I bet his supporters watching are thinking about how good he’s doing against such nasty, unfair women ganging up on him.
This isn’t moving the needle. At this point the Republicans could run a convicted serial murderer and the sheep will get in line, because to them it’s still better than the alternative.
This. His supporters are a combination of nasty and dumb. The former want the chaos. The latter hear each word but do not understand the meaning of a full sentence, so ofc they think his words are wise. It’s the same demographic that blast Born In The USA over the summer and think its a patriotic song.
The thing is, most Trump supporters I know are not nasty or dumb - they’re well off professionals, middle/upper class families, successful business owners, etc. that the Dems have just gone too far left for. Many are incredibly tolerant, welcoming, generous people. Sure, there may be a subset of the diehard MAGA nuts, but that’s not the group that’s going to make or break him.
meh, i call bullshit. you may think they’re lovely people, but it’s a two-party system. they are voting for trump, who’s just objectively a bad person. he’s a felon. he says and does awful things and by supporting him they provide cover for that. if they want to claim that the “dems have gone too far left,” they’re certainly allowed to say that. but they’ve made their choice to support trump and get to carry that stench with them, and no amount of niceness and welcoming washes that stench away.
I think most of the intelligent middle class voters for Trump simply tune out any information that would ordinarily challenge their moral compasses, or would otherwise normally disqualify him as a candidate for them. They are well aware that his a “weird†guy, that does immoral things, but they rationalize it away as him being not your usual politician.
And many of them genuinely believe the 2020 election was fraudulent, although if you dig deep with the most intelligent of them, they will only point to the PA election as being “unfair†because the rules were changed not by the state legislature, which is how election changes should be amended. They also ignore the fact that this was contested in the courts and the changes were accepted by the courts.
The bottom line is that they identify as Republicans and will only vote for a Republican, all other information be damned.
Yeah … I think a big part is lack of diversity in news sources. If all you listen to is CNN you will have a completely different viewpoint as someone who only listens to Fox. It is too bad that many of the major news organizations have lost the plot and only reinforce their circles.
Having said that, the r party is off the rails. I wish they would actually listen to constituents and form a coherent message that keeps them relevant. But anyone who thinks the d party has gone too far left typically have difficulty articulating why they think that.
drn92
Disclaimer: I’m a Trump hater…
The first sentence in your last paragraph sadly seems mostly true. Re: your last sentence…
The list is long and not difficult to articulate. I shan’t make the attempt because a) I’ve got more useful things to do, and b) I fear the bulk of my fellow LR denzians should suffer the vapors (not that the LR is left leaning or anything).
The policies of the Democratic Party in the US are not particularly leftist on a western democracy scale. By most measures they are center-right. Meanwhile the policies of MAGA are far-right nationalist.
