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Worth considering if this is what you voted for. Was the moment of pique worth it?
by woooooo 2y ago
Worth considering if this is what you voted for. Was the moment of pique worth it?
- rayiner 2y agoI’d rather have JD than Trump, but otherwise I’m thrilled. I don’t know what you mean by “moment of pique.” Ross Perot got like 20% of the vote. MAGA basically realigns the GOP to absorb the Ross Perot Democrats and Buchanan Republicans while pushing out the neocons. It’s not a new set of political beliefs.
- woooooo 2y agoBy "pique", I mean that the motivating factor I've heard from most Trump people, and that I'm reading from your posts, is "make the libs cry". First term was fine, he was mostly harmless and made the libs cry every day with fake culture war stuff. In 2024 I get the impression people were voting for a repeat of that, not some crazy reconfiguration of the entire economy. Trump ran on "they're making your kids trans and the Somalis are eating dogs", not "we will end global trade and deport anyone who criticizes Israel".
- rayiner 2y agoIt’s the same ideology being pushed by the same people. In particular, mass immigration and free trade are two sides of the same globalization coin. And stopping outsourcing was #5 on Trump’s platform: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform