Even If The Polls Are Accurate, I Don’t Care.

The country has been suffering for decades economically, culturally and politically — and the propaganda press wants you to care about approval ratings. As President Donald Trump marks his first 100 days in office, headlines scream about “record-low” poll numbers. But here’s the thing: polls don’t fix nations — leaders do.

The same media that tried to convince us seven months ago that then-Vice President Kamala Harris had a legitimate chance to take Iowa could very well be running yet another psyop — bad polling — to malign Trump and stain his legacy. But let’s just pretend, for argument’s sake, that the propaganda press’ polling is accurate.

To borrow a line from Vice President JD Vance: “I don’t care, Margaret” — because I want my country back.

Even if what Trump is doing is “unpopular,” it’s necessary. Only a real leader can decipher the difference between what’s easy and what’s essential –and choose the hard path, even when it costs him politically.

A joint ABC News/Washington Post poll conducted by the left-leaning pollster Ipsos says Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 39 percent.

“The previous low in approval for a president at or near 100 days in office, in polls dating to 1945, was Trump’s 42 [percent] in 2017,” ABC’s Gary Langer reported. As my colleague Beth Brelje pointed out, “it is hard to trust ABC’s Trump coverage after its biased moderation against Trump in the 2024 presidential debates, or after the $15 million defamation settlement ABC agreed to pay Trump.”

Still, Langer reports that Americans “disapprove of Trump’s performance on six of seven issues tested…” including “stock market volatility, tariffs, foreign relations and the economy overall.”

Langer adds that 53% of Americans polled “said they disapprove of [Trump’s] handling of immigration.”

A CNN poll conducted by SSRS Research found Trump’s approval is 41 percent while a New York Times/Siena College poll found Trump’s approval rating has fallen to 42 percent.

Fixing the country won’t be painless. There’s no clean, easy way to undo decades of bipartisan failure. If we’re serious about saving America, we need a leader who’s willing to be hated by the pundits, pollsters, and even some short-term-minded Americans to do what’s right. These polls may very well be designed to put pressure on Trump to change course so that Washington D.C. and coastal elites can go back to the status quo — but Trump and the rest of America need not pay any mind to the “data.”

Take tariffs, for example. The polls claim to show Americans disapprove of Trump’s use of tariffs to cudgel other nations into engaging in fair trade practices and require Mexico and Canada to control their borders to stem the flow of illegal aliens and fentanyl. The propaganda press, those on the left, and even some faux-conservatives clutched their pearls at news of the tariffs and spread the message that tariffs will drive up costs and therefore Trump should not implement them (notably, the legacy media and the left were silent as Americans were crushed by record high inflation under the Biden administration).

The coverage of tariffs was a calculated tactic to gaslight Americans into believing they must choose between national sovereignty and low prices, access to cheap-Chinese-made goods or the longevity of our economy and domestic industries.

It was a false dichotomy.

Just because previous administrations were willing to relinquish our sovereignty and sell out blue-collar America in exchange for cheap goods and friendly handshakes with “leaders” on our southern and northern border doesn’t mean Trump should follow their failed policies. Trump wasn’t elected to protect the comfort of the global investor class — he was elected to restore American strength, even if that means rattling markets or bruising diplomatic relations.

But the propaganda press couldn’t accept that, so they twisted the coverage, warped pubic perception, and now fallback on that warped public perception as the basis for the polling.

According to CNN’s Jennifer Agiesta and Ariel Edwards-Levy, Trump’s “far-reaching efforts to reshape the federal government’s workforce” has also landed him in hot water with Americans, whose approved for managing the federal government has fallen.

Of course they have — because dismantling the entrenched, unaccountable bureaucratic state doesn’t poll well with the very institutions that benefit from it. The administrative state isn’t just ineffective, it’s un-American. It’s the fourth branch of government that nobody elected. It writes rules, enforces them, and punishes dissenters.

This isn’t governance — it’s a modern oligarchy. And Trump is the only one with the guts to storm the castle.

And perhaps the most important issue of them all: immigration.

Agiesta and Edwards-Levy report a “declining approval rating[s] and diminished confidence in Trump’s actions” when it comes to immigration.

This is no accident. The propaganda press has spent decades romanticizing illegal immigration while vilifying those who oppose it. They’ve referred to the illegal alien with gang affiliations as merely a “Maryland father” who was “mistakenly” deported. They’ve insisted that said illegal alien deserves “due process” — a political smokescreen designed to preserve the dividends of mass illegal immigration by delaying deportations indefinitely and draining public resources.

All of the coverage is designed to sabotage Trump’s lawful deportation effort and delegitimize it so that the American people sour on the efforts. And apparently, at least if you believe the polls, it’s working.

But once again, I don’t care and neither should you.

Mass migration (both legal and illegal) is a cultural wrecking ball, but let’s focus on illegal immigration for now.

America is not an empty vessel into which the world can pour itself. It’s a country built on shared principles, language, traditions, and a way of life. When you allow millions to enter en masse without enforcing assimilation, you turn America into a patchwork of unassimilated foreign enclaves. But assimilation is required for the preservation of the nation. Alexander Hamilton said as much in 1802:

“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common National sentiment; on a uniformity of principles and habits; on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias, and prejudice; and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”

If we allow mass migration without the strict requirement for complete and total assimilation, we lose America.

The toughest problems this country faces cannot be solved with a smile, a handshake, and a high approval rating. They require grit, sacrifice, and a willingness to endure the slings and arrows of the media elite and their oh-so-“accurate” polling.

Trump isn’t chasing headlines. He’s not bending to pollsters. He’s doing exactly what needs to be done — even if it’s unpopular in the short term — because the long-term survival of this country depends on it.

Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2