I’ve spoken to Trump supporters and the common denominator is they don’t care about anything but getting illegal immigrants and Muslims out. Our environment can suffer, wildlife die off, they can lose their constitutional rights and insurance, none of that comes before the ban, wall and the round ups.
Politico seems to have forgotten that even though Trump’s supporters claim they voted for him for assorted nebulous economic and foreign policy reasons, what they ACTUALLY like about him is the bigotry. And since he hasn’t changed position on hating various minorities, which is the only issue they actually care about,…
All the Trump supporters I know, most of whom are rural, not college-educated, and white, care about problems and solutions that have no effect on their lives at all, thanks to right-wing radio and TV.
I could not possibly agree more. The only consistent underlying theme is hatred toward different castes. Fuck, he’s so dumb it’s actually fooling people.
I think the “Trump supporters will naturally turn on him as he harms the nation” is a comfortable narrative liberals like because it means they have to do less work and that more people have something in common with them. Unfortunately, things aren’t that simple. The “Trump voters weren’t really racist” was kind of a…
Based on what my Trump supporter friends have been saying, the NYT article is way more accurate. He hasn’t lost any of them; they’re sticking with him no matter what.
My conclusion from this is that Politico doesn’t do very good reporting. My general sense from the Trump supporters on my Facebook feed is that they want to generally ignore the bad things he has done and that people who are being personally affected aren’t really connecting it with “I shouldn’t have voted for him”.…
Just more evidence that American politics is less about ideas and beliefs than it is about tribalism.
It’s obvious to me, if not to reporters, that Trump’s supporters will stick with him so long as he doesn’t back off on issues of race. That’s the only thing his hardcore supporters care about. He backs off on immigration or the Muslim ban or fires the Nazis in his adminstration, like Bannon, and they’ll turn. They…
The hard line White Nationalists are pissed about Kushner taking over the right hand spot from Bannon, but all the regular run-of-the-mill idiots are just fine with him because they aren’t smart enough to understand that he’s not living up to his promises.
So, in summary: the American electorate is a swirling maelstrom of people with contradictory opinions that gets filtered through an outdated and ineffectual system to produce unqualified leaders that represent the worst in all of us.
In the most recent survey I could find, his approval among Republican voters was 81% (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/02/28/us/politics/the-highs-and-lows-of-trumps-approval.html), and that’s before he got them all excited over dropping bombs and firing missiles. There may be some Trump voters who are turning…
Oh for God’s sake. WE DON’T NEED HIS SIDE OF THE STORY. There’s a motherfucking recorded video we can all see with our own damn eyes. We literally don’t need to know one fucking thing more about this situation in order to determine that it was handled appallingly by both United AND these security officers.
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It was obviously his fault for not being the perfect victim with a spotless past, like all Internet commenters.
He’s a doctor. He didn’t choose to be a public figure, dude; he’s not Justin Bieber. He’s just a doctor who wanted to go home so he could treat his patients. What the fuck is wrong with you?
Hey now, David Dao deserved to be physically assaulted and bloodied because he was not sufficiently compliant to a private corporations desire to make more money.
You are literally the only one who feels this way.
The reason this has everyone freaked the fuck out is really simple. You’re deliberately being obtuse by drawing conclusions like well, if I got pulled over by a cop, or questioned buying pot, I would do whatever the cop says. Because if you have transgressed in some way, you now need to comply in order to not have…
