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C Moon

(12,208 posts)
Sun May 10, 2020, 09:48 PM May 2020

My conservative Republican voting in-laws surprised me this afternoon.

We had a Zoom call with the family (all in their own homes), and the father started talking about how good Boris Johnson was for telling the UK citizens to stay at home, watch your distance from others, and wear face masks. Then he said, unlike Trump who is telling the country nothing, and also telling them to get back to work. He is very disappointed in Trump.

We'll see what happens. I just can't see them voting blue.

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My conservative Republican voting in-laws surprised me this afternoon. (Original Post) C Moon May 2020 OP
Maybe you can work on them to get them to sit this one out Salviati May 2020 #1
Some people on the right are starting to realize Trump is doing nothing. ooky May 2020 #2
Dolt45 is doing worse than nothing - he has destroyed the systems that would have helped csziggy May 2020 #8
If the Lincoln Project keeps it up ... fierywoman May 2020 #3
It's people over 65. iemitsu May 2020 #4
They dont have to like Democrats to believe in checks and balances and a functioning Kashkakat v.2.0 May 2020 #5
The loyal opposition. raging moderate May 2020 #6
If they can't vote blue see if you can get them to not vote ... jimlup May 2020 #7
He doesn't have to vote blue. Baitball Blogger May 2020 #9

Salviati

(6,008 posts)
1. Maybe you can work on them to get them to sit this one out
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:05 PM
May 2020

at least on the presidential line, but better the whole election.

ooky

(8,906 posts)
2. Some people on the right are starting to realize Trump is doing nothing.
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:09 PM
May 2020

It's been going on for over three years, it had to sink in sometime. Too bad it took a killing pandemic for people to begin waking up.

csziggy

(34,131 posts)
8. Dolt45 is doing worse than nothing - he has destroyed the systems that would have helped
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:57 PM
May 2020

Alleviate this situation. Dismantling the pandemic response unit, putting incompetents in charge of key agencies such as the CDC, relying on political cronies who know nothing to supervise the planning (Jared? Seriously?), and touting unproven treatments I suspect he set up to make him money.

As you implied, it is not just the pandemic response that has been mishandled, it is every part of government has been systematically taken apart and made ineffective.

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
4. It's people over 65.
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:32 PM
May 2020

It has become so obvious that we have become the target.
None of us want to die for Trump.

Kashkakat v.2.0

(1,752 posts)
5. They dont have to like Democrats to believe in checks and balances and a functioning
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:37 PM
May 2020

two party system.

Im old enough to remember when people typically voted for balance in govt - if it was going too far one way, then theyd vote for the other party.

That was back before Reagan, identity politics, and RW talk radio.

jimlup

(7,968 posts)
7. If they can't vote blue see if you can get them to not vote ...
Sun May 10, 2020, 10:49 PM
May 2020

Or vote without filling in a PROTUS choice....

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