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by mr_00ff00 523 days ago
Will admit, this is a big PR win for him if it works.

Especially since a lot of young voters / voters in general don’t see much of the impact of the president.

Him doing something popular that the average person can see seems like a huge win.

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More people support the TikTok ban than oppose it:

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/01/17/americans-banning-tik...

> According to Rasmussen’s Napolitan News Service survey released Friday

Rasmussen consistently gets ranked as one of the least reliable major pollsters, and has a heavy conservative bias. I would take that with a whole salt crystal.

People who want something they don't use or directly effected from be banned are not the same as the people who use the thing and getting directly affected.

People who loose stuff will feel much much strongly that those who on political or intellectual level support the ban. The later will move on, the former will remember.

They will forget about the ban in a week...tops.
Wow that actually surprises me. Social media had me thinking it was very one sided.
He can even appear like fighting the anti-freedom establishment that tries to take away something they like and make people believe that any other legal troubles he might have later be of political nature.