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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Trump voters read Robert Reichs list of cons on them will they believe?
Many think it is a fool's errand to try to reach the Trump voters. Invest the time into a base that is more in line with Progressives but who do not vote. Yes, we must. But we must also keep opening the eyes of all those fooled by Trump's con and the Republican failed ideology. Robert Reich did it spectacularly.
https://egbertowillies.com/2017/12/30/trump-voters-read-robert-reichs-list-cons/
elleng
(131,176 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)I just don't do with the expectation or even the hope that it will change their minds. I just do it to piss them off and make them look stupid (assuming they're even capable of that level of humility). If, in the process, some minds get opened, so much the better.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,024 posts)to admit they've been taken is too much for their "pride" to handle.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)Some of the smartest people I went to college with will not accept the fact they've been played. They keep defending Trump and keep calling telling me to give him a chance.
cloudbase
(5,525 posts)If they're still believers at this point, there isn't a whole lot that can make them see things differently.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Snackshack
(2,541 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)They're FASCISTS. To the core. I'm talking about his hardcore base, not all those who voted for Trump -- just the hardcore base:
To quote Paxton again, this time from his seminal "The Anatomy of Fascism": Fascist leaders made no secret of having no program. This explains why Trump supporters are not bothered by his ideological malleability and policy contradictions: He was pro-choice before he was pro-life; donated to politicians while now he rails against that practice; married three times and now embraces evangelical Christianity; is the embodiment of capitalism and yet promises to crack down on free trade. In the words of the Italian writer Umberto Eco, fascism was a beehive of contradictions. It bears noting that Mussolini was a socialist unionizer before becoming a fascist union buster, a journalist before cracking down on free press, a republican before becoming a monarchist.
Like Mussolini, Trump is dismissive of democratic institutions. He selfishly guards his image of a self-made outsider who will dismantle the establishment in the words of one of his supporters. That this includes cracking down on a free press by toughening libel laws, engaging in the ethnic cleansing of 11 million people (illegals), stripping away citizenship of those seen as illegitimate members of the nation (children of the illegals), and committing war crimes in the protection of the nation (killing the families of suspected terrorists) only enhances his stature among his supporters. The discrepancy between their love of America and these brutal and undemocratic methods does not bother them one iota. To borrow from Paxton again: Fascism was an affair of the gut more than of the brain. For Trump and his supporters, the struggle against political correctness in all its forms is more important than the fine print of the Constitution.
MORE AT LINK
https://www.salon.com/2016/03/11/trumps_not_hitler_hes_mussolini_how_gop_anti_intellectualism_created_a_modern_fascist_movement_in_america/