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I'm your host, Greg Sargent.

Three new national polls show that President Donald Trump's job approval is decidedly underwater.

Even more tellingly, however, the new polls show that majorities are rejecting Trump's authoritarian governing tactics.

And on top of that, Elon Musk, who's been tapped to carry out some of Trump's most autocratic

designs, fares even worse than Trump does in this polling.

Is it possible that we're finally seeing a real public backlash to Trump's authoritarianism,

the one that was supposed to materialize during the campaign, but didn't?

And if so, what does that mean for how

the Democratic opposition should proceed? We're talking about all this with one of our

favorite political scientists, Julia Azari, who has a good piece for her substack,

Good Politics, Bad Politics, about some of these questions. Julia, thanks for coming on.

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