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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump voters were always racist, and Trump set them free.
What is happening is as plain as the nose on our collective faces. Trump voters were always racist, and Trump set them free. We are witness to this daily.
Trump realised early on that the majority of his supporters, disciples and devotees are racist, be it overt, covert or sub-conscious dogmatism, and that they had been faithfully anticipating the day when a populist prejudiced leader was successfully able to challenge the politically correct status quo and seize power from the relative centre ground. They had been waiting for a Trump to come along and not only tell them it's acceptable to give in to their bigotry and just be the repugnant people that they are and have always yearned to be, but to actively encourage them to do so. He has fostered and sanctioned a malign rage, in his base, against anyone who is not just like them brown and black people, foreigners and pretty much every other minority grouping is at risk from his supporters intemperate violence of word and deed. And they are so, so thankful that he has given then this permission to be the hate filled nasty fuckers that they really are, that they fanatically idolise him. They have all worked together, turning him into the commander of an extremist fundamentalist cult movement, and he is both loving it and capitalising on it. It is, after all, what all corrupt and unscrupulous fascists do.
He has given permission to a predominately uneducated, resentful, spiteful and increasingly nativist base that 'the other' is to blame for all their economic and social anxieties, even while, it is evident to anyone with a brain, that this is a distraction tactic, allowing Trump and his ilk to steal everything his cultists own, to line the pockets of himself, his family and his toadies. However, they will never turn on him, as he gives them approval and endorses them gleefully giving into their despicable predispositions. That is why these fools and deluded muckrakers shun any construct of realism (i.e., the real world and facts) that Trump has not directly concocted and sanctioned for them. And, Trump knows it and plays on it.
Duplicity, abhorring one co-hort or another and falsehoods, are embedded in and is the republican ethos in its entirety. Vilifying and denigrating the other are so necessary to the republican identity these days that they wilfully choose to ignore truth, reality, data, and history. This is self-evident, demonstrable and incontestable.
Trump knows that the people who sustain him and his ideology are too idiotic and detestable to not vote against their own best interests. They are racists. Hatred of black and brown people is who they are to the core of their being. They will follow a leader over the edge of a cliff, like a bunch of lemmings, as long as the person they're following continues to give them permission to be the illiberal, bigoted, parochial, petty and narrow-minded shower that they have always been.
Just sayin'
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,700 posts)And all of us are paying the price of that validation.
Bromwell
(123 posts)These people have always been there, always been bigots, right next door. The orange buffoon comes along says its fine to be a racist. THAT is why they love him.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Or he completes them... cause it is a really twisted relationship - like couples who kill..
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)as you have described ... and they needed to be paid attention too. ... but I never envisioned someone like Trump would be doing it. Trump saw they could be used, and took full advantage of it to use them as pawns in his agenda.
Wounded Bear
(58,709 posts)patricia92243
(12,601 posts)Timmygoat
(779 posts)That Trump's father was arrested for keeping his tenants in Maryland in such filthy infested conditions that he was arrested?
Rebl2
(13,551 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,072 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,072 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,072 posts)Soph0571
(9,685 posts)Very pleased to digitally meet you
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Been saying that since the day the coward came down the elevator with his trophy bride on a leash.
"All the closet doors have been opened wide, and all those hiding their racism, bigotry and hatred have come out into the light...and it will take generations to put them back in the closet, or have them simply die off."
This pig is the guru to all these sick, cowardly haters..as he's one of them..they are his cult.
Soph0571
(9,685 posts)dalton99a
(81,578 posts)Fla Dem
(23,743 posts)Skittles
(153,193 posts)they are indeed racist pieces of shit
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)My mother.
Now she 82 and does not follow things like many. But a good woman. Volunteers for Habitat for Humanity in a big way. Not driving nails, obviously, but organizing logistics and supplies. Feeds the homeless twice a week at a church that does not share her beliefs. Hosts a group of international wives in the city because of their husbands jobs or studies.
And was a Trump voter.
But the fear of invading Mexicans who she has never met and the Abortion thing drove her to trump.
I was pleasantly shocked the last time we talked. She brought up politics which is normally a verboten subject for us. Trumps attack on the Democratic Congress women of color was too much. Its like the blinders fell of. We are Southern and she started on a southern old lady polite rant about how trump wanted to bring back the south of her childhood, which she and my long deceased democratic dad hated. Then moved on to his attack on gay folks. She may not agree with their lifestyle but who are we to keep the from living the life they choose! I was taken aback!
She said she may vote for a democrat, depending on who it is. But will never again vote for trump!
This is not a woman getting senile. She is sharper than I. But something snapped. Ive been optimistic ever since.
Yeah, its one person. But its my mother! She cant be the only one. Suburban women are not going for this shit. It will not increase his voters.