This normalization of Trump voters really needs to stop. They voted for homophobic, transphobic, racist policies that are going to actively harm millions of Americans. They are bad people, and Democrats *really* need to stop sugar coating this fact. Hillary was 100% right. In fact, she was being kind.
This normalization of Trump voters really needs to stop. They voted for homophobic, transphobic, racist policies that are going to actively harm millions of Americans. They are bad people, and Democrats *really* need to stop sugar coating this fact. Hillary was 100% right. In fact, she was being kind.
Racism and bigotry was "baked into" the American experiment from the beginning. We have managed, at great cost, to beat it somewhat back into submission only once, and that took 100 years *after* the conclusion of the Civil War. Republicans embraced bigotry once again with Reagan's "dog whistles," like his campaign stop in Philadelphia, MS. The GOP fully embraced bigotry in their attempt to defeat President Obama. In 2015-16, the Trumpists used it to eat whatever small redeemung parts remained of the GOP's soul.
Furthermore, an "academic lecture" is *exactly* what the Trump voters needed, they just don't like it.
Democrats and a (very) small number of Republicans have actually been saving Republican voters from themselves for *years.* This includes Congress legislating changes to certain programs so benefit checks go out even during a government shutdown, to John McCain's "thumbs down."
What Republican voters have made very clear is they're unwilling to learn anything except through personal experience.
It's sadly going to take millions of innocent Americans down alongside them, but Republican voters are going to find out why the economic policies they voted for don't work, and how they voted against their own interest. Unfortunately, because Fox News, Carlson and the right wing echo chamber will still be feeding them a constant diet of lies, I'm not confident they'll learn their lesson even after the economy tanks, prices and inflation are higher and they lose their jobs.
Using grocery prices as an example, what they actually blame the Biden/Harris administration for is not "just inflation," but a lack of deflation. They don't understand how bad deflation is, and how taming inflation does *not* mean prices stop rising or go back to where they were "before inflation" (as if such a time existed.)
Furthermore, their other economic "ideas" are just as loony. My parents are MAGA, and they want to go back to the size of the federal government and taxes of the early 1960s...but keeping 21st century salaries, and other "good inflation." It's complete mathmatical and economic lunacy.
When confronted by facts that contravine their accepted beliefs/narrative, they fall back on "agree to disagree" and then go back to Fox News, which tells them things that reinforce their existing beliefs. Conway's "alternative facts" wasn't a joke. They really have constructed their own "alternative facts" on many different issues.
You are correct that Trump voters largely operate on how they "feel" instead of objective reality. We have decades of eroding funding of education to blame for that
Exactly right. The press and Republicans normalized trump - when any one of the myriad of things he did would have sunk anyone else, which let him keep on. This takes it to the next step - stop normalizing ANY of his voters. They all knew what they were getting. Thanks for this.
They *are* bad people.
This normalization of Trump voters really needs to stop. They voted for homophobic, transphobic, racist policies that are going to actively harm millions of Americans. They are bad people, and Democrats *really* need to stop sugar coating this fact. Hillary was 100% right. In fact, she was being kind.
Racism and bigotry was "baked into" the American experiment from the beginning. We have managed, at great cost, to beat it somewhat back into submission only once, and that took 100 years *after* the conclusion of the Civil War. Republicans embraced bigotry once again with Reagan's "dog whistles," like his campaign stop in Philadelphia, MS. The GOP fully embraced bigotry in their attempt to defeat President Obama. In 2015-16, the Trumpists used it to eat whatever small redeemung parts remained of the GOP's soul.
Furthermore, an "academic lecture" is *exactly* what the Trump voters needed, they just don't like it.
Democrats and a (very) small number of Republicans have actually been saving Republican voters from themselves for *years.* This includes Congress legislating changes to certain programs so benefit checks go out even during a government shutdown, to John McCain's "thumbs down."
What Republican voters have made very clear is they're unwilling to learn anything except through personal experience.
It's sadly going to take millions of innocent Americans down alongside them, but Republican voters are going to find out why the economic policies they voted for don't work, and how they voted against their own interest. Unfortunately, because Fox News, Carlson and the right wing echo chamber will still be feeding them a constant diet of lies, I'm not confident they'll learn their lesson even after the economy tanks, prices and inflation are higher and they lose their jobs.
Using grocery prices as an example, what they actually blame the Biden/Harris administration for is not "just inflation," but a lack of deflation. They don't understand how bad deflation is, and how taming inflation does *not* mean prices stop rising or go back to where they were "before inflation" (as if such a time existed.)
Furthermore, their other economic "ideas" are just as loony. My parents are MAGA, and they want to go back to the size of the federal government and taxes of the early 1960s...but keeping 21st century salaries, and other "good inflation." It's complete mathmatical and economic lunacy.
When confronted by facts that contravine their accepted beliefs/narrative, they fall back on "agree to disagree" and then go back to Fox News, which tells them things that reinforce their existing beliefs. Conway's "alternative facts" wasn't a joke. They really have constructed their own "alternative facts" on many different issues.
You are correct that Trump voters largely operate on how they "feel" instead of objective reality. We have decades of eroding funding of education to blame for that
Exactly right. The press and Republicans normalized trump - when any one of the myriad of things he did would have sunk anyone else, which let him keep on. This takes it to the next step - stop normalizing ANY of his voters. They all knew what they were getting. Thanks for this.
Okay, yes please let’s go back to the 60s when the wealthiest paid 90% income tax.