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

[Anonymous]

The very first Trump campaign sign I have seen in DC. There was even a camera crew filming it. 🤮

I am struck by this too.
There are many conservatives in DC, even though the majority of DC residents, parents, and voters are Democrats. (We know that the strongest predictor of Trump voting was low-education levels, and of course a highly-educated city like DC, where people understand what's going on with Trump and the Republican party, would be highly anti-GOP, just like every area where Fox and rightwing media are not heavily consumed.) But a ton of conservatives come here for jobs and some live in DC and many work here and eat at restaurants here, even if they vote elsewhere.

Still, I have almost NEVER seen a Trump sign or hat in DC, and I walk around the city A LOT. Tourists around the white house sometimes, yeah. But never in real DC.
I can count on two fingers how many trump hats I've seen in 2 years outside the mall and White House.

Yet drive around - there are Democratic stickers EVERYWHERE.

And in other areas of the country, like red Virginia and purple and red OH, NY, MD that I've been, I've seen many Dem and Biden signs along with Trump signs.


I think the lack of Trump hats and shirts in DC is because Trumpers in DC are afraid. They know their ideas are trash and their voters are lied to.

Republicans in DC know that even though they work for Republican outlets, they can't actually win an argument on fair terms with liberals, because their party is constructed from lies.

So Republicans hide in their little bubbles, read their deceptive and lame rightwing DC Examiner and Washington Times and Wall Street Journal, high-five their fellow staffers and Cato employees.

And when they go out in DC, they're afraid to show their identity. Because they can't defend it. They can only justify what they believe inside their own sealed bubble of lies.

It's sad, really. I almost feel bad for them.

[Anonymous]

I see a lot of Trump signs (the big ones) down in Western Loudoun but nothing in my part of Fairfax County.

[Anonymous]

Because most conservatives live in VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because most conservatives live in VA.

There’s plenty in the more rural parts of MD too.

[Anonymous]

The city voted 97% Clinton in 2016. That’s why.

[Anonymous]

Because the conservatives in DC proper are Lincoln Project Republicans, not Trump Republicans.

[Anonymous]

There just aren’t that many pro Trump people in DC, Arlington, Alexandria, etc.

Even the more “conservative” people I’ve met around here aren’t voting for Trump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because the conservatives in DC proper are Lincoln Project Republicans, not Trump Republicans.

Exactly- Lincoln project and Cato types. I know some of them
and they’re not for Trump.

[Anonymous]

There wasn't a single Trump sign outside of our polling place either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because most conservatives live in VA.

But they go out here in DC. And they work here.

I once saw a guy wearing a “Reagan Bush 1984” shirt get asked “Wait, was that the campaign Reagan kicked off by dogwhistling to racists at the site of a notorious lynching?!?!? Oh, NO. That was 1980!” While the Republican guy was speechless.

Never saw another shirt like that again.

[Anonymous]

Because they are an incredibly small minority in close-in DMV. don’t want to be pariahs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There just aren’t that many pro Trump people in DC, Arlington, Alexandria, etc.

Even the more “conservative” people I’ve met around here aren’t voting for Trump.

Just false. They all supported Trump in the corruption case, they vote for the Senate GOP who defended him, they like Trump because he delivered for them,
And they put party first.

Zero Republican signs in DC either.

[Anonymous]

Because they done want to be harassed, cancelled, or lose their jobs . . . Obviously.

[Anonymous]

Every person who is still a Republican today is by definition a pro-Trump Republican.

Jeff Flake and Max Boot hace claims to be anti-Trump. Now Republican today has that- they support Trump, even if it’s useful for them publicly to say they don’t support Trump.

[Anonymous]

I've seen more 'Republicans for Biden/Harris' than Trump signs in DC. Start heading out of town and that changes quickly though.