learned more about the 900-page plan spearheaded by the right-wing Heritage Foundation—and public opinion of the agenda has plummeted as it’s become more widely known.
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Just 11% of people polled viewed the agenda favorably, while 43% had unfavorable views—a 24-point increase since June.
As is ever the case with conservative policies. As long as people know about them they don’t like them. That’s why they focus so hard so incredibly hard, and so incredibly successfully, on catchphrases and messaging. Because most people will settle for just a simple catch phrase, or a 10-word answer, and not look closer.
It’s why their main messaging is to attack their opponents rather than focus on the policies they would like to implement…