Why So MAD, Trumpsters?
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According to Trump, America is now in great shape – fantastic shape – unbelievable shape! And we know that his supporters believe every word he says.
So why is it that at rally after rally, all we see are people who are angry to the point of acting like rabid dogs? Why aren’t these folks busy having their kitchens renovated, out buying a new car, or off on an expensive vacation – the things they were promised as a result of Trump’s “massive tax cuts”? Instead of enjoying the “prosperity” Trump keeps bragging about having delivered, those who are allegedly the recipients of that prosperity are attending rallies in a mood that can only be described as pissed-off to the max.
The truth is there is no joy in Trumpville – and it shows. In fact, it is blatantly obvious.
These rally attendees are not happy people. These are not people who are overjoyed with being free of the yoke of liberal tyranny that they allegedly suffered under for eight years under Obama. These are not people who believe they’re “winning” anything, because their own lives are no different than they were before all that “winning” started – in fact, many of them are worse off.
Despite the bubble most Trumpsters wrap themselves in, they are still living in the real world – and it’s a world where there is no better and cheaper medical coverage for all. There are no huge raises and bonuses from their employers flowing from their massive corporate tax breaks. The funds for the border wall are going to come out of their pockets, not Mexico’s. For many, their jobs are in jeopardy, or have already been lost due to Trump’s trade war. They see businesses closing, farms in trouble, and the price of goods rising, along with the cost of their healthcare premiums and the prescription drugs they need to survive.
Trumpsters are not enjoying the spoils of their victory simply because there are none – at least not for them. That’s what makes them angry. That’s what keeps them riled-up and ready to boil over. After all the promises of making America great again, the poor are poorer, the rich are richer – and the middle-class worker is still living in the same house, working in the same job for the same wage, still struggling to pay the same bills they couldn’t afford before – a situation that has no resemblance to “winning” to the point of being tired of all of their success.
"What you are seeing and what you are reading is not what's happening," Trump said. "Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news." Trying to convince his rally rabble to ignore the media is not just for the obvious purpose – i.e. keeping them ignorant of the facts emanating from Mueller’s investigation – but for the purpose of keeping them ill-informed about how his policies are enriching the already-wealthy while leaving the middle-class twisting in the wind.
What we are seeing at Trump’s rallies is people who are growing increasingly frustrated. They see “illegals” being deported, but their own lives aren’t any better for it. They feel free to display their racism and bigotry, but doing so hasn’t improved their lives one iota. They see children taken from their parents and locked in cages, but that policy has not led to any appreciable difference in their own lives.
One fact remains in all of this, and it’s the fact that people who are promised things that are never delivered eventually ask the obvious question about the politicians who want their support: What’s in it for me?
People who believe they’re winning are smug in victory. They laugh-off the barbs of those they see as “the losers”, instead of being triggered to violence by them. People who believe they’re “winning” are content with their victory – they don’t show up at rallies full of vitriol, lashing out at everyone and anyone who bursts their bubble by pointing out the facts and the truth.
We have all hoped for that one incident, that one policy, that one tweet that will wake the Trumpsters out of their self-imposed ignorance. We have waited patiently for that elusive straw that will finally break the camel’s back.
But there is no one straw. There is no one incident that will prove to be the turning point. There is no one anything that will lead Trumpsters to abandon their Dear Leader en masse.
I believe the Trumpsters are waking up to the truth ever-so-slowly – but nonetheless inevitably. It won’t be a landslide – it will be a slow chipping away of support as Trump’s middle-class base is beginning to realize they’ve been had, as it finally dawns on them that everything they were promised has been reneged on, forgotten, or simply turned around to be to the benefit of the rich while they are left with crumbs.
Patience, my friends – patience. The vitriol the Trumpsters are exhibiting is a sure sign that they don’t believe they’re winning anything. It is a sign of discontent and dissatisfaction with the way things are going. It is a recognition that the promise of “making America great again” is just a slogan on a hat, and has nothing to do with actually making things better for the middle-class workers who put Trump in office in the first place.
Trumpsters are not the smartest people on the planet. They are easily manipulated, and easily-led. But they are also self-serving, and ultimately more interested in what they stand to gain as opposed to what their political foes stand to lose. And as things stand now, they are not gaining anything.
Every day Trump remains in office in another day that one – or a dozen, or a hundred Trumpsters come to the obvious conclusion: Supporting Trump makes America great again for the wealthy, for the CEOs earning multi-million-dollar salaries, for the private-jet-and-yacht-owners, for the corrupt cronies of their Dear Leader who are reaping the benefits that the middle-class were promised, but that never materialized.
Trump’s loss of his “base” will not be an avalanche – it will be the slow-and-steady drip, drip, drip of erosion.
The Republicans counted on the notion that the easily-led could be easily distracted. They assured themselves that railing against NFL athletes taking a knee would make the Trumpsters forget that 80% of their promised “tax relief” went to the wealthy. They convinced themselves that middle-class Trump supporters would look the other way while everything they were promised never came to fruition.
What they didn’t take into account is that the average Trumpster is not as concerned with who takes a knee as they are with how they themselves are supposed to pay their bills. What they didn’t understand is that the middle-class Trump supporter is not as interested in who gets deported as they are with how they can afford to send their own kids to college. What they didn’t bother considering is that your run-of-the-mill Trump supporter doesn’t give a fuck about the “fake news” as much as they care about what they were promised turning out to be “fake promises”.
Give it time – give it space. Reality is setting in among the brain-dead. We just have to wait it out.
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And saying it with your normal eloquence too, I might add. 
Thank you!
And right on point. Thank you!
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The vitriol the Trumpsters are exhibiting is a sure sign that they don’t believe they’re winning anything. It is a sign of discontent and dissatisfaction with the way things are going. It is a recognition that the promise of “making America great again” is just a slogan on a hat, and has nothing to do with actually making things better for the middle-class workers who put Trump in office in the first place.
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