Conservative Naval prof explains futility of trying to reach Trump voters: 'Some of them are just...

[DonViejo]

Conservative Naval professor explains the futility of trying to reach Trump voters: ‘Some of them are just bad people’

TRAVIS GETTYS
25 JUL 2018 AT 09:50 ET

Tom Nichols, a conservative professor at the Naval War College in Rhode Island, said many of President Donald Trump’s supporters were beyond the reach of logic and reason.

Nichols, a national security affairs professor who also taught at the U.S. Air Force School of Strategic Force Studies, shared an anecdote on Twitter about two Trump supporters confronting him after a lecture Tuesday at Harvard University.

Link to tweet

The women, who were immigrants from India and a post-Soviet region, asked to debate Nichols afterward, and asked if he had called them “willfully evil” — and he said they sputtered after he corrected them and said they were “willfully ignorant.”

“Both did the standard Trump thing: talking at me in a fusillade of words punctuated with questions that they would not let me answer,” Nichols said. “This is a compulsion with Trumpers: they must – *must* – constantly explain to you why they *had* to vote for Trump.”

The women listed “phantom Trump successes” and insisted Trump was taking jobs away from foreign workers and giving them back to Americans, and Nichols tried to correct them.

“Look, what you believe to be true is false,” he told them. “The things you think are facts are not facts. We can’t go further here.”

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[dalton99a]

1. Fuck them. GOTV and outnumber them

[EffieBlack]

6. This

[beachbum bob]

2. I've been saying this for decades, you can not deal with extremists and the

GOP today is nothing but. You steamroll over them.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[beachbum bob]

4. Too many democrats had the attitude of why can't we just get along? The one

big negative of Obama, he failed to take decisive action in words and deeds against the forces that lined up against him right from the beginning.

[EffieBlack]

7. Governing is different than campaigning

[lindysalsagal]

5. Infantile rejection of authority: 24/7 temper tantrum. A toddler forgets what he's even angry about.

If you allow a toddler in the midst of a tantrum to just carry on, he'll likely kick and scream and pound the floor for several minutes. Eventually, the energy is drained off, and they are able to hear other people, again. At that point, if you ask him what he was angry about, he probably won't even remember. His brain is just firing frustration messages indescriminately.

Forever frumpers are in an adult state of frozen anger: They're frustrated, irate, and unreachable. Reason and logic are beyond them. They despise themselves and project the blame for their problems on a nebulous "other" target. In the 30's, it was jews. In the 19th century, it was blacks. Before that, it was italians and irish. For frumpers, it's all of the above, and frump tells them they're right.

They're going through life in a hardened, unredeemable state of rejection.

He really could shoot people on 5th avenue, because in their mentality, that's how they already feel.

[Gothmog]

9. Trump supporters are racist ignorant deplorables