The average American voter genuinely did not understand who Trump was after his first term, because the legacy Republicans staffing his administration largely managed to confine his reputation to "Average Republican plus mean tweets".
There was also an astonishing degree of mass amnesia about 2020.
There was also an astonishing degree of mass amnesia about 2020.
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“Nobody voted for this” is true in a “I voted to hit the world, not for the world to hit back” sort of way but…
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I'm talking about uninformed swing voters, not MAGA nuts.
Yes we are seeing how much they did to curtail him. But we didn’t listen at all to their warnings.
No redeeming qualities whatsoever but he’s unmoved! #TFG
Thats disqualifying. Doesn’t matter what else they saw or didn’t see.
As long as there's a buck to be made 👇🤮
These are essentially flat earthers on everything from vaccines to tarriffs to diplomacy.
The man's been a known bully since before 2016, and that's BEFORE we found out he's a bigger sex pest than we thought.
Dumbness is someone not knowing a math problem; this is "actively rooting for someone who is being a schoolyard bully on the national stage" - we've shot past "idiot" and gone straight into "sociopath" territory.
Who knows anymore
I was just reading about the early US, and in 1793 a wave of yellow fever hit the US and killed 10% of Philadelphia, forcing the government to flee: within six weeks of the fever passing, there were barely any signs that it had ever been there
People who own up to and admit they were wrong and start actively working to make amends can also earn their way back in.
Unless millions of US voters recognize first hand what they caused, they will have forgotten in 2026, or any other next election that would allow for a bit of course correction.
(I’m all for assholes who voted for him and are currently gritting their teeth and to face plant financially tho)
I'm in a steadily-pinkening county, bunch of suburbs and farms that are reliant on colleges, government jobs, grocery stores, warehouses & trucks, and medical services.
Sort of dozing off to sleep now, but I'm also tired of those people and think they should face the result of their actions. I just don't feel like being callous about it like them. Anyhow, I'm going back to sleep.
I am *for* connecting any pain they experience to the consequence and gravity of choices. Wanting better for them means accountability, not absolution.
The non-generalized reality is that many Americans did not forget and aren't represented by the "we".
"But I didn't think everyone would include my own self"
Even if it's from a homeless camp while starving and sick.
Tillerson at state seems to have done a lot of “I’ll do what works for the oil executive and not my madman boss”.
Even after the crash, I’m not sure what the country looks like a year from now.
This only makes sense if delusion, stupidity, or self destructive cruelty also played a role.
He said he didn't like non-white persons.
His fans went for it, like rabid freaks.
No one remembers 2020 here. That's all a fabrication, according to them.
Sorry but the way you’re going with little to no resistance, the country is royally screwed
A normal really stupid person would have some sense of self-preservation.
Television spreads a type of stupid found in cults, or religious extremism. Trump is a drug, and losing social security is rock bottom, and some will not live.
At some point you can't go with "they didn't know." We did this to ourselves twice. This isn't all of America, but it's more than enough of America.
every harm - every crisis - every death belongs to
Trump/Musk & Republicans 👿☠️
"Average American voter," conveniently means "white American GOP voter." It's an attempt to minimize that they did know who he is.
What they really mean is, "Oh, the Trump voters saw all of these things! But they didn't think that the leopard would eat their face."
That's not the same thing.
People have been acting shocked, but this is who Trump was during 2020.
When I first heard that it sounded quaint, and now it sounds haunting