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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Fri Mar 8, 2019, 12:09 PM Mar 2019

Trump thinks his supporters are the most gullible people on earth. Are they really?

I’ve got the perfect slogan for President Trump’s reelection campaign: “Promises Made, Promises Not Kept, But I’m Betting My Voters Are Too Stupid to Notice.”

Let’s take stock:

Trump promised to build a wall along the 2,000-mile southern border, with the cost of the “big, beautiful” barrier to be borne by Mexico. Trump made this pledge dozens of times in a call-and-response ritual at his campaign rallies. “Who’s going to pay for the wall?” he would demand, and the cheering crowds would yell the answer: “Mexico!”

Result: Not a single mile of Trump’s wall has been built. When Mexican officials made clear they would never pay a cent toward construction, Trump asked Congress for the money. Even with Republicans in control of both the House and the Senate for two full years, Congress declined to waste taxpayer dollars on the project. When Democrats took the House, Trump declared a “national emergency” in an attempt to steal funds from other projects. Still, despite what he claims, Trump has built no new wall.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-thinks-his-supporters-are-the-most-gullible-people-on-earth-are-they-really/2019/03/07/1e79a4c4-4119-11e9-9361-301ffb5bd5e6_story.html

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Trump thinks his supporters are the most gullible people on earth. Are they really? (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2019 OP
Gullible and fearful of Brown people. That's his constituency. Power 2 the People Mar 2019 #1
People believe what they want to believe. Dulcinea Mar 2019 #2
It's not that. MicaelS Mar 2019 #3
Take a look at the facial expressions of the crowd at trump's next mini-Nuremberg rally. Paladin Mar 2019 #4

Dulcinea

(6,509 posts)
2. People believe what they want to believe.
Sat Mar 9, 2019, 11:36 AM
Mar 2019

Facts be damned. Dolt 45 says things are great. That's all they need to know.

MicaelS

(8,747 posts)
3. It's not that.
Sat Mar 9, 2019, 12:42 PM
Mar 2019

It is because he is punishing the people they hate.

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

I’ve seen plenty of memorable quotes from Trump voters over the last couple of years, but “he’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting” is among the most striking.

It captures an amazing perspective: some Trump voters expected the Republican to punish some people if elected, but they assumed they’d be spared. Trump would hurt those people, the sentiment went, but not us.

Paladin

(28,204 posts)
4. Take a look at the facial expressions of the crowd at trump's next mini-Nuremberg rally.
Sat Mar 9, 2019, 12:58 PM
Mar 2019

There's your answer, unfortunately.

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