Trump's approval rating if he became a dictator?

[IceSpear]

Let's say Trump decided to dissolve Congress and the Supreme Court, and installed himself as dictator. What would his approval rating be?

It's tempting to say option 1, but remember, him dissolving the government would be dismissed as "fake news" by many Trump supporters, and FOX News will spend all their time talking about imaginary Hillary scandals.

I'm saying upper 20s.

[IceSpear]

Real dictators don't have <50% approval ratings...

For the purposes of this poll we'll assume he doesn't (or didn't yet) crack down on the polling companies.

[IceSpear]

All pollsters would be shutdown except for TRUMP polls, which show consistent 99.9% until Hillary Clinton is executed live, and then that number would move to 100%.

Real dictators don't have <50% approval ratings...

For the purposes of this poll we'll assume he doesn't (or didn't yet) crack down on the polling companies.

that's the first thing he would do, though.

He'd probably be a bit more concerned with consolidating power first.

[IceSpear]

Leave it to Atlas to obsess over the minutiae of "OMG how would we know his real approval rating in a dictatorship because the polling companies would get the guillotine", rather than just assuming OP is asking what his actual approval rating would be among the people based on internal/individual opinions.

In societies with authoritarian regimes, it is possible for the people to develop something akin to Stockholm Syndrome and become comfortable/indifferent/apathetic about their state of oppression, especially when combined with nationalist fervor. The Chinese government is generally very popular in China except for among some beleaguered minority groups.

Yes, talking about a crackdown on polling companies is silly and irrelevant, but it is perfectly reasonable to discuss how a dictatorial regime could actually be more popular than a democratic regime, especially if the majority basically retains its day-to-day civil liberties.

I'm asking what his approval would be immediately after this, not years/decades later.

[IceSpear]

Real dictators don't have <50% approval ratings...

For the purposes of this poll we'll assume he doesn't (or didn't yet) crack down on the polling companies.

Cracking down on the polling companies isn't the issue.

You get a call in the middle of the evening from a stranger saying "Do you approve of President-for-Life Trump, long may he reign, and his restoration of the Republic by seizing power away from the treacherous Democrats, corrupt bureaucrats, and elderly judges?"

Your response totally is "Yes, of course. Hail Trump!"

The majority of people in Iran polls said they wanted to be able to elect their Supreme Leader.

[IceSpear]

..became? Isn't he already?

No. At the moment he's merely a dicktator.