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lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 week agoTrump only sees the people who voted for him and the people he needs to make an example of
Let’s not pretend like Trump gives a shit about the people who voted for him.
Comment on So, is the USA screwed?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 week agoTrump only sees the people who voted for him and the people he needs to make an example of
Let’s not pretend like Trump gives a shit about the people who voted for him.
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Very fair take.
That said he’s not a full on idiot. MAGAts are useful tools for him, so he is more likely to try and make them happy, in some way. Currently the way to make them happy is to punish the left. In our post 9/11 USA, rage is what flips seats.
W Bush won his second term because we were blind with rage after the attacks, and John Kerry didn’t run a counter rage campaign.
Obama won because the financial crash enraged the left.
Obama won his second term because Romney wasn’t able to stir up the needed rage.
Trump won because he was the embodiment of rage.
Biden won by the rage we had for Trump in the summer of 2020.
Trump won again by running a campaign of rage vs Kamala who ran a “campaign of joy”.
We are a country of 50 mini countries. All you need to do to win is generate enough rage to pit purple states against the states who won’t vote for you. So long as this country stands as it is, this is just how it’s going to be. Sadly any diplomatic fixes for this are pipe dreams now.
The only way this will end is when the fire of rage consumes the whole system and burns it down. After that… I don’t know.