According to Morning Consult, Joe Biden is the most popular leader in the G7 group of rich countries:
Among all countries surveyed, only four have leaders with approval ratings over 50%: India, Argentina, Mexico, and Switzerland.
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Biden is great.
Scholz is a weasel.
It would also be interesting to see which foreign leader(s) other countries have the most confidence in. Trudeau and Macron, for example, might come out looking a bit better abroad than in their own countries. Plus, the French always hate whoever's president. I think De Gaulle was probably the last French president to have a positive approval rating. I was just in Europe for a while and Biden seems widely admired (except in heavily Arab/Muslim areas of course). The main worry was about his age and whether he would still be able to beat Trump. Europeans are scared shitless of another Trump administration -- and rightfully so.
Not super worried about Europe. Sure, Trump II will suck for them too, like he will for all our allies. But unlike some of our allies, Europe is wealthy. And huge. They could certainly field their own military defense if they had to. One lesson they should’ve learned from Trump I is that America can no longer be trusted to judiciously police the entire world and maintain global world order in perpetuity. They have to step up and start defending themselves if we’re stupid enough to throw away or underutilize* all our European bases.
*I’m sure Trump wouldn’t actually throw away our bases there. But what good are those bases to the EU if all they protect is the base itself while Russian soldiers and tanks run across the rest of the bloc?
"One lesson they should’ve learned from Trump I is that America can no longer be trusted to judiciously police the entire world and maintain global world order in perpetuity. They have to step up and start defending themselves if we’re stupid enough to throw away or underutilize* all our European bases."
Except: part of the reason that we and all our European pals collectively get along so well is that military conflict is basically completely off the table. But if European nations were to (once again) start arming themselves up?
It's a sub-optimal world where one country has all the guns (even if selfishly I'm happy that it's _my_ country); it's a much worse world where lots of countries have all the guns.
India? Argentina? Mexico? I never see their leaders mentioned in the press in any terms other than the sharply negative. AMLO, for instance, while praised wildly when he was first elected, is now depicted as an incompetent ham.
If they're all popular at home, it just goes to show how different perceptions can be.
As for Switzerland, it doesn't even have a single leader in the sense that other countries do. It has an elected council with a rotating presidency.
When all else fails, follow the link(s) provided by Kevin. They aren't always sufficient but they are at least a start. And in this case the link will give you India, Argentina, and Mexico despite their not having made it through the Drum sieve.
+1 It's why I come here.
If this is a response to anything I said, I cannot discern the point.
What would the approval ratings be if we judged leaders the way we judge an NFL football team? The way leaders are judged is equivalent to turning on the TV, watching one series of downs, and judging the offense that didn't score points as incompetent, or judging the defense that allowed points to be scored as incompetent, and then writing that judgment in stone.
A POTUS should be judged on his/her ability to make a positive change over the long term, and not on their inability to control the short-term behavior of immature adults with too much power, in which case Biden's approval rating would be sky-high, and the approval rating of the alternatives would be going down the drain like an orange turd in a flushed toilet.
Agree. We have ridiculous criteria for how we judge leaders, especially the president. Part of the problem is short-term focus, as you say. Another part is that we use different standards for the different parties in order to maintain some parity in our political system. For Dems, imagine heaven and for every instance where reality falls short, we need to blame the guy in charge. For GOPers, imagine hell and for every instance where something goes right, we have to give credit to the guy who had nothing to do with it. (Like cheap gas at the end of Trump's term.)
News coverage is absurd at times in how it assigns blame. Next time "chaos" at the border is news, you can bet it will be Biden's fault, and advantage, Trump. Little mention will be given to the fact that Biden tried to work a deal to solve the problem, while Trump single-handedly nixed it. An even more ridiculous example of this dynamic was the lady who refused to vote for Biden because women lost the right to abortion on his watch.
Homeless people on the streets. Don't like it. Some (nonwhite) students protesting on campus. Don't like it. Two men kissing in the park. Don't like it. Price of gas up five cents this week. Don't like it. Guy selling his condo is asking a ridiculous price. Don't like it. Boss wants me to work in the office. Don't like it. Neighbor's dog bit me. Don't like it. The Middle East is a violent mess. Don't like it. All these things have a common root cause. The guy in charge. Why the hell should I vote for Joe Biden?
Americans act like teenagers who don't want any restrictions in their lives. "I want the government off my back." But the moment anything goes wrong or they see anything they don't like, they're whiny five-year-olds who go crying about the guy in charge. "Gonna have to vote for the other guy."
Well, tied for it anyway. And come November, that will mean exactly squat.
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Aurora Borealis alert for tonight. This one's big! Path of visibility drops down to Southern California through Texas and Northern Florida.
https://www.gi.alaska.edu/monitors/aurora-forecast
Odd. Looking at the site circa 1430 Pacific time shows things still rather north. Am I misreading?
What did Fumio Kishida do to Japan?
Declining real wages, higher prices, various government competency scandals, unpopular policies, reactive tenure.
Probably also El Salvador in the over 50% camp ...
And interesting to see India there, given how we in the West are routinely told by our media that Modi is the devil incarnate.
I also SUSPECT that Putin and Xi over 50%, though there are obvious methodological problems in proving that.
Ethno-nationalist leaders are often popular with the majority...until they destroy everything (Hitler was extremely popular in the mid to late 1930s). It's like eating an entire cake: the first bite is amazing, but by the end you want to barf.
Is there any way that the hard right won't win in the next French elections or are they more complicated than that?