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By Matt Viser January 21 at 11:00 AM
MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didnt mind sending a message to the establishment and, frankly, he liked the idea of a disruptive president. But the 49-year-old retired Navy reservist has had some second thoughts.
What the [expletive] were we thinking? he asked the other night inside a Walmart here, in an area of blue-collar suburban Detroit that helped deliver Trump the presidency.
While Trumps relationship with much of his base remains strong, two years after his inauguration his ties are fraying with voters like Daudert, the kind who voted in droves for Trump in 2016 in key pockets throughout the industrial Midwest and flipped previously Democratic states to him. The shutdown fight, as it has played out over the past month, is further eroding his support among voters who like the idea of beefing up border security, but not enough to close the government.
Many here, even those who still support Trump, say they hold him most responsible. They recite his comment from the Oval Office that he would be proud to shut down the government. When he said it, they listened.
Its silly. Its destructive, Daudert said, adding that all he knows about 2020 is that he wont be supporting Trump. I was certainly for the anti-status quo.
Ill be more status quo next time.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-voters-now-blame-him-for-the-government-shutdown/2019/01/20/416051de-1b55-11e9-9ebf-c5fed1b7a081_story.html
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Another version of this article has been published by Alternet News (no paywall):
What the f*ck were we thinking?: Even Trumps most hardcore supporters are turning on him over the shutdown debacle
https://www.alternet.org/2019/01/what-the-fck-were-we-thinking-even-trumps-most-hardcore-supporters-are-turning-on-him-over-the-shutdown-debacle/
TheCowsCameHome
(40,167 posts)Thanks to you and many others, everyone is suffering now.
TheBlackAdder
(28,167 posts).
If it weren't for the socialist outreach by the military, this guy would probably not have a job, anywhere.
Yet, after collecting that gubmint money, he votes for the people who are practically enemies of this country.
He still needs that socialist reservist money to get by, but still views himself not as a taker, but as a provider.
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)If just 1 Trump voter in 100 in MI, WI and PA stayed home or voted 3rd party, the election would have flipped.
lindysalsagal
(20,592 posts)Like airlines running, clean resources, working roads and bridges, trade, banking, it goes on and on, idiots!
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)romainetarra
(51 posts)I am glad they are realizing the mistake, I only hope it is in time to repair the damage.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)dalton99a
(81,404 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,867 posts)Enjoy while you can you traitor!
progressoid
(49,951 posts)Gothmog
(144,939 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,259 posts)classof56
(5,376 posts)John scores again! Thanks for posting.
MarcA
(2,195 posts)bluestarone
(16,867 posts)NICE one!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lindysalsagal
(20,592 posts)He's a genius (Fugelsang)
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)who screwed the working class his entire life would not be a good president?
I mean....Hillary's emails anyone?
I'm glad this idiot has seen the light..well...until Fox noise and 1% billionaires pull him back to the right wing reservation the next time around.
Xipe Totec
(43,888 posts)mastermind
(229 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Aristus
(66,294 posts)You screwed us all over with your witlessness...
Yosemito
(648 posts)The article is anecdotal.
llmart
(15,533 posts)this is a 49-year old, white, privileged guy who lives in a mostly caucasian county who is willing to speak up and admit his vote was wrong. He's probably surrounded by men just like him and may even take some flak for coming out against Trump. He may even be convincing some of them to change their minds. If the Dems decide to impeach him, we'll need people like him to change minds.
We here on DU use anecdotes all the time in our stories. These are stories from the grassroots of this country and they're a pretty important reflection of what's going on around our necks of the woods.
You can find an anecdote for any person in a tiny group of people. You have to show me that this group of people is big.
90% of Trump supporters approve of Donald Trump.
stopbush
(24,393 posts)he would be right back on the tRump express, even as his neighbors and relatives continued to be hurt by tRumps idiocies.
47of74
(18,470 posts)Now they can goddamn well live with the consequences l.
OMGWTF
(3,942 posts)Now that they're not getting paid, but still have to work, I am hoping they'll wake the fk up.
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)Sure applies here! There were many of us who knew what we were going to lose after the 2016 election, but in my wildest dreams I could not have imagined the destruction this man and his administration have done in just 2 years!
Rizen
(707 posts)pretzel logic. At least some people are waking up now.
Pope George Ringo II
(1,896 posts)The incumbent in the White House does not deserve reelection.
Smackdown2019
(1,184 posts)They still drink his koolaid!
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)I still cannot figure out how a perfectly intelligent, kind, thoughtful human being like my brother became such a racist fuck that he supports Trump. He still supports Trump. The support is wearing pretty thin, but he's hanging in there.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Welcome to our reality, idiots. Sorry your children had to go without food and heat for you to wake the eff up. Maybe one day you'll realize you're not smart enough to have children. Or vote.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)Lord and/or the Universe knows that they fucked up really badly, and most if not the overwhelming majority of them harbor racist, sexist and/or xenophobic beliefs... but it won't help us end this national nightmare if we only shame them when they acknowledge their mistake.
Any step made toward enlightenment is still a move in the right direction, even if they are on the proverbial journey of a thousand miles.
trueblue2007
(17,194 posts)Everyone just gotta Hate Trump, Oh yeah they gotta hate Trump.
(Sung to the tune of the song ....Girls just wanna have fun)
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)headline is more true than not
Jake Stern
(3,145 posts)Republicans support/oppose something until it affects them personally.
Same with those Republicans who "support" LGBT rights - 99% of them only did so after a son or daughter or brother or sister came out of the closet.
ooky
(8,908 posts)"status-quo". Anti status quo can be a good thing, unless it also comes with a heaping dose of demonstrated bad character. People like him, they all had plenty of warning that they were voting for a low class piece of shit, and they ignored it. The signs were everywhere, and may as well have been glowing in neon red. And they ignored it.
He got what he voted for. Unfortunately we also got what this stupid ass voted for.
What is going all through me is that all of these clowns who are complaining now waited until their own lives were affected before they would start peeling off from this evil prick. Where were they when the reports of small children being separated from their parents started coming in? I think these people are near as evil as Trump is.