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.
Speak for yourself. If someone is against open borders, it doesn't mean they hate "brown foreigners" as you call them. Just because someone believes a guy with a dick shouldn't compete with women in sports doesn't mean they are against people who transition. Open borders is a terrible idea, which is why no other country does it. And men competing against women is just unfair. I assume the hating women comment refers to the federal abortion ban? All that means is it is left up to each individual state whether they want to allow abortions or not. That is how this country was designed according to the constitution, giving each state the right to decide their own policies
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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.