I have family that are fully on the maga train. There is no coming back from that. Will a few snap out of it every now and then? Sure. But there will be no way to unbrainwash them on a massive scale.
How deep these people are down the rabbithole... and they have zero desire to listen to anything else. Trump could physically punch them in the face and they will find a way to avoid blaming him.
They are losing most of their social security and had their snap benefits decreased by almost 50%. Their faith in trump is all they have. Their faith in Christianity. Trump is another god to them and there to save them. And nothing you say or do will convince them otherwise.
raging is who they are. it's what they do. he's been doing it since obama, the far right since rush and fox 'news' each launched. it's basically all they have. it's not like they have policies or a platform to benefit the people, the nation, the world, the planet..
Well fuck me, I recently said that trans in women's sports was a complicated issue. This is straightforward anti-trans propaganda. I also looked at some peer reviewed studies that showed there is no physiological advantage for trans women.
We all make some assumptions based on anecdotal evidence, and the best we can do is learn from our mistakes.
The fact that this works just shows that most Americans are idiots and probably deserve what they voted for: policies that will put them further in poverty and loss of their rights.
Because it is your democratic duty to inform yourself about who or what you are voting for. Otherwise the system does not work and will eventually get rid of itself. Use it or lose it.
It's also the reason he told Republican in Congress to tank the strongest Border Security bill in decades in 2024 after Republicans realized, "Oh crap, Democrats are actually going to vote Yes on it!"
Right. As it was, the entire party almost imploded following their commitment to overturning Roe. They learned their lesson that can only dangle solutions to the fears of their base, maybe address a symptom here and there, but never provide true solutions to the root problems.
Far as I know, and correct me if I am wrong - identity politics can take two forms: There's "individuals are different [in terms of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ...] and that's great" and there's "all preferred people must now unite against specific [ethnic, religious, sexual, ...] minority group". Not sure if you mean both kinds.
This is like me admitting to wiping my ass after I've taken a shit. I mean we all know what they're doing, they know what they're doing, their supporters knows what they are doing. There's no point in pretending that not almost everyone realize this. The tiny minority that are too stupid to know that Trump is full of shit is completely inconsequential.