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Originally Posted by wheatrich
A completely nuts person is POTUS
and like 40% are cheering this on and probably still half want this to continue.
what in the **** happened to this country?
I think anxiety towards minority has gotten so big that an important part of americans are willing to support Trump through rain and storm. Thats what makes the emotional trigger click. Once the emotional trigger is on stuff like the Putin thing and the DeVos situation is ignored or rationalized.
My amateur but not totally ignorant understanding of right wing psychology would lead me to attack Trump with the DeVos thing much more. The powerful family of donors putting their guy in the state apparatus may click some of his supporters because it fits the libertarian narrative.
Attacking Trump only with the Russia thing doesnt seem like such a good idea because geopolitics is extremely compex and the evidence is diffuse. People dont give a **** about Putin taking over Latvia and even then how do we know that Putin really wants to take over Latvia and this is not just a mainstream narrative just like it was narrative that Iraq had nuclear weapons and so on. OTOH the DeVos situation is ****ing obvious and there to be exploited.
Its such a shame that Trump didnt have the balls to stand up to the republican establishment and so on. That way you also attack his masculinity which is also part of the appeal he has to his base, etc.
EDIT: My post seem contradictory because it seems like Im saying that Trump supporters will rationalize the DeVos stuff and then I say its a good way of attacking him. Well , they are both true
. The hardcore supporters will never change but at the same time some lighter supporters may start having serious doubts.