I hate Trump, but I get why a huge part of middle America loves him

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I loathe Biden, but I truly don't understand how Trump appeals to anyone.

He's blatantly amoral (but the evangelical Christians and many Catholics love him), he's had everything handed to him and never had to struggle (not at all like working Americans), and he's physically ugly (looks matter in politics, generally).

It totally boggles my mind how Trump appeals to anyone.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. First, I’m not voting for Trump or donating to his campaign because Jan. 6th was an attempted coup and I cannot support the party attempting to overthrow democracy.

But OP, I get it and I agree with you generally. What is particularly disgusting to me is the gaslighting we get from the Democrats. It’s as if they think people are stupid.

No, crime isn’t down. We all live it. Just because you instruct police not to report crimes doesn’t mean it’s down in reality. I know more people who have experienced crime in the past four years than the previous twenty combined.

No, immigration isn’t a non-issue. We can all see the sharp increase in homelessness under Biden over the past four years. My previously safe neighborhood now has serious problems with homelessness. And these are folks who are out of their minds on drugs, victimized by a raging drug trafficking organization.

No, I’m not going to pretend that sex-based differences do not exist and that hard fought safe spaces that women have literally died to earn should be sacrificed to appease the religious beliefs of natal males. Female bodies have been literally killed — are still disproportionately killed — and yet you want to pretend all of that history has disappeared because some privileged males want to destroy sex-based rights? GTFO.

Stop the gaslighting, Democrats. It’s ridiculous.

Typical low IQ MAGA take.

Typical dim gaslighting from progressives with no ability to substantively address issues.

You are why Trump will win.

Shut it. You’re not fighting “progressives.” You’re fighting party-line Democrats who themselves hate the progressive wing of the party.

It doesn’t matter. The refusal to deal with what people across the country are experiencing and living (and instead gaslighting them) is going to cost Democrats the election.

Democrats depend on voter turnout to win. That happens when people feel heard and feel like their reality is at least seen. The Democrats aren’t doing that now and instead going all out with gaslighting. It’s a failing strategy.

What is Trump doing to deal with what I am experiencing and living? All I hear from him are petty insults and complaining about how the world is unfair to him.

He is doing literally nothing. He will not accomplish anything, consistent with his prior administration.

But what he isn’t doing is telling people to pretend that their reality isn’t what they are experiencing. He isn’t telling people that crime is down (when people experience a sharp uptick in crime), he isn’t telling them that inflation is down when everybody can compare grocery costs, he isn’t telling people that their daughters should shut up and be happy with lose to biological boys, he isn’t telling people that unconditional support for Israel is bringing peace to the Middle East, he isn’t telling people that just a few more billion dollars will stop the war in Ukraine.

He’s got dementia, he is incompetent, he is a malignant narcissist, and genuinely a terrible person. But he is not asking people to ignore their own lived experiences and reality. And that is why he is resonating.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. First, I’m not voting for Trump or donating to his campaign because Jan. 6th was an attempted coup and I cannot support the party attempting to overthrow democracy.

But OP, I get it and I agree with you generally. What is particularly disgusting to me is the gaslighting we get from the Democrats. It’s as if they think people are stupid.

No, crime isn’t down. We all live it. Just because you instruct police not to report crimes doesn’t mean it’s down in reality. I know more people who have experienced crime in the past four years than the previous twenty combined.

No, immigration isn’t a non-issue. We can all see the sharp increase in homelessness under Biden over the past four years. My previously safe neighborhood now has serious problems with homelessness. And these are folks who are out of their minds on drugs, victimized by a raging drug trafficking organization.

No, I’m not going to pretend that sex-based differences do not exist and that hard fought safe spaces that women have literally died to earn should be sacrificed to appease the religious beliefs of natal males. Female bodies have been literally killed — are still disproportionately killed — and yet you want to pretend all of that history has disappeared because some privileged males want to destroy sex-based rights? GTFO.

Stop the gaslighting, Democrats. It’s ridiculous.

Typical low IQ MAGA take.

Typical dim gaslighting from progressives with no ability to substantively address issues.

You are why Trump will win.

Shut it. You’re not fighting “progressives.” You’re fighting party-line Democrats who themselves hate the progressive wing of the party.

It doesn’t matter. The refusal to deal with what people across the country are experiencing and living (and instead gaslighting them) is going to cost Democrats the election.

Democrats depend on voter turnout to win. That happens when people feel heard and feel like their reality is at least seen. The Democrats aren’t doing that now and instead going all out with gaslighting. It’s a failing strategy.

What is Trump doing to deal with what I am experiencing and living? All I hear from him are petty insults and complaining about how the world is unfair to him.

He is doing literally nothing. He will not accomplish anything, consistent with his prior administration.

But what he isn’t doing is telling people to pretend that their reality isn’t what they are experiencing. He isn’t telling people that crime is down (when people experience a sharp uptick in crime), he isn’t telling them that inflation is down when everybody can compare grocery costs, he isn’t telling people that their daughters should shut up and be happy with lose to biological boys, he isn’t telling people that unconditional support for Israel is bringing peace to the Middle East, he isn’t telling people that just a few more billion dollars will stop the war in Ukraine.

He’s got dementia, he is incompetent, he is a malignant narcissist, and genuinely a terrible person. But he is not asking people to ignore their own lived experiences and reality. And that is why he is resonating.

I agree with some of what you are saying...but crime is down in most places (but sadly not DC) and inflation is down (I just bought 18 eggs for $1.99 when we all remember they were $6 for a dozen at the peak; gas is now under $3/gallon in many places; airfares were definitely cheaper this past holiday season compared to prior two years). Trump also offers unconditional support for Israel, but I don't hear much foreign policy.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a typical educated and wealthy DC-area striver. Atheist, support women's right to choose, value the diversity of cultures in this world, etc. I wouldn't say no to a tax cut, lol. I'm going to be good whoever gets elected.

We gotta face facts, though. Most of America is not like DC. It's hugely white, under-educated, under-employed people, who have been truly screwed over by progressive policies.

They have to compete with millions upon millions of lower cost illegal migrants flooding across the borders. They have been penalized by the color of their skin when applying to college and jobs. Suicide, depression, opioids, wars they have to fight and die in...it has gotten quite bad.

Once upon a time, democrats valued this massive part of America. Do they still? Can they?

Your post suggests otherwise.

I just came to say the same 😀. It should say “poorly educated”.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. First, I’m not voting for Trump or donating to his campaign because Jan. 6th was an attempted coup and I cannot support the party attempting to overthrow democracy.

But OP, I get it and I agree with you generally. What is particularly disgusting to me is the gaslighting we get from the Democrats. It’s as if they think people are stupid.

No, crime isn’t down. We all live it. Just because you instruct police not to report crimes doesn’t mean it’s down in reality. I know more people who have experienced crime in the past four years than the previous twenty combined.

No, immigration isn’t a non-issue. We can all see the sharp increase in homelessness under Biden over the past four years. My previously safe neighborhood now has serious problems with homelessness. And these are folks who are out of their minds on drugs, victimized by a raging drug trafficking organization.

No, I’m not going to pretend that sex-based differences do not exist and that hard fought safe spaces that women have literally died to earn should be sacrificed to appease the religious beliefs of natal males. Female bodies have been literally killed — are still disproportionately killed — and yet you want to pretend all of that history has disappeared because some privileged males want to destroy sex-based rights? GTFO.

Stop the gaslighting, Democrats. It’s ridiculous.

Typical low IQ MAGA take.

Typical dim gaslighting from progressives with no ability to substantively address issues.

You are why Trump will win.

Shut it. You’re not fighting “progressives.” You’re fighting party-line Democrats who themselves hate the progressive wing of the party.

It doesn’t matter. The refusal to deal with what people across the country are experiencing and living (and instead gaslighting them) is going to cost Democrats the election.

Democrats depend on voter turnout to win. That happens when people feel heard and feel like their reality is at least seen. The Democrats aren’t doing that now and instead going all out with gaslighting. It’s a failing strategy.

What is Trump doing to deal with what I am experiencing and living? All I hear from him are petty insults and complaining about how the world is unfair to him.

He is doing literally nothing. He will not accomplish anything, consistent with his prior administration.

But what he isn’t doing is telling people to pretend that their reality isn’t what they are experiencing. He isn’t telling people that crime is down (when people experience a sharp uptick in crime), he isn’t telling them that inflation is down when everybody can compare grocery costs, he isn’t telling people that their daughters should shut up and be happy with lose to biological boys, he isn’t telling people that unconditional support for Israel is bringing peace to the Middle East, he isn’t telling people that just a few more billion dollars will stop the war in Ukraine.

He’s got dementia, he is incompetent, he is a malignant narcissist, and genuinely a terrible person. But he is not asking people to ignore their own lived experiences and reality. And that is why he is resonating.

He’s telling me that he actually won the 2020 election. Hes telling me he did a great job handling COVID. Hes telling me he had a great economic record. He’s telling me he has a plan to cut my health care costs. Hes telling me that DEI is the reason for Boeings mess-ups. He’s telling me has plans to cut inflation. Seems like a lot of asking me to ignore my own lived experience and reality.

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Anonymous wrote:If businesses would stop hiring undocumented immigrants, they wouldn't come.

That's just not true.
And, you realize that both the Chicago and NY mayors are wanting to fast track work permits for people in their cities that have entered illegally?
Maybe tell them to stop.

People are coming here and are living off perks given to them by blue cities. They are getting housing, health care, education, free lunch for kids, and other goods from NGOs. And, then we have our own Veteran's Administration funding care for illegal immigrants when our own veterans cannot get the help they need. https://nypost.com/2024/01/10/news/va-ripped-for-reimbursing-migrant-treatment-as-veterans-wait/

Then, there is the rampant theft by illegal migrants in many cities. I am sure these migrants need thousands of dollar of clothing from Macy's!
https://nypost.com/2024/01/20/news/group-of-newly-arrived-migrants-allegedly-behind-string-of-burglaries-plaguing-chicago-suburb-police/

People will keep coming as long as they think they can get in. And, right now, they can.

They are fast tracking them so they can at least be productive. Otherwise, they will just starve in the streets. Or else the public will have to support them. At least this way, they can earn some money and pay into the tax system. What is your alternative, given they come regardless of who is president?

Trump voters would rather these people be placed into concentration camps along the Mexican border. If they stay in the hopes they’ll get a fair shake until international laws, then they deserve whatever parade of horribles that happens to them there.

Nope we want them to move into the neighborhoods, homes and private schools of white progressive elites.

This really needs to happen. They are the most able to absorb the burden. To flood middle class areas with the burden is immoral. The wealthy urban elites need to open their homes, schools, hospitals, private schools, doctors and neighborhoods to these people.

There is anplan to achieve this goal. Russians were able to achieve this in 2017 by placing poor uneducated marginalised population in the homes of wealthy people, de-privatised privately held real estates and gave housing to everyone equally. This is going to happen in US too. No one need vacation or second home when we can house several immigrant families in it. No ine need to live in 6,00 sq ft house that can house 5-6 families.

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Anonymous wrote:If businesses would stop hiring undocumented immigrants, they wouldn't come.

That's just not true.
And, you realize that both the Chicago and NY mayors are wanting to fast track work permits for people in their cities that have entered illegally?
Maybe tell them to stop.

People are coming here and are living off perks given to them by blue cities. They are getting housing, health care, education, free lunch for kids, and other goods from NGOs. And, then we have our own Veteran's Administration funding care for illegal immigrants when our own veterans cannot get the help they need. https://nypost.com/2024/01/10/news/va-ripped-for-reimbursing-migrant-treatment-as-veterans-wait/

Then, there is the rampant theft by illegal migrants in many cities. I am sure these migrants need thousands of dollar of clothing from Macy's!
https://nypost.com/2024/01/20/news/group-of-newly-arrived-migrants-allegedly-behind-string-of-burglaries-plaguing-chicago-suburb-police/

People will keep coming as long as they think they can get in. And, right now, they can.

They are fast tracking them so they can at least be productive. Otherwise, they will just starve in the streets. Or else the public will have to support them. At least this way, they can earn some money and pay into the tax system. What is your alternative, given they come regardless of who is president?

Trump voters would rather these people be placed into concentration camps along the Mexican border. If they stay in the hopes they’ll get a fair shake until international laws, then they deserve whatever parade of horribles that happens to them there.

Nope we want them to move into the neighborhoods, homes and private schools of white progressive elites.

This really needs to happen. They are the most able to absorb the burden. To flood middle class areas with the burden is immoral. The wealthy urban elites need to open their homes, schools, hospitals, private schools, doctors and neighborhoods to these people.

There is anplan to achieve this goal. Russians were able to achieve this in 2017 by placing poor uneducated marginalised population in the homes of wealthy people, de-privatised privately held real estates and gave housing to everyone equally. This is going to happen in US too. No one need vacation or second home when we can house several immigrant families in it. No ine need to live in 6,00 sq ft house that can house 5-6 families.

NP. This is some next-level paranoid stuff—where are you guys getting these crazy ideas? Maybe broaden your media sources a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. First, I’m not voting for Trump or donating to his campaign because Jan. 6th was an attempted coup and I cannot support the party attempting to overthrow democracy.

But OP, I get it and I agree with you generally. What is particularly disgusting to me is the gaslighting we get from the Democrats. It’s as if they think people are stupid.

No, crime isn’t down. We all live it. Just because you instruct police not to report crimes doesn’t mean it’s down in reality. I know more people who have experienced crime in the past four years than the previous twenty combined.

No, immigration isn’t a non-issue. We can all see the sharp increase in homelessness under Biden over the past four years. My previously safe neighborhood now has serious problems with homelessness. And these are folks who are out of their minds on drugs, victimized by a raging drug trafficking organization.

No, I’m not going to pretend that sex-based differences do not exist and that hard fought safe spaces that women have literally died to earn should be sacrificed to appease the religious beliefs of natal males. Female bodies have been literally killed — are still disproportionately killed — and yet you want to pretend all of that history has disappeared because some privileged males want to destroy sex-based rights? GTFO.

Stop the gaslighting, Democrats. It’s ridiculous.

Typical low IQ MAGA take.

Typical dim gaslighting from progressives with no ability to substantively address issues.

You are why Trump will win.

Shut it. You’re not fighting “progressives.” You’re fighting party-line Democrats who themselves hate the progressive wing of the party.

It doesn’t matter. The refusal to deal with what people across the country are experiencing and living (and instead gaslighting them) is going to cost Democrats the election.

Democrats depend on voter turnout to win. That happens when people feel heard and feel like their reality is at least seen. The Democrats aren’t doing that now and instead going all out with gaslighting. It’s a failing strategy.

What is Trump doing to deal with what I am experiencing and living? All I hear from him are petty insults and complaining about how the world is unfair to him.

He is doing literally nothing. He will not accomplish anything, consistent with his prior administration.

But what he isn’t doing is telling people to pretend that their reality isn’t what they are experiencing. He isn’t telling people that crime is down (when people experience a sharp uptick in crime), he isn’t telling them that inflation is down when everybody can compare grocery costs, he isn’t telling people that their daughters should shut up and be happy with lose to biological boys, he isn’t telling people that unconditional support for Israel is bringing peace to the Middle East, he isn’t telling people that just a few more billion dollars will stop the war in Ukraine.

He’s got dementia, he is incompetent, he is a malignant narcissist, and genuinely a terrible person. But he is not asking people to ignore their own lived experiences and reality. And that is why he is resonating.

I agree with some of what you are saying...but crime is down in most places (but sadly not DC) and inflation is down (I just bought 18 eggs for $1.99 when we all remember they were $6 for a dozen at the peak; gas is now under $3/gallon in many places; airfares were definitely cheaper this past holiday season compared to prior two years). Trump also offers unconditional support for Israel, but I don't hear much foreign policy.

Look, I don’t know what to tell you. I am a Democrat who predicted that Trump would win in spring of 2016 because I saw that he was emotionally resonating with people who felt gaslit and unheard by the Democrats. I posted as much in DCUM and was mocked for it back then. Now I see the Democrats making the same mistake here, telling people that they aren’t experiencing what they clearly are experiencing. Trump is an awful, terrible person who is a direct threat to democracy and yet at this point I think he is going to win, unless his dementia becomes too much to hide. It’s extremely depressing.

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Progressives should form their own party and stop hijacking the democrats. Letting Bernie run in the democratic primary was such a fatal mistake.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm reading this book right now When McKinsey Comes to Town. McKinsey's consultants, largely made up on uber elitists from ivy league schools who live on the coasts, have for years been the architects of wealth inequality. McKinsey consultants were the ones who came up with idea that CEOs needed to make 300x the average worker. It was McKinsey consultants who constantly pushed the idea of off shoring and downsizing that have gutted manufacturing and many middle class jobs. McKinsey consultants are also the ones who also worked for the FDA while simultaneously consulting for Purdue to supercharge sales of opioids. And who paid the price and had their families and lives ruined? All of the poor in those areas the disgusting elitists call flyover country. In another example, McKisney also consulted for the Chinese CCP on artificial island building in the South China Sea while working for the US department of defense. And who'll be sent into the meat grinder when there's a conflict in the SCS? All of the poor people and their kids. There are just so many examples in the book - it's so disturbing.

And people wonder why huge swaths of America hate the liberal costal elitists. I mean just look how many McKinsey almuni infect our govt like virus (Pete Buttgeig, Lael Brainard, etc.). Trump has appeal because he isn't from the same swamp producing and employing the likes of McKinsey consultsnts that have been ruining the country for the last 50 years and creating massive wealth inequality. It's largely the elite college educated, urban Democrats who choose to go work for companies like McKinsey, Wall St. etc. that have been gutting their jobs and destroying the livelihood of the middle class.

You mean, the same McKinsey that Trump has hired on many occasions? I mean...no...it can't be.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/us/mckinsey-ICE-immigration.html
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-world-health-organization-china-kushner-mckinsey-coronavirus-task-force-984437/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-hires-mckinsey-to-evaluate-student-loan-portfolio-11556728035

Oh please...try looking up how many McKinsey consultants Biden, Obama all the way down to Clinton have had in advising their cabinets or their alumni from McKinsey they've appointed to govt positions.

It's really not hard to understand - THE ENTIRE SWAMP is corrupted from top to bottom with corporate interests, lobbyists for those corporate interests, and consultants playing the US govt like a fiddle for those corporate interests. It's entirely laughable you think it is GOP only when the lobbyists and consulting firms destroying the foundations of our country are liberal elite university trained and educated.

You're basically insinuating that Yale, Princeton, Harvard, etc..only produce Republicans who go work for terrible firms like McKinsey. That's absolutely false. Who was in office again during peak of the opioid epidemic? That's right, Obama was. And his govt was filled with McKinsey people pulling the string behind the scenes getting Americans addicted to opioids.

And you wonder why Americans are so pissed at the govt when the entire system has been corrupted by regulatory and special interest capture? Whether you like it or not, Trump is able to tap into that anger. People in the middle of the country earning $12 per hour who were laid off because some Harvard University grad working for a consulting firm came up with the brilliant plan for cost cutting to earn fees for their firm identify with Trump who says he will torch the swamp more so than Dems who offer more of the same.

Hey, PP said Trump supporters hate the elites that work at McKinsey and Trump is out to correct that. Just pointing out that Trump uses McKinsey all the time.

I mean, how can you write your screed and defend Trump when Trump hires McKinsey on many occasions and will continue to do so.

SHE IS NOT DEFENDING TRUMP. You are an unfunny goddamned joke! How do you not see this?

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Anonymous wrote:People are so simple and so gullible. This guy has been this same selfish bigoted corrupt idiot for a full decade. How can anyone listen to him for a minute and believe “He is the only one who really cares about me!”

Is railing against that sentiment doing more to secure a Biden win? Jesus Christ.

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Anonymous wrote:NP. First, I’m not voting for Trump or donating to his campaign because Jan. 6th was an attempted coup and I cannot support the party attempting to overthrow democracy.

But OP, I get it and I agree with you generally. What is particularly disgusting to me is the gaslighting we get from the Democrats. It’s as if they think people are stupid.

No, crime isn’t down. We all live it. Just because you instruct police not to report crimes doesn’t mean it’s down in reality. I know more people who have experienced crime in the past four years than the previous twenty combined.

No, immigration isn’t a non-issue. We can all see the sharp increase in homelessness under Biden over the past four years. My previously safe neighborhood now has serious problems with homelessness. And these are folks who are out of their minds on drugs, victimized by a raging drug trafficking organization.

No, I’m not going to pretend that sex-based differences do not exist and that hard fought safe spaces that women have literally died to earn should be sacrificed to appease the religious beliefs of natal males. Female bodies have been literally killed — are still disproportionately killed — and yet you want to pretend all of that history has disappeared because some privileged males want to destroy sex-based rights? GTFO.

Stop the gaslighting, Democrats. It’s ridiculous.

Typical low IQ MAGA take.

Typical dim gaslighting from progressives with no ability to substantively address issues.

You are why Trump will win.

Shut it. You’re not fighting “progressives.” You’re fighting party-line Democrats who themselves hate the progressive wing of the party.

It doesn’t matter. The refusal to deal with what people across the country are experiencing and living (and instead gaslighting them) is going to cost Democrats the election.

Democrats depend on voter turnout to win. That happens when people feel heard and feel like their reality is at least seen. The Democrats aren’t doing that now and instead going all out with gaslighting. It’s a failing strategy.

What is Trump doing to deal with what I am experiencing and living? All I hear from him are petty insults and complaining about how the world is unfair to him.

He is doing literally nothing. He will not accomplish anything, consistent with his prior administration.

But what he isn’t doing is telling people to pretend that their reality isn’t what they are experiencing. He isn’t telling people that crime is down (when people experience a sharp uptick in crime), he isn’t telling them that inflation is down when everybody can compare grocery costs, he isn’t telling people that their daughters should shut up and be happy with lose to biological boys, he isn’t telling people that unconditional support for Israel is bringing peace to the Middle East, he isn’t telling people that just a few more billion dollars will stop the war in Ukraine.

He’s got dementia, he is incompetent, he is a malignant narcissist, and genuinely a terrible person. But he is not asking people to ignore their own lived experiences and reality. And that is why he is resonating.

I agree with some of what you are saying...but crime is down in most places (but sadly not DC) and inflation is down (I just bought 18 eggs for $1.99 when we all remember they were $6 for a dozen at the peak; gas is now under $3/gallon in many places; airfares were definitely cheaper this past holiday season compared to prior two years). Trump also offers unconditional support for Israel, but I don't hear much foreign policy.

Laughable. A little over a year ago Democrats were trying to blame an impending economic hard landing on Jerome Powell 'a GOP appointed chair's (even though Biden re-hired him). Now that the Fed has gotten inflation tamed, Dems try to give Biden credit. Complete insanity, you can't have it both ways. The voters aren't stupid. The Fed is the single biggest reason inflation is coming back down, and Biden is a big reason why inflation went up for so long because of his stupid policies that dumped more money into the economy than was necessary, thereby exacerbating inflation. No one is going to give Biden credit on inflation when it is the Fed and Biden has made it worse.

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What is Joe's plan for a 2nd term? He hasn't told us.
All I have heard him talk about is MAGA this and MAGA that and abortion. What exactly is he running on?

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Anonymous wrote:NP. First, I’m not voting for Trump or donating to his campaign because Jan. 6th was an attempted coup and I cannot support the party attempting to overthrow democracy.

But OP, I get it and I agree with you generally. What is particularly disgusting to me is the gaslighting we get from the Democrats. It’s as if they think people are stupid.

No, crime isn’t down. We all live it. Just because you instruct police not to report crimes doesn’t mean it’s down in reality. I know more people who have experienced crime in the past four years than the previous twenty combined.

No, immigration isn’t a non-issue. We can all see the sharp increase in homelessness under Biden over the past four years. My previously safe neighborhood now has serious problems with homelessness. And these are folks who are out of their minds on drugs, victimized by a raging drug trafficking organization.

No, I’m not going to pretend that sex-based differences do not exist and that hard fought safe spaces that women have literally died to earn should be sacrificed to appease the religious beliefs of natal males. Female bodies have been literally killed — are still disproportionately killed — and yet you want to pretend all of that history has disappeared because some privileged males want to destroy sex-based rights? GTFO.

Stop the gaslighting, Democrats. It’s ridiculous.

Typical low IQ MAGA take.

Typical dim gaslighting from progressives with no ability to substantively address issues.

You are why Trump will win.

Shut it. You’re not fighting “progressives.” You’re fighting party-line Democrats who themselves hate the progressive wing of the party.

It doesn’t matter. The refusal to deal with what people across the country are experiencing and living (and instead gaslighting them) is going to cost Democrats the election.

Democrats depend on voter turnout to win. That happens when people feel heard and feel like their reality is at least seen. The Democrats aren’t doing that now and instead going all out with gaslighting. It’s a failing strategy.

What is Trump doing to deal with what I am experiencing and living? All I hear from him are petty insults and complaining about how the world is unfair to him.

He is doing literally nothing. He will not accomplish anything, consistent with his prior administration.

But what he isn’t doing is telling people to pretend that their reality isn’t what they are experiencing. He isn’t telling people that crime is down (when people experience a sharp uptick in crime), he isn’t telling them that inflation is down when everybody can compare grocery costs, he isn’t telling people that their daughters should shut up and be happy with lose to biological boys, he isn’t telling people that unconditional support for Israel is bringing peace to the Middle East, he isn’t telling people that just a few more billion dollars will stop the war in Ukraine.

He’s got dementia, he is incompetent, he is a malignant narcissist, and genuinely a terrible person. But he is not asking people to ignore their own lived experiences and reality. And that is why he is resonating.

He’s telling me that he actually won the 2020 election. Hes telling me he did a great job handling COVID. Hes telling me he had a great economic record. He’s telling me he has a plan to cut my health care costs. Hes telling me that DEI is the reason for Boeings mess-ups. He’s telling me has plans to cut inflation. Seems like a lot of asking me to ignore my own lived experience and reality.

You are an excellent example of why the Democrats are going to lose, because you have entirely missed the point. Everything you list above, every single item, is in the realm of rhetoric not reality. Trump’s voters don’t believe Trump handled COVID well. They don’t believe he has a great economic plan. They don’t believe all the ridiculous and frankly obviously dementia-driven nonsense that he says. You think his voters actually believe him? My goodness. You have the luxury of parsing out the nonsense that Trump spews and being offended by it because you aren’t particularly impacted by inflation, crime, job losses, potential military action in the Middle East, etc. You can look at Trump and object to his obvious dementia-driven ravings because you aren’t worried about day to day life.

Objecting to rhetoric is a luxury that Trump’s voters don’t think they have. And this is just such a cluelessness gap with the Democrats that they are going to sleepwalk into yet another loss to Trump. I find it unbelievable.

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Anonymous wrote:Trump's not going to win. He's a former president who barely broke 50% in NH.

If you seeing the breakdown, many cross party voter go for Nikki.

Also in NH, the democratic primary vote do no count this time.