Why are there so few Trump signs in DC, given all the conservatives who live and work here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fellow Trump supporter here. Part of it was watching all of our liberal friends cry and pearl-clutch after the last election. The way they talked, they just couldn't understand why anyone would vote for Trump. Since then, the dialogue has only deteriorated. Jumps straight to name-calling and snarling. Your education, morals and character are called into question (even though I have posted numerous citations in DCUM threads that show that Republicans are just as (or more) informed than Democrats on a wide variety of topics, including science, the Constitution, US history, etc. etc.) There is basically no convincing people (so no reason for a sign) and no reason to risk property damage from all of the enlightened liberals in our area.

This.
Highly educated, female. Don't need the name-calling etc.--gets old really fast. If people want to discuss the specifics of a specific policy or proposal based on facts and evidence, I'll all in. But the broad-brush stuff--forget it. Like pp who has done all of the pro bono work (BRAVO!), I'll stick to walking the walk instead of talking the talk.

Agree. I don’t like or respect Trump on a personal level but I support most of his policies. My political beliefs certainly align more closely with his than Biden’s and especially Harris’s. Given some of the vitriol I see in the media on Facebook, etc., I’d rather not open myself up debate or worse by openly supporting Trump.

DH’s business partner is black and he early voted for Trump. I have at least two friends who voted for Hillary in 2016 and are now Trump supporters. I think the constant vitriol, cancel culture with complete intolerance for differing views is making for a lot of silent Trump supporters and I think the Dems will be surprised by the election results.

Will you cite the policies he has acted on that you support? Which policies do you stand behind with your vote for someone you acknowledge is not worthy of your respect? And are they important enough to take all the bad with it? Are they truly things that would not have happened with a different president?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because most conservatives live in VA.

If you go to Navy Yard, where all these dipshts have cloistered themselves (because the entire city hates them and get turned down on tinder all the time) you will see Trump supporters and staff in the wild. They’re a bleach blond species devoid of intelligence. While some have attractive plumage, they’re true nature is one of malice and ignorance. While they mainly associate with low intelligence lemmings out in conservative areas of in the forest, in the urban locale of Washington they are so hated they simply huddle together like penguins guarding their eggs in the frozen tundra of Antarctica. Just kidding.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I already voted for Trump. Live in CCDC. No way would I put up a Trump sign on my lawn. No way. Lol. This place is so intolerable. Many of my neighbors have the virtue signaling signs. Lots have BLM signs too. I often smile and laugh inside knowing I’d filed over the last few years at least a dozen pro Bono civil rights cases against DC for falsely claiming my black clients assaulted a police officer after the cops jacked them up. In several cases I got them a decent settlement. I also assisted dozens of poor black folks in landlord tenant disputes. So I show up. I don’t need to put fake posters out even though many of these people have generational wealth and never thought of black people much before.

Anyway. I think Trump is doing a fine job. Really.

The last sentence doesn't track to me considering how he has inflamed the conflict between BLM and police. How do you rationalize that in your mind?

Conservative bubble of lies. WSJ, Fox, DC Examiner, NY Post, Daily Caller, Facebook all play down the crimes and autocratic slide that are happening.



Lots of the replies here are of the form “I know this secret Trump voter who’s afraid to say they voted for Trump.”
That’s the point of the thread, right? WHY are people unable to publicly justify voting for Trump? Why do they have to live in a safe space, separate from facts and reality, to support this president?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of black women trump supporters and gay trump supporters

Are you black? Because I am a black woman and I don't know any black women who support Trump and I suspect I know more black women than you do! I have black women friends who, prior to Trump, were Republican (now they identify as independents) so my circles are not echo zones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fellow Trump supporter here. Part of it was watching all of our liberal friends cry and pearl-clutch after the last election. The way they talked, they just couldn't understand why anyone would vote for Trump. Since then, the dialogue has only deteriorated. Jumps straight to name-calling and snarling. Your education, morals and character are called into question (even though I have posted numerous citations in DCUM threads that show that Republicans are just as (or more) informed than Democrats on a wide variety of topics, including science, the Constitution, US history, etc. etc.) There is basically no convincing people (so no reason for a sign) and no reason to risk property damage from all of the enlightened liberals in our area.

This.
Highly educated, female. Don't need the name-calling etc.--gets old really fast. If people want to discuss the specifics of a specific policy or proposal based on facts and evidence, I'll all in. But the broad-brush stuff--forget it. Like pp who has done all of the pro bono work (BRAVO!), I'll stick to walking the walk instead of talking the talk.

Agree. I don’t like or respect Trump on a personal level but I support most of his policies. My political beliefs certainly align more closely with his than Biden’s and especially Harris’s. Given some of the vitriol I see in the media on Facebook, etc., I’d rather not open myself up debate or worse by openly supporting Trump.

DH’s business partner is black and he early voted for Trump. I have at least two friends who voted for Hillary in 2016 and are now Trump supporters. I think the constant vitriol, cancel culture with complete intolerance for differing views is making for a lot of silent Trump supporters and I think the Dems will be surprised by the election results.

Will you cite the policies he has acted on that you support? Which policies do you stand behind with your vote for someone you acknowledge is not worthy of your respect? And are they important enough to take all the bad with it? Are they truly things that would not have happened with a different president?

Not the PP but here you go:
-- Cut taxes on the wealthy, businesses, those doing real estate development, etc. Biggly.
-- Trillions to businesses to get them out of the bad debt bubble that has accumulated over the past decade. We can call it market stabilization during a pandemic but it really bailed out corporations that gorged themselves on cheap credit. Kind of like my cousin who grabs every teaser deal on a credit card and hopes his parents will bail him out again. Because that why we have a federal reserve - to bail out companies.
-- Get rid of environmental regulations to the benefit of polluting industries. When the regulation can't be eliminated, just stop enforcement.
-- Did I mention the tax cuts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I already voted for Trump. Live in CCDC. No way would I put up a Trump sign on my lawn. No way. Lol. This place is so intolerable. Many of my neighbors have the virtue signaling signs. Lots have BLM signs too. I often smile and laugh inside knowing I’d filed over the last few years at least a dozen pro Bono civil rights cases against DC for falsely claiming my black clients assaulted a police officer after the cops jacked them up. In several cases I got them a decent settlement. I also assisted dozens of poor black folks in landlord tenant disputes. So I show up. I don’t need to put fake posters out even though many of these people have generational wealth and never thought of black people much before.

Anyway. I think Trump is doing a fine job. Really.

+1 It's going to be close

+2, no way I’d put a sign out, so my house and cars can be vandalized!

This forum is FILLED with posts by people literally BRAGGING about how they key cars with Trump bumperstickers or would throw rocks through the windows of houses in their neighborhoods that put up a Trump sign.

And you’re asking “why” there aren’t any Trump signs???

You’re either a troll or you’re as dumb as post.

+3. People have gone completely around the bend because Trump. Just look at the climate here. People routinely advise divorce, cutting off family members or friends, and having Trump supporters fired from their jobs. It’s nuts and extremely toxic. One hopes the fever breaks soon.

[Anonymous]

Trump is getting only 4% of the black vote.

lol No, you do not know any black person that's voting for Trump and even if you do, he ate one into black food or make an enrode so please stop acting like he is.

[Anonymous]

Y'all like to hype up the rappers that are supporting Trump, when I know for a fact none of y'all ever listened to or had any positive thought about Lil Wayne, Ice Cube or 50 Cent, prior to this.

[Anonymous]

Oh and by the way, the rappers that you tout that support Trump, many of them are misogynist, anti-Semitic and not really the brightest people out there. But hey if it's a black person, your throat to have that because that leaves gives you cover for your racism.

[Anonymous]

MAGAs are stupid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I already voted for Trump. Live in CCDC. No way would I put up a Trump sign on my lawn. No way. Lol. This place is so intolerable. Many of my neighbors have the virtue signaling signs. Lots have BLM signs too. I often smile and laugh inside knowing I’d filed over the last few years at least a dozen pro Bono civil rights cases against DC for falsely claiming my black clients assaulted a police officer after the cops jacked them up. In several cases I got them a decent settlement. I also assisted dozens of poor black folks in landlord tenant disputes. So I show up. I don’t need to put fake posters out even though many of these people have generational wealth and never thought of black people much before.

Anyway. I think Trump is doing a fine job. Really.

+1 It's going to be close

+2, no way I’d put a sign out, so my house and cars can be vandalized!

This forum is FILLED with posts by people literally BRAGGING about how they key cars with Trump bumperstickers or would throw rocks through the windows of houses in their neighborhoods that put up a Trump sign.

And you’re asking “why” there aren’t any Trump signs???

You’re either a troll or you’re as dumb as post.

+3. People have gone completely around the bend because Trump. Just look at the climate here. People routinely advise divorce, cutting off family members or friends, and having Trump supporters fired from their jobs. It’s nuts and extremely toxic. One hopes the fever breaks soon.

“People routinely advise divorce, cutting off family members, and having Mussolini/Franco/Pinochet/Castro/Tito supporters fired from their jobs.”

Correct. Just like the supporters of other autocrats who have harmed people, supporters of Trump should expect similar lack of respect.



Back to point of thread:

WHY can’t Trump supporters justify their values? Why are they unable to defend themselves in public?

That’s the key question. And it comes down to defending the indefensible.

What’s great about living in DC is being surrounded by a lot of DC citizens who are educated about life and politics and force Trump supporters to justify their poor decisions. Which they can’t.

It’s nice to be a DC citizen.

[Anonymous]

Because they don't wish to have their personal property stolen and/or vandalized. They are certainly there though.

[Anonymous]

I can flip this question around and ask the same thing for Biden supporters in Mississippi.

In states that tend to have high Cook PVIs for either Democrats or Republicans, it is very difficult for those on the opposite end of the spectrum to voice their opinions out in the open.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We had a sign up and our neighbors took pictures of our house and kids, put them out the neighborhood Facebook page and called us names. This was a small sign in our front window. We have since had hate mail in our door and my boss told me someone in our neighborhood reached out to him via LinkedIn to warn him he hired a racist (aka me). Turns out he is also a republican and told me who reached out. Yes, I emailed the person and let them know I found out. So there is no question why people don’t put signs up. We don’t like to be harassed.

The illiberal left is scary as hell.

You want REALLY scary?

Give the people like PP’s neighbors, the ones who photographed her house and put it on the web with her name, tried to get her fired, and left hate message on her door - put THOSE people in government jobs.

Which is exactly what’s already been slowly happening, and will continue to accelerate.

[Anonymous]

So much fake stories and lies in this thread.