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You'd never guess from reading HN or Reddit, but I have to remind myself that not all who voted for Trump last year are MAGA. My understanding is that America
by yongjik 2y ago
You'd never guess from reading HN or Reddit, but I have to remind myself that not all who voted for Trump last year are MAGA.
My understanding is that America has a lot of low-information voters. They don't watch debates. They share cat videos on Facebook. They certainly never comment on HN, they don't even know HN. On the election day, they think "The eggs are too damn expensive!" and vote accordingly.
All the rhetorical offensives, counteroffensives, contortions, and motivated reasonings won't reach these people, when they go to the grocery and find everything getting more expensive.
(Some of them might even have 401K and IRA. Yeah, I know, boomer stuff.)
We'll see.
- rsynnott 2y agoThis is the most baffling thing about Trump’s strategy to me. Trump is essentially asking people to embrace pain now in exchange for jam tomorrow. But there’s no reason to think that the American public have any intention of embracing pain! Look how upset they got about eggs! This really all feels like it could very easily blow up in his face.