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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo when you say he "fought for you," you mean he validated your hate.
Diamond_Dog
(32,287 posts)marble falls
(57,903 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,959 posts)Sadly, as you said, a 'SOLID TRUTH BOMB.'
Since last summer the BBC has spoken to supporters at Trump rallies and elsewhere to try and get a sense of why Republican voters cast their ballots for the New York businessman - and whether that can be translated into general election support.
Trump supporters say they back the presumptive Republican nominee because he's saying what's on their minds.
Video by Taylor Kate Brown
Published
10 June 2016
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/election-us-2016-36493678
Alexander Of Assyria
(7,839 posts)It was inevitable some one would exploit that gaping hole in democracys shield and abuse free speech mercilessly for political gain.
Boomerproud
(8,008 posts)localroger
(3,636 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,843 posts)Wish Incould rec
niyad
(114,220 posts)Trumpism is fueled by hate.
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Maru Kitteh
(28,353 posts)liberalla
(9,290 posts)Problem to resolve or change.
onecaliberal
(33,073 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,684 posts)MustBeTheBooz
(271 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,050 posts)andym
(5,451 posts)It's more than hate. The GOP has it's followers believing they are victims and that Trump is bringing them justice and restoring their "rightful" place in society based in illusory merit. Think of Trump's self-touted "accomplishments" like winning the "war on Christmas".
SpankMe
(2,980 posts)JanLip
(846 posts)All the trumpers I know hate almost every one. They witch and complain and you can switch out the W to B since we dont want to be lashed with a wet noodle again.
Jan
republianmushroom
(14,070 posts)Hotler
(11,526 posts)he could rain cruelty and hate down on us. They're looking for a wink or a nod from the orange one or tiny 'd' to use their guns on us.
Artcatt
(344 posts)Lemon Lyman
(1,367 posts)They LOVE that he destroyed all norms:
Calling the press enemies and mocking them to their faces at rallies, turning the crowds on them
Mocking a disabled reporter
Talking about grabbing women however he chooses
Just openly being an asshole
They thought, he does all of this disgusting shit that I want to do, and he gets away with it. Now I'll be able to be a disgusting asshole in public too. THEY LOVE THAT IDEA!! I can throw soup in the waiter's face!! I can pull a gun on someone in traffic!! I can say F U and your feelings to anybody I choose!!
jaxexpat
(6,928 posts)dchill
(38,676 posts)Martin68
(23,083 posts)gulliver
(13,211 posts)Yeah, Trump's a liar and didn't give the Trumpies anything.
Calling them "haters led by a hate validator" is (effectively) immoral, because it is both an oversimplification and an insult that only leads to increasing Trump's power. It's an unintended mistake, but a mistake. This image (I forget what they call this "text in an image dealy" ) is arguably doing exactly what Trump does. It's validating hate of people who are posited as being deserving of it.
Emile
(23,409 posts)11 Bravo
(23,928 posts)FakeNoose
(33,032 posts)... in some cases he even told them WHO they needed to hate.
MAGAts aren't too smart, as we all know. It seems Chump is good at pointing the stupid MAGAts in certain directions and saying, "OK, now hate THEM."
And they did....
Oopsie Daisy
(2,969 posts)It really upset me when someone said: "I think many of Trump's supporters are not racists, not sexists, not homophobes. I think there are a lot of people who are angry and they're angry because they're working longer hours for lower wages, they're angry because their jobs have left this country and gone to China or other low-wage countries, they're angry because they can't afford to send their kids to college so they can't retire with dignity."
This was a very myopic and self-serving position to take, wouldn't you agree?
LetMyPeopleVote
(146,275 posts)SouthernDem4ever
(6,618 posts)ailsagirl
(22,923 posts)Orrex
(63,333 posts)he glorified their fantasies of victimhood.
They will worship him until the last of them has died.
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gratuitous
(82,849 posts)surreywiththefringe whaddya like on your pizza?
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