>And there it is. The people who ended up voting for Trump have been feeling increasing alienation and hatred from the rest of the country, and they finally found their political power. No amount of insulting them is going to stop it.
The people who voted for him deserve to feel alienated and hatred, because it's not like he didn't have a track record. He's already been president. He has been a grandstanding loudmouth for the better part of the last 50 years if not longer.
It's one thing to vote for an outsider. It's another thing to say "Gosh, times are tough, and Biden's not making them better. Let me vote again for Donald Trump, a guy who sucks at business and politics, who made things awful in his first term."
Donald Trump's handlers at the Heritage Foundation put out a memorandum of what they'd do if he was re-elected. Most of these things were dangerously stupid, and a majority of them would make the country's average citizen worse off economically. Surprisingly, people believed Donald Trump's words when he claimed he'd never heard of Project 2025. Unsurprisingly, his entire campaign staff was filled with people who quite literally were the ones that wrote the memorandum and plan....and then got themselves installed as agency heads or cabinet members.
Donald Trump has always stood for Donald Trump making money by any means possible, and screwing over everyone else in the process. It's quite transparent. Yet somehow even after he was already president, people somehow overlook all his traits and say "that guy stands for the average man, he's for Main Street not Wall Street, he's going to lower my bills". Folks, he's a NYC real estate dude that wears makeup. He shits in a gold toilet and has never worked a day in his life. He lied and lied and lied about COVID. He's not for Main Street or the average American citizen, not at all. Why do people not see that?
Whelp, the people who voted for Trump are the majority, the "how could they be so stupid" attitude really isn't how you change hearts and minds.
And these people felt hated and alienated long before Trump, and nobody really did anything to bring them back into the fold over the last 4 or 8 years.
The Republic may well fall as a direct result of your kind of attitude. Being so absolutely certain of how right you are isn't going to help you.
>And these people felt hated and alienated long before Trump, and nobody really did anything to bring them back into the fold over the last 4 or 8 years.
I see your point, but let's not pretend here - that crowd was given ample opportunity to become economically stable since the times of Obama. Example: job retraining in Coal Country. Obama rolled out the red carpet for them, offering retraining, upskilling, everything under the sun. But no, those people just wanted to work in the mines, even though everyone and their cousin knew those mining jobs were not coming back. That group clung to their old ways, and when Trump said he'd bring the jobs back, they voted for him. The jobs never came back, and they voted for him again anyway.
>The Republic may well fall as a direct result of your kind of attitude. Being so absolutely certain of how right you are isn't going to help you.
It'll fall because a bunch of people who voted for "muh economy" didn't see the error of thinking a 6-time bankrupt conman would help them. My kind of attitude? Bugger off, my kind of attitude calls a spade a spade. "This fat makeup-wearing career criminal who inherited hundreds of millions yet bankrupted 2 casinos and declared personal bankruptcy 6 times is TOTALLY THE GUY WHO IS GOING TO REINVIGORATE THE US ECONOMY" I mean, where'd your common sense go? Oh yeah, people fell for this twice now. As if plenty of evidence from the first go-round wasn't enough.
Do I blame them? Yes, I absolutely do. Do I blame Democrats for managing to snatch defeat from what should have been an easy victory? Yeah, I absolutely do.
The people who voted for him deserve to feel alienated and hatred, because it's not like he didn't have a track record. He's already been president. He has been a grandstanding loudmouth for the better part of the last 50 years if not longer.
It's one thing to vote for an outsider. It's another thing to say "Gosh, times are tough, and Biden's not making them better. Let me vote again for Donald Trump, a guy who sucks at business and politics, who made things awful in his first term."
Donald Trump's handlers at the Heritage Foundation put out a memorandum of what they'd do if he was re-elected. Most of these things were dangerously stupid, and a majority of them would make the country's average citizen worse off economically. Surprisingly, people believed Donald Trump's words when he claimed he'd never heard of Project 2025. Unsurprisingly, his entire campaign staff was filled with people who quite literally were the ones that wrote the memorandum and plan....and then got themselves installed as agency heads or cabinet members.
Donald Trump has always stood for Donald Trump making money by any means possible, and screwing over everyone else in the process. It's quite transparent. Yet somehow even after he was already president, people somehow overlook all his traits and say "that guy stands for the average man, he's for Main Street not Wall Street, he's going to lower my bills". Folks, he's a NYC real estate dude that wears makeup. He shits in a gold toilet and has never worked a day in his life. He lied and lied and lied about COVID. He's not for Main Street or the average American citizen, not at all. Why do people not see that?