In shorter terms: There are a lot of marks for a con man - ThreadSky

gothamgirlblue.com • 7 days ago

In shorter terms: There are a lot of marks for a con man

this is worth digging into. very nuanced analysis but my general takeaway is that Trump has a near mystical attraction for low-info, low-propensity voters catalist.us/whathappened...

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petrarca.bsky.social•7 days ago

lotorssexytime.bsky.social•7 days ago

After white people Latinos really fucked us this year. That's embarrassing. Wish Kamala would have backed off her undying support for Israel hands down list Michigan because of that. They wouldn't even let a Palestinian speak at the dnc nomination.

okgrown.bsky.social•7 days ago

By marks, I think you mean racists and bigots looking for someone powerful enough to give them permission to act on and voice their racism and bigotry…in spite of societal norms and previously accepted boundaries.

gothamgirlblue.com•7 days ago

This was recognized with the Reagan era, but had not been thoroughly tested until Trump, because before Barack Obama broke white people’s brains, there was an assumption that no major party would nominate a con man with no experience, knowledge, or prior office to run for national office.

grudgie.bsky.social•7 days ago

So many Americans experience politics as theater, utterly disconnected from real world outcomes.

gothamgirlblue.com•7 days ago

And they’re helped by theater critics who cloak themselves in the trappings of news reporters…sitting at anchor desks, speaking in sober baritones, using SAT words, all to describe what amounts to courtier gossip

occamshavecream.bsky.social•7 days ago

I think of them as democracy auctioneers

gothamgirlblue.com•7 days ago

The solution to the con man problem is not to attack the confidence artist himself or tell people they’ve been taken—people tend to protect themselves against the reality by increasing their devotion. It is to decrease the number of marks.

bluesueintex.bsky.social•7 days ago

What do you mean by decreasing the number of marks?

bklynnative.bsky.social•7 days ago

Someone should have analyzed what Reagan did to the people of CA before nominating/voting for him. NYers warned everyone about this creep but no one believed us because of how we mistreat our tourists.

ceindeed.bsky.social•7 days ago

If there is a positive to be found, should we be able to survive Trump, there is nobody within that party that remotely approaches Trump’s “celebrity”, and sheer evil.
Vance ?
Rubio ?
Hegseth ?

sweaters40.bsky.social•6 days ago

“Broke white peoples brains “
Please explain.

littlemsunderstood.bsky.social•7 days ago

quirkyhndl.bsky.social•7 days ago

There are a lot of exploited, disaffected citizens who will vote for anyone who promises change, even if that's burning it all down. They're too uniformed to know the details, but they live exploitation every day.

jasonpaul.bsky.social•7 days ago

The common clay of the New West.

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