A full 71% of Americans think that the United States of America is on the wrong track.
From Meet the Press on NBC News:
The 71% of Americans in our latest NBC News poll saying the country is headed in the wrong direction is the eighth time in the last nine NBC News surveys dating back to Oct. 2021 when the wrong track has been above 70%.
And the one exception was in Sept. 2022, when it was 68%.
We have never before seen this level of sustained pessimism in the 30-year-plus history of the poll.
It's not that just 70% think the country is going in a bad direction, but that the number has stayed at or around 70% for an entire year.
Nothing Biden did in 2022 made ANYONE change their mind about the direction of the country. There was no reason for hope given at all.
Honestly, who are these 29% of people who are looking around and saying, "Yep, I really like this plan"?
What's more, when our poll asked respondents how they feel about where America is headed over the next year, 69% gave negative words and phrases, versus 23% who had positive ones.
That's a change from two years ago, right before President Biden's inauguration, when just 52% had negative words and phrases on this question.
2020 was so quaint, wasn't it?
Everyone thought we got rid of the bad orange man, we had a vaccine, and we were going to end the pandemic and get the economy going strong again.
