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Pluvious

(4,315 posts)
Sun Aug 21, 2016, 01:23 PM Aug 2016

Washington Post: Former supporters describe their ‘last straw’ when it came to Trump

Interesting to see the WP sharing what the younger crowd on Reddit think of tRump now...


Reddit users tend to be skeptical of religion and big supporters of science — communities for atheism and science are among the site's largest, with over 2 million and 12 million members, respectively. That showed in many of the answers

"I was on the fence until he said global warming was a hoax," WubbaLubbaDubStep said.

"I was excited about having a republican candidate who wasn't a far right wing religious zealot," Ahoya21 said. "Then he picked Pence as a VP and I thought, well f*** I may actually have to vote for Clinton."


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/08/13/former-supporters-describe-their-last-straw-when-it-came-to-trump/
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Washington Post: Former supporters describe their ‘last straw’ when it came to Trump (Original Post) Pluvious Aug 2016 OP
Reading the reasons prvided a chuckle in this case - 3catwoman3 Aug 2016 #1

3catwoman3

(24,041 posts)
1. Reading the reasons prvided a chuckle in this case -
Sun Aug 21, 2016, 02:13 PM
Aug 2016

"hinySh4ky pointed to his discovery of the Johnson campaign as a turning point. "Finding out there was an alternative that wasn't hillary. #FEELTHEJOHNSON".

(I added the bolding - might wanna re-think that hashtag)

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