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NYT for once calling out Trump as he is
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Everyone knows this already.
His supporters just want it to happen.
Actually a lot of them don't. It's weird but a lot of polling has found that a big chunk of Trump supporters somehow believe that all the outrageous things Trump says are somehow just for show, or are sarcasm, or just a joke. I'm not talking about the maga hat, rally goers, but the more average Trump voter who says "the economy" is their top voting issue.
Trump couldn't win a national election with just maga. Somehow getting the more normal Trump voters to believe he might actually do what he likes to talk about doing, might really help.
Just had a long conversation with a trumpist yesterday. He genuinely believed trump only did good things in his first term, lile lover taxes and drain the swamp. Could not make him believe trump praised dictators and had done a bad deal or mismanaged anything
That's probably because a lot of it is bluster. It's so he gets attention.
The problem is all the other more insidious things his fellows will do while he's making the huge fuss about nothing.
Most of the Trump supporters I know (not full on MAGA but evangelical) assume the media is taking quotes out of context and are more worried about the Democrats ruining the economy and destroying the country's Christian roots than anything Trump does. I don't think they explicitly support violence, but they also don't realize how violent the things they do support are and once they do I don't think they'll care since at least it's their religion doing it.
If it's any consolation, they won't be able to afford Truck Nuts or power tools when the tariffs hit. Real Leopards Ate My Face moment when they all realize Milwaukee is a Chinese company and a corded Sawzall suddenly costs 900 bucks. 600 bucks a battery lol
It will be the dems' fault, according to them. You just wait and see. The more you punish the uneducated, the more they love you.
Respectfully, that's literal defeatism, and it's also not true. Everyone knows who Trump is, that's correct. But not everyone knows what his "policies" are or what he intends to do. That information is simply not reaching undecided voters, which is why it's so infuriating contrasting Harris' plans to improve the lives of everyone vs Trump's Project 2024 revenge tour.
We all need to talk about the exciting things Harris/Walz want to do as well as the existential threat to our democracy Trump's schemes represent.