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Checks and balances aside, a plurality of people voted for this. They saw Jan 6 happen. They saw all the lawsuits and criminal charges. They saw the impeachment

by tootie 2y ago

Checks and balances aside, a plurality of people voted for this. They saw Jan 6 happen. They saw all the lawsuits and criminal charges. They saw the impeachments. And they just want him anyway. It's been debated ad nauseum already and I don't think anyone has given a satisfactory explanation for how he keeps doing this.

0x5f3759df-i 2y ago
I think the only explanation is that the endless lies coming out of his mouth allowed many uninformed people to build their own Trump in their heads out of all the possible lies they liked the most. They then simultaneously believed everything they didn’t like were the actual lies. A kind of choose your own adventure. That and term 1 Trump really was basically what was left of the Republican establishment running things while Trump did his reality TV show presidency. So people wrongly assumed the same people would be there to stop him from driving the country off a cliff.
SoftTalker 2y ago
Because they saw the other side doing nothing about the things they cared about, while also scornfully telling them they were wrong, racist, hateful, and stupid. Trump could easily have been defeated by a centrist Democrat who focused on kitchen table issues not fringe social ones, and was able to discuss and debate them coherently.
- tootie 2y ago
  That's clearly just your opinion and it's not something that makes sense to me. Nor does it explain why their supposed disappointment translated into voting for known criminal and fraudster who did even less for anyone.
- watwut 2y ago
  Nah, nonsense. It was republicans who made trans issues big - because it rally their base. Same with abortions - republicans made them big topic and successfully removed them. Centrist democrat strategybis what democratic party does, again and again and it just empowers hard rigt to move more right. Stop constantly blame "the other side" for what republicans consistently do. Democrats did led the economy much better, they cause less debt. Republicans do the above worst and then they blame democrats. Conservatives dislike it when things improve, again and again. They are in fact hateful and take pleasure at causing harm. The social issues is what motivates republican base.

by tootie 2y ago

0x5f3759df-i 2y ago

I think the only explanation is that the endless lies coming out of his mouth allowed many uninformed people to build their own Trump in their heads out of all the possible lies they liked the most. They then simultaneously believed everything they didn’t like were the actual lies. A kind of choose your own adventure. That and term 1 Trump really was basically what was left of the Republican establishment running things while Trump did his reality TV show presidency. So people wrongly assumed the same people would be there to stop him from driving the country off a cliff.

SoftTalker 2y ago

Because they saw the other side doing nothing about the things they cared about, while also scornfully telling them they were wrong, racist, hateful, and stupid. Trump could easily have been defeated by a centrist Democrat who focused on kitchen table issues not fringe social ones, and was able to discuss and debate them coherently.

tootie 2y ago
That's clearly just your opinion and it's not something that makes sense to me. Nor does it explain why their supposed disappointment translated into voting for known criminal and fraudster who did even less for anyone.
watwut 2y ago
Nah, nonsense. It was republicans who made trans issues big - because it rally their base. Same with abortions - republicans made them big topic and successfully removed them. Centrist democrat strategybis what democratic party does, again and again and it just empowers hard rigt to move more right. Stop constantly blame "the other side" for what republicans consistently do. Democrats did led the economy much better, they cause less debt. Republicans do the above worst and then they blame democrats. Conservatives dislike it when things improve, again and again. They are in fact hateful and take pleasure at causing harm. The social issues is what motivates republican base.