What The Left and The Global Peanut Gallery Are Missing is America’s Course-Correction Extends Far Beyond Trump

Manzanita MillerJanuary 30, 2025

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President Donald Trump is popular among just over half the country – with a recent YouGov poll showing 49 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the president while 48 percent have an unfavorable view. That said, support for the bedrock of Trump’s America First governing philosophy extends well beyond support for Trump himself.

Trump’s popularity is baffling to those on the left and to certain so-called global allies who are in shock over our decision to re-elect him. But what the global political apparatus really missed leading up to Trump’s second victory – and historic win of the popular vote – is just how popular Trump’s ideas are, far beyond his base, and far beyond how people feel about Trump himself.

In Trump’s first term, pundits would often claim that Americans didn’t know what they were voting for, or only elected Trump because of his “celebrity status”. There was an assumption among political elites that Americans were drawn to the “maverick-style” in which Trump presented himself, and that was it.

While Trump absolutely instigated a revolution among the politically disengaged with his common-sense approach to discussing issues, he was elected twice because of more than that.

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Americans are hungry for a return to early American values – which include putting our citizens first, maintaining a secure border, reducing our presence in overseas conflicts, and rethinking long-standing norms such as our reliance on cheap foreign labor and our dependence on foreign energy.

Polling even shows more Americans wish to return to more traditional social values, such as keeping men out of women’s sports and hormone-transition out of reach of children.

Trump was the figurehead who initially recognized and spoke on deeply destructive trends in American culture and business that needed to be changed, and he should be credited with bringing these issues to light and making it politically acceptable to discuss them.

But support for a return to America First principles extends far, far, beyond support for President Trump himself, and that should be chilling if you are on the left, and the hint of a new dawn if you are on the right.

A recent poll from the New York Times shows just how far support for Trump’s America First policies extend among the general public. It also reveals a majority of Americans share Trump’s view that the elites have used the political apparatus to serve themselves, not the people.

The poll also finds a strong populist sentiment among a majority of Americans, with well over half the country saying we should focus inward on domestic issues instead of taking a heavy-hand in global affairs.

According to the Times poll, Americans say by twenty-three points – 60 percent to 37 percent – that government is almost always wasteful and inefficient. This includes a startling number of Democrats – 45 percent – as well as 47 percent of independents and a full 78 percent of Republicans.

Almost three-quarters of Americans – 72 percent – agree that the government is mostly working to serve the elites, while only a quarter say the government is working to serve the people.

Over two-thirds of Democrats – 67 percent – and 61 percent of independents say the government mainly serves the elites not the people. Eighty percent of Republicans feel this way.

The poll shows a striking desire to draw back in global affairs and focus on domestic issues. Sixty percent of Americans say it is best to focus less on global affairs and concentrate on problems here at home, while 38 percent say it is best to be active in global affairs.

Once again, a striking number of Democrats – 47 percent – agree with the populist approach of focusing on domestic issues rather than taking a heavy-hand in global affairs. Fifty-eight percent of independents and a full 75 percent of Republicans favor the populist approach.

When it comes to tackling illegal immigration, the notion that a reversal of the destructive Open Borders agenda of the Biden Administration must be undone extends far beyond Trump’s base.

Two-thirds of Americans – 64 percent – say they strongly or somewhat support deporting all illegals who arrived during the four years Biden was president. Americans support mass deportation by forty percentage points – 64 percent to 24 percent.

Democrats oppose the deportation but only by eleven points, with 55 percent of Democrats saying they oppose deporting every illegal who arrived under Biden while 44 percent support doing so.

Independents support mass deportation by fourteen points, 38 percent to 24 percent, and Republicans support mass deportation by 75 points, 87 percent to 12 percent.

Even on thorny cultural issues, public support for the radical left’s gender ideology has plummeted, and Americans are embracing a rational, science-based approach to protecting women and children. The public says by 28 points – 49 percent to 21 percent – that society has gone too far in accommodating the trans agenda.

Americans say by a whopping sixty-one-point-margin – 79 percent to 18 percent – that transgender athletes should not be allowed to compete in women’s sports. By another sixty-one-point-margin Americans reject allowing puberty blockers to be given to children under eighteen – 71 percent to 10 percent.

President Trump will go down in the history books as one of the most pivotal figures of the 21^st century, and a president who steered the United States onto a very different path than the dark one it was headed down. But what the left and frankly the global peanut gallery is missing, is that American’s support for a limited government that is rational and responsive to its people goes far beyond Trump himself.

It is something Americans determined for themselves when they formed a country, and though that country has been nearly wrenched away from them multiple times by self-serving elites, those values of self-determination and a government that represents its people are deeply American.

Manzanita Miller is the senior political analyst at Americans for Limited Government Foundation.

Cross-posted with The Daily Torch

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