Tony Schwartz: "What no one wants to say: Trump's remaining support is grounded in..."

[Miles Archer]

Tony Schwartz? Verified account
@tonyschwartz

What no one wants to say: Trump's remaining support is grounded in deep,willful ignorance about who he is & what he's doing to our country.
9:26 AM - 4 Sep 2017

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[lapfog_1]

1. I disagree

I believe his "base" knows and approves of his actions. Especially statements like "violence on many sides" and terminating any immigration from brown / black or non Christian nations. And they will love his DACA decision and they will tell their repuke congress people to NOT do anything for these people.

[drmeow]

2. I agree with you

In their minds, Trump's actions are punishment for liberals and minorities taking over "their" country. They are thinking "that'll show them!" They want an authoritarian country based on their rules - if fascism is the way to go they are OK with that.

[Matthew28]

5. His base are a mixture of

libertarians, anti-government supporters and racist.

We will never convince them.

[LittleGirl]

17. Bingo

and welcome to DU!

[Miles Archer]

4. Agreed.

Posted it simply to share Schwartz's views...don't agree with him, though.

[ProudLib72]

10. I only partially agree

I think there are definitely a lot of the type you describe, but I also think there are many, many people who are just seriously low information or falling for the RW news' propaganda. I would really like to see just how influential Faux, Breitbart, and Infowars are and how many people would change their minds if these "news" outlets disappeared.

[leftstreet]

3. His remaining supporters admire him for doing what he promised

I'm beginning to think a lot of pundits and press people don't really 'get' this



Trump blamed non-white people for all the problems in the US

A bunch of white people already felt the same way

His election means they think they don't have to hide it

[BigmanPigman]

6. His cult of supporters is an actual cult in psychological terms.

Does anyone on DU know how to link or repost an earlier DU post from Aug 3rd? It was spot on. I do not know how to link but did save it. It is from a Raw Story's article from UC Santa Cruz Professor and Psychologist Thomas Pettigrew from The Journal of Social Political Psychology about an analysis of 45's base supporters and why they follow him. It has NOTHING to do with political issues but completely about psychological make up. They are sick and can not be swayed by reason. It is a very good and realistic article.

[ProudLib72]

9. You can just copy the link and paste it into your message

Don't worry about the "link" button.

[BigmanPigman]

11. I do not know how to copy or link with a touch screen tablet.

I can not do it with You Tube videos either since there is not a http address on half of the videos. I need to have someone show me how to do it step by step and in person since I am a visual learner. I live with my dog and she is too limited with the use of her 4 digits/toes to tutor me.

[ProudLib72]

13. Ok, sorry about that. I assumed you were using a laptop or desktop.

I know what you mean. It took me a lot of time fiddling with my mother's tablet to figure out how to copy and paste URLs. They do not make it straightforward at all.

[gratuitous]

7. Too easy on them by half, Mr. Schwartz

There is no shortage of understanding in Trump's supporters at this point, and he's doing precisely what they've wanted from a leader for decades. Put "those people*" in their place. Make liberals mad. Show all those other, lesser countries who's boss. And so on.

*A fungible notion, changing from person to person depending on who they hate right at this moment.

[OregonBlue]

8. To find out I went over to Breitbart and read the comments. They are just so happy and

excited and they love him again and they can't wait to throw all of those brown people out of the country even if they have been here all their lives, have great jobs, have never committed a crime and speak nothing but English. His base is just as pure D ugly and hateful as he is.

[LittleGirl]

18. thank you for taking one for the team

I can't read that shit anymore. It makes me so depressed and confused. How could they?

hugs.

[OregonBlue]

22. I agree. I come away feeling dirty.

[enough]

12. They know exactly who he is and that's why they love him. NT

[JDC]

14. On the contrary, everyone is saying that. And since day 1

[ananda]

15. I say it all the time, and ..

.. I hear others say it all the time.

[hay rick]

16. A lot of ignorance but also a lot of spite.

2016 was the "white spite" election.

[Shrike47]

19. He's doing what they elected him to do. They love it.

[spanone]

20. K&R...

[vkkv]

21. Well, those too, but I thought the answer was RACISM.. and so did a whole bunch

of other readers I'd bet.