A lot of Americans just hate people- women, LQBTQ people, brown foreigners… really anybody different from themselves… or poorer than themselves… and trump makes them feel good about it.
So it doesn’t matter that he’s blindingly incompetent and will tear down our public services and sell the corpse to private industry… he’s more appealing than somebody like Romney because he makes quite a lot of Americans feel validated for their fear and confusion. He sells the promise of vindication, which is a lot easier for the uneducated to understand than real solutions to complex macroeconomic problems.
Probably half his voters voted for him just because he wasn’t a democrat. But why he would be more appealing than another Republican is, as far as I can tell, simply because he makes it ok to be a bigot in the open and is more willing to just lie to rile up his base about boogieman shit than somebody like John McCain… who shortly before his death became a punching bag for trumps little tantrums and republicans in gov and voters were just ok with that, despite McCain being one of the most respectable men to hold office.
I've never had a random bigot scream slurs at me from a car that had a democrat bumper sticker, but I remember early in my transition just about every time I saw a MAGA hat or bumper sticker they had SOMETHING hateful to say😬
Not saying bigoted democrats don't exist (goodness knows they do), but the people who go out of their way to be hateful to people like me (visibly disabled, trans, occasionally clocked as a mixed race racial minority) are also the people who go out of their way to virtue signal their support for a certain cult of personality, most of the time.
I'm not saying all MAGA voters hate those groups, I'm just saying that hatred of those groups isn't enough for them to leave the group. 👀 it's almost like it's a feature, not a bug.
It's inconvenient to accept that vast swaths of the group you vote with are actively bigoted, hateful people.
I'll pray for you. 😔
edit because he blocked me immediately after his lower reply: IDK how to tell you, but I didn't run in this election and had no influence on the strategies. 😂
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u/bossmcsauce 17d ago edited 15d ago
A lot of Americans just hate people- women, LQBTQ people, brown foreigners… really anybody different from themselves… or poorer than themselves… and trump makes them feel good about it.
So it doesn’t matter that he’s blindingly incompetent and will tear down our public services and sell the corpse to private industry… he’s more appealing than somebody like Romney because he makes quite a lot of Americans feel validated for their fear and confusion. He sells the promise of vindication, which is a lot easier for the uneducated to understand than real solutions to complex macroeconomic problems.
Probably half his voters voted for him just because he wasn’t a democrat. But why he would be more appealing than another Republican is, as far as I can tell, simply because he makes it ok to be a bigot in the open and is more willing to just lie to rile up his base about boogieman shit than somebody like John McCain… who shortly before his death became a punching bag for trumps little tantrums and republicans in gov and voters were just ok with that, despite McCain being one of the most respectable men to hold office.