Let's say Trump is elected and is now President of the United States of America. How long would it take Deplorable Debby or Temperamental Tommy to realize that voting for Trump was a mistake?

never def with a plurality, maybe even a majority for 2 reasons

1. ~50 percent of trump supporters thought stock market went down during obama administration
2. conspiracy theories allow you to blame basically anyone

The type of people who qualify as hardcore Trump supporters are never backing away from him if he's in office. They will excuse everything he does, the same as they have for the last year and a half.

Immediately after Putin appears on all the networks giving his acceptance speech.

What? They love Putin!

Strongman dictators really make them feel special. Democracy and freedom, not so much.

The ones who supported Trump from before the primaries are going down with him no matter what happens. They're the Scientologists of politics.

There might be some Dems in the #NeverHillary camp who voted for Trump that will regret their vote. The rest will find somebody else to blame when things go to ****.

They'll never admit they made a mistake, they'll just start hating him and forget they ever supported him in the first place. 6-12 months.

Nah dude it's TRUMP 4lyfe bruh. He gonna go down like Regan.

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Interesting question. Matthew Yglesias recently wrote about the policies that would be enacted, assuming Trump just rubber-stamps Paul Ryan's agenda.

The poor would suffer most (as always), but they only make up about 25%(R)-35%(D) of the electorate. Life for the median voter from either party would likely not change that much over the next 5-10 years.

The biggest losers in the 15-25 year range wouldn't be US citizens, but the inhabitants of the global South, as Trump pushes us well past the climate tipping point; and then the hugest---and total---losers would be the presently unborn people who inherit an uninhabitable planet by 2100.

Bolded is legit insane.

we'd see a spike in google searches for "what does a president do" that evening

I said, "...likely would not change."

Of course there are plenty of scenarios where Trump just ****s us all right away, but none of them are probable. I don't think the average Trump presidency is even as bad as Cheney/Bush '04-'08 in the short term.

Trump is kind of vague on specifics, how could people ever know they've been tricked?

He'll be able to keep providing what people like -- emotional outlets through scapegoating. That's cheap, doesn't cost rich people anything.

wp

The Chavez-like daily televised rantings would secure their adoration.

An intelligence competition featuring Trump voters vs Brexit voters would be deluxe.

If Trump wins, within two years approximately half the GOP base is going to be claiming that they voted Johnson or McMullin.

half aka 95%. Or the chaffetz joke "i dont support him or endorse him but yes i am voting for him"

This imo. The diehard Trump voters will go down with the ship, but a huge hand-wringing would be coming. I think, assuming Trump loses, it's going to be a split in the GOP.

1. Again, the nuts who think Trump wasn't enough/all the RINO's sold out/etc.

2. The Mitt Romney's who really just don't want to pay taxes but don't like, outwardly hate minorities. They'll be the ones saying they never supported Trump.

I don't know who's going to win, hopefully 2 for the sake of the US.

3. A significant portion of 1. give up any pretenses and become an outright hate group. (Or has that already happened?)

I honestly think that there is a small yet significant percentage of Trump voter who feel pressured into voting for him for various reasons that already regret it before they have actually voted for him. I also think that if Trump is as bad as we think he will be the average Trump voter will regret it very early.

I could be totally off-base here....but I think come January or maybe, first time Hillary does something perceived as "far-left", Ted Cruz is going to be waving his flag saying, "I went to the convention and told DJT to his face that I don't support him. Don't blame me."

(Lol because he somewhat changed his mind by campaining for him, but that's an ez out going "well I couldn't support hillary!)

I think the good politicians in the R party stayed in the murky water of not quite supporting donald bc they know the trainwreck is coming. The true believers like Romney and Kasich just flat-out said No. The hate group were behind him fully. Again, interesting to see what happens and who comes out on top after hilldog beats him.

I think "Never" is the correct answer if Trump manages to somehow have a presidency that does not result in a nuke being dropped or Putin being named Secretariat of State etc. etc.

However, I also think that there are scenarios in which Trump does not watch the world burn from atop the Black House on 5th avenue and his average voter will still realize that they were duped at some point either during his presidency or a short period of time after it ends.

lol

It's an interesting question. One thing I can tell is you is I still see "W" stickers to this day. That doesn't mean he's popular among all of his original supporters but there's definitely a group of people that almost take pride in supporting an unpopular conservative leader. The more unpopular he becomes among the general public, that might make them rally around him even more as he is clearly under attack from the godless liberal media.

Also, "If you think this is bad, just think of Killary as President. She would have made things ten times worse!"