That chart is from G. Elliott Morris who writes:
According to the polls, the only bill more unpopular than this year’s GOP budget bill is the 2017 Republican health care bill, which would have killed the funding mechanism for the Affordable Care Act, cut $800 billion from (basically eliminating) Medicaid, and slashed taxes on high earners.
The current GOP budget is even more unpopular than the 2008 bank bailout. That’s pretty terrible! And it’s far more unpopular than the Affordable Care Act, which only squeaked by Congress to become law in 2010.
Finally, note that the top three most unpopular legislative policies/policy proposals in the past 30 years have all been introduced by the Republican Party under a Trump presidency. The president’s core priorities are not designed for the average person, but for an intense base of supporters that constitutes a solid minority of Americans. This is despite Trump’s claim to be representing “the will of the people” and the typical archetype attached to Trump of a populist ruler looking out for the interests of the working class and “real America.” Trump may have won the popular vote, but that doesn’t mean what he’s doing is popular.
I would also point out that the most popular bills are ones that Trump and the Republicans plan to repeal or have already done so.
I think we should know by now that policies are not the driving force behind politics. (Trump would never have been elected if they were.) But the Republicans putting together something stupidly called the One Big Beautiful Bill (very easy to remember) and larding it up with tax cuts for the rich while cutting all kinds of vital programs to the bone has provided one Big Fat Target for the Democrats.
The front row at the Inauguration:
