Yes, they have a particular narrow cleverness about how to abuse people and systems for their own gain. Since fascists only care about power, pointing out that they are dumb, hypocritical or inconsistent doesn’t achieve anything. All they see is that you’re keeping yourself busy talking while they load their guns and prepare the camps. The only way to fight fascism is to actually fight it.

The leopard they fed is getting uncomfortably close to their faces.

Hard to say, but their description of methodology indicates that they are trying and taking active steps to achieve that.

It’s actually a relatively large sample size, enough to get an accurate survey, and increasing it further leads to diminishing returns in terms of improved accuracy of the result. You don’t need that many people to get an accurate survey. If you play with a calculator like this one you can see that this sample size for a US population of 340 million people gets you into the region of 99% confidence with a 1.8% margin of error.

How do we know this poll accurately represents what most Americans think?

You can check the methodology of the survey to see whether it has any issues:

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/02/07/views-of-trump-methodology/

Its astonishing that almost half the population of the USA continues, in every poll, to rate Donald Trump and Elon Musk favourably. And this is after Musk’s triumphant angry Nazi salutes. People say that fascists are a small minority in the USA, but the polls suggest otherwise.

And yet media organizations still build whole news stories around embedded tweets (or xits or whatever they’re called now) and all kinds of organizations still use it to make announcements. They need to realize what it is and leave it to the Nazis.