Posters who are rooting for Trump's approval ratings to rise...why?

[Florida Man for Crime]

Every day when I look at the approval thread and a lot of other posts on here, I notice that some posters seem to be pining for Trump's approval ratings to go up.

My question is, what exactly would be so appealing about a rise in Trump's numbers? His approvals rising by any significant amount (i.e. more than a rise of a few points) would likely only be possible with a horrendous 9/11 style mass destruction terrorist attack or Pearl Harbor type attack by a foreign government causing a rally-around-the-flag effect. Attacks against America such as Pearl Harbor in 1941 and 9/11 in 2001 were pretty terrible times to live through as an American citizen, and I'd think most people are old enough to at least remember the latter.

It just seems more and more to me that Trump supporters are rooting for misery, failure, and mass scale death of their fellow citizens in America simply because they like Trump that much. That doesn't make you much of a citizen if you ask me.

Trump supporters, why do you hate America and want your fellow citizens to die?

[Florida Man for Crime]

This thread is clearly a parody against twenty42's thread.

Yes. I would hope that is obvious.

For the record, I disagree very much with the argument I made in the OP. I disagree with it for precisely the same reasons that I disagree with the argument made by twenty42.

Anyone who disagrees with either argument ought to disagree with the other one.

[Florida Man for Crime]

The difference is that a president's approval rating can rise without a catastrophic event, but their approval will only likely fall in the event of bad news for America.

This is disingenuous.

Basically, your argument amounts to the old tired sophistry that any criticism of x (in particular where x = the President) is unpatriotic. Such an argument is fallacious, insulting, offensive, and runs counter to the ideals we ought to hold true in a free and open democratic society.

And yes, while I suspect that using this sort of argument is/was less prevalent by Democrats under Obama than it was/is among Republicans under Trump and Bush, this is also the case when some Democrats/liberals made the same argument about Obama (I certainly never made any such argument).

You should be able to distinguish between disagreeing with or disapproving of a person, the way that person conducts themselves, and that person's policies and wanting bad things to happen to America.