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In reply to the discussion: Why do so many people think it's OK for Trump to behave like a low-class, ill-mannered boor? [View all]The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,908 posts)100. But they aren't, necessarily, and that's what I don't get.
Most of the people I know who voted for Trump (admittedly, that isn't many) are not rude, insulting, boorish people. They are polite, don't often use bad language and have taught their kids good manners. Therefore I can't assume all Trump voters are mean, swinish churls like he is, but for some reason his behavior is tolerated if not copied. I do not understand why anyone who thinks civil behavior is important would tolerate Trump - and yet they do, even if they don't behave like him.
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Why do so many people think it's OK for Trump to behave like a low-class, ill-mannered boor? [View all]
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2018
OP
I suspect the people who voted for him think it's OK for him to behave badly.
CaliforniaPeggy
Mar 2018
#2
imo, as long as democrats ignore rw radio it doesn't matter much what dems say
certainot
Mar 2018
#131
A shame his suppporters and much of media are normalizing outrageous lying, bullying, insulting
wishstar
Mar 2018
#3
When I was in elementary school in a rural area in the 1950s, I discovered that the
enough
Mar 2018
#6
Well stated . The deplorables also believe they are the decent ones by acting that way.
lunasun
Mar 2018
#107
Unfortunately, the MSM does, too, not just the media that are openly acknowledged
tblue37
Mar 2018
#27
Too many of them were brought up to have exceptions to whom should be treated decently
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2018
#23
Everybody knows that. The question is, why is his behavior tolerated
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2018
#38
Also why to they shrug off horrendous scandals that would destroy the career of any other politician
Kablooie
Mar 2018
#59
TRUMP and his behavior are accepted because this is what we have become as a society.
Still In Wisconsin
Mar 2018
#64
You are, of course, correct. There are still pockets of civil society left in this country.
Still In Wisconsin
Mar 2018
#89
But why now, and why this guy? Politics has always been a nasty business,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2018
#79
Conservatives are unbelievable hypocritical. Wasn't it just a few years ago they
Nitram
Mar 2018
#94
We must see the truths and honor the truths that advance this Democracy's Posterity
Civic Justice
Mar 2018
#96
So you must take people at face value. I don't. Many people can pretend
democratisphere
Mar 2018
#104
There was kid right behind him at his speech in PA where he used the term son of a bitch
lunasun
Mar 2018
#101
He's the president. That's a lot different from being a trash-mouthed,
The Velveteen Ocelot
Mar 2018
#111