Scott Rasmussen still does polling, even though he left Rasmussen Reports and now runs RMG Research. One of his big loves is working for The Napolitan Institute, which he founded to do deep dives into Americans’ real attitudes rather than the ones revealed by the flawed and often motivated polling done today.
His goal is to “amplify the voice of the American people,” rather than just gather data for politicians so they can more easily manipulate people for votes or to change their attitudes through framing issues.
It does interesting work, with a more populist tinge, based on what seems to me to be a deep skepticism about the direction our politics have taken in recent years.
Obviously, as part of that work his polling dives deep into the attitudes of various groups, as well as the larger trends in the larger population, and his most recent polling shows something quite interesting, disturbing, and unfortunately unsurprising.
Progressives who prefer policies like those of @AOC have a more favorable opinion of France (81%), the UK (79%), and Germany (67%) than they do of the US (57%). https://t.co/cX2yQT8tI1
— Scott Rasmussen (@ScottWRasmussen) June 3, 2026
Voters on the left wing of the Democratic Party are not that fond of America, and, as I often argue, have attitudes far more akin to Europeans than most Americans. France is more their cup of tea, which is pretty amusing, since the French are having enormous political and economic problems, and are now seen as the sick man of Europe.
Unsurprisingly, they also view the UK quite favorably, as the country is riven by massive differences between the political elite and ordinary Britons. They view Germany less favorably but still favor it more than the United States.
Democrats only have any sort of sentimental attachment to America when they feel like they have total ideological control over it because they’re Liberals, and Liberals ultimately have no nation of their own.
Trump didn’t drain the soul out of anything. Democrats just adopted an… https://t.co/W9talDxJDS pic.twitter.com/43MNveSUKD
— Christian Heiens 🏛 (@ChristianHeiens) May 31, 2026
This mirrors a larger trend among Democrats: they only like America when they run it. What seems to distinguish the socialist wing of the Party is that they don’t even like America that much when the Democratic Party has the power, because they think it is systemically flawed and its political and economic systems must be replaced.
You will notice that in the Gallup polling, Republicans’ pride in their country is not determined by whether they have political power at any moment, because their pride is directed at the system, not the people in office. This is a fundamentally different way of viewing what makes America America.
Evidently, according to the New Yorker, to be patriotic is to be “problematic”. You see, if you think this nation has been an instrument of good in the world, far more than one of evil, then you are a “problem”. If you are patriotic, then obviously there is something wrong…
— Patrick O’Kelley (@PatrickOKelley6) June 3, 2026
Evidently, according to the New Yorker, to be patriotic is to be “problematic”. You see, if you think this nation has been an instrument of good in the world, far more than one of evil, then you are a “problem”. If you are patriotic, then obviously there is something wrong with you.
For the Democrats, they must crush out this patriotism, because it is their “problem”. American citizens who are patriotic, will not vote Democrat… the party that shows, time and time again, that they do not want this nation, and only want to change it into something that has them in charge, telling the subjects what they can say, what they can eat, who they can be friends with… total control. You know, things that are anti-American.
With the approaching 250th anniversary of this nation you will see more and more articles like this. Back in the 1950s, there was the “red scare”, a belief that communists would infiltrate Hollywood and academia and turn our children’s minds against us.
Surprise, they were wildly successful.
If you look at the most prominent Democratic candidates this election cycle, who are among the AOC/Mamdani wing of the Democrats, the unifying trend is a deep-seated distrust of the country or even outright hatred. An al-Qaeda operative just won the nomination for a Congressional seat in New Jersey, in the district where American hero Scott Beamer is laid to rest.
This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the… pic.twitter.com/f9X1Yv6gEx
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) June 3, 2026
This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.
Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.
It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.
One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.
Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.
New York City’s mayor himself is a Hamas supporter and Islamist who campaigned at a Mosque run by radical clerics who are quite open about their disdain for all things Jewish and Western.
And then there is Graham Platner.
Hasan Piker is a hero to this part of the Democratic movement, and Luigi Mangione is revered by many in this group.
It’s not just the political system that is despised by the socialist wing of the Democratic Party, but Americans themselves. That, I think, is an even stronger sense among this group than the hatred of capitalism and Liberalism. They believe that Americans who disagree with them are fascist and should be replaced, explaining their preference for open borders and what they call the “Global South,” a Marxist term for the Third World.
As Trump birthday bash collapses labor and allies step up protests. Unions, No Kings, 50501 roll out alternatives for people not attending the president’s party#politics #labor #NoKings https://t.co/ePkECEwh13
— PeoplesWorld (@PeoplesWorld) June 3, 2026
Economic and, in some ways, political conditions in America were near a low point in 1976, the 200th anniversary of our nation’s founding, but Americans still banded together to celebrate the nation’s birth. Watergate was barely in the rear-view mirror, crime was at an all-time high, New York City was bankrupt, and yet people swelled with pride as the big ships sailed into New York Harbor.
This year, a large number of Democrats plan to boycott the 250th anniversary celebrations because of Donald Trump. Artists who were going to play a concert at the National Mall have been backing out because they despise Donald Trump, as if America is only fit to exist if leftists run the country.
Otherwise we suck.
Burcum: Music stars are rejecting Trump’s Freedom 250 concert. Good. https://t.co/SZzb2kPTcl
— The Minnesota Star Tribune (@StarTribune) June 4, 2026
That tells you all you need to know about the Bolshevik wing of the party. Expect riots.
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