Trump voter begs for forgiveness on CNN: 'I am sorry I voted for him -- I've enabled this monster'

[workinclasszero]

Regretful Trump voter begs for forgiveness on CNN: ‘I am sorry I voted for him — I’ve enabled this monster’
BRAD REED 16 OCT 2018 AT 08:20 ET

A regretful Trump voter told CNN’s Alisyn Camerota on Tuesday that she was deeply sorry for backing the president in 2016 — and she vowed to fight him “every day” to make amends.

During a focus group discussion on Trump’s presidency, independent voter Sydney Cohan begged America to forgive her for voting for Trump two years ago even as she swore to make amends for her decision.

“I just want to say to every American that’s having trouble with this — I am sorry I voted for him,” she said. “I regret it with all my heart. I feel like I’ve enabled this monster to destroy democracy, destroy everything that is good in this country.”

Cohan went on to detail the actions she’s taking to earn redemption for picking Trump in 2016.

“I’m definitely voting Democrat,” she said. “I’ve been knocking on doors, I’ve got a clipboard… I am canvassing for a Democrat in Wyoming.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/regretful-trump-voter-begs-forgiveness-cnn-sorry-voted-ive-enabled-monster/

[handmade34]

1. I've got a clipboard...

we need hundreds of thousands of them... I want to forgive them but still having a difficult time of it

[workinclasszero]

3. Yeah

The effects of Trump in the White House is going to **** this country over for many many years.

[kentuck]

2. Wow!

She validates all our fears.

[UCmeNdc]

4. Vote all GOP Bums out of office!

Period!

[gordianot]

5. For a period about a month when I was 13 or 14 I thought Nazi's were cool.

I look back on that brief adolescent fling with total abject horror. My saving grace was I read a lot and had some ability to understand what they represent. It appears to me anyone who voted for Donald Trump has a similar dilemma. You just do not have the excuse of being a stupid adolescent.

[workinclasszero]

6. I bet there are a lot of Trump voters that regret voting for the traitor in the White House

But will never admit it and keep right on voting GOP till the day they die.

So I gotta give this woman credit for what she is doing now.

[gordianot]

10. Being an old white male I have to give women credit.

They definitely are more perceptive, motivated and rational than the male of the species. Hominids are still hung up with the hierarchical alpha organization for the ape that makes the loudest display.

[mountain grammy]

12. Sad but true.

[still_one]

7. Not surprisingly that was the same sentiment from labor which helped elect Reagan in 1980

[Cousin Dupree]

8. What kind of cognitive deficits do these people have that they would think Twitler would make a

good President in the first place? Could they not see the potential for disaster? I have a hard time with these “regreters”. The only think I trust about them is that they have faulty judgment.

[workinclasszero]

9. Fox 'news' and hate radio/mega church brainwashing works

The Trump GOP cult voters are locked down in an alternate universe bubble that the truth never penetrates basically.

Only when GOP/Trump policy hits them personally do they sometimes wake up.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Could Be, But. . .

. . .i think many people without those influences thought "outsider" and "business man" were a good idea.

Now they see that being an outsider really means totally inexperienced and inept, and that the business man thing was a lie.

[workinclasszero]

30. True but all a person had to do before the election was google Trump

to see what kind of a thieving crook, con man, criminal he is.

Not to mention the infamous pussy grabbing tape.

And yet these people chose to ignore all that because Fox 'news', hate radio and their preacher were screaming FAKE NEWS, 24/7 at them.

That kept them in the GOP bubble.

With a large dollop of misogyny and racism/white privilege thrown in of course.

[JI7]

34. "misogyny and racism/white privilege"

that's actually the only thing it is .

[workinclasszero]

37. Yeah

Race is used by the 1% to divide and conquer the 99%.

Just check out a history book. Humankind seems incapable of escaping its apelike tribal origins.

Our brain stems control all, well GOP voters anyway.

[BigmanPigman]

14. Politics is personal.

Some people do not start to give a damn until something directly effects their live negatively. Too bad the "woke" people have to suffer the consequences of those who walk through life with blinders and tin foil hat wearers.

[workinclasszero]

31. Very true

Especially with Trump voters.

[BigGermanGuy]

23. the opposition has a great pr game

my sister, the most liberal feminist I know, even hated Hillary and refused to vote for her, voting stein instead.

she now, of course, regrets this.

[JI7]

32. what game ? i think they played to peoples bigotry

doesn't matter how liberal someone wants to claim to be. their actions show more where they stand than anything else.

[BigGermanGuy]

33. but these people aren't liberal

they are the middle of the road voter who chases the shiny object. the very people we need to win over.

[JI7]

35. either way that's what it is.

[Garrett78]

43. You can't win over people who 'chase the shiny object'. Unless the goal is to always be that object.

Much better to focus on turning out the base, while raising hell about voter suppression. And do whatever it takes to control the media narrative.

Along with some outreach to non-voters.

[ck4829]

48. Good question

[kimbutgar]

13. Make sure we have a blue tsunami and not red algae!

[Stuart G]

15. It starts at about 3min and 15 seconds where she says this.

[czarjak]

16. "Rigged" elections have consequences...

[Goodheart]

17. While I do question the brainpower of those six people, given drumpf's obvious scumminess

from the get-go, I must admit that the clip makes me a lot more optimistic about the mid-terms.

[panfluteman]

18. Anybody Who Had Their Eyes and Ears Open During Trump's Election Campaign,

And who still remembered something of what they learned in Civics, American History and American Government would never have voted for this monster and demagogue. These deluded voters need to go back to high school and retake those courses. The red flags were all there, plain as day, for anyone to see. Unfortunately, too many more are still members of the Trump cult. I wonder how hard CNN had to look to find Trump voters who had woken up and come to their senses.

[FakeNoose]

29. This!!! All the facts were there for anyone who wanted to know

Thinking back to the 1972 election - yep I'm that old - when Nixon was running for re-election. The Watergate break-in happened in June of 1972 and various GOP dirty tricks were percolating around that time. Originally Watergate was viewed as just one more dirty trick, in a campaign in which Nixon was already heavily favored to win anyway. Why did they think they needed any dirty tricks at all?

Well a lot of baby boomers were protesting the Vietnam War and even some parents/older folks were starting to protest by then. So Nixon had to turn his campaign into this show of ridiculous patriotism. Anybody who protests the war must be unpatriotic, anybody who opposes Nixon must be a traitor, that kind of thing. So bringing it back to your point, the facts of the Watergate break-in were all there in the newspapers for everyone to see. Even the Watergate cover-up and the obstruction were right out in the open, but everyone ignored it all. Most people went to the polls in November 1972 and voted for Nixon! He won by a huge landslide probably the biggest margin ever. Poor George McGovern who was the Democratic sacrificial lamb didn't even win his own state of South Dakota.

My point (and I think your point too) is that the media so completely favored Nixon that people just stupidly and lazily allowed themselves to be fooled into voting for him. With a small amount of effort, you could easily educate yourself by reading about the Watergate break-in, the dirty tricks, the cover-up, the obstruction, all the fake "patriotism" - but almost nobody did.

That was my first election in which I was old enough to vote and the lessons I learned then have stayed with me all these years. Since 1972 I have never voted for any Republican candidate for president, and I don't believe I ever will.

[BigGermanGuy]

36. sadly, they won't "go back and learn"

they are the people they are, and they vote, very often for the shiniest object.

Obama was the shiny object. Then Trump was.

but. maybe. just maybe, they will pay attention going forward.

[Garrett78]

44. Not to mention the overt racism, sexual assault bragging, obvious indications of corruption, etc.

[LakeArenal]

19. First I don't care WWJD...

But if you do, love the sinner, hate the sin.

I say if they want in, let ‘em in!!

They are better than the ones who now deny the voted Dump.

[llmart]

21. I agree with you.

At the very least, she had the guts to go on national TV and admit she was wrong, apologize to the rest of us who didn't vote for him and then go out and do something to atone for it. I give her a lot of credit and at least to me, she's welcome to join our party.

To the ones who will deny they ever voted for him - I have a terrific memory and I can clearly remember, at least in my daily travels, which houses had the Trump signs in them and until I see a Democrat's sign in your yard, you cannot hide. If you were vocal about your support of him and have not repented, you can't hide. We know who some of you are.

I actually only personally know two women who admitted to me that they voted for him. The first one said she voted for him because he wasn't a politician and the second one is someone I've known all my life from the time I was six years old. She is very uneducated and never in all her adult years would admit that the financial situation she has always found herself in was due to her own bad choices.

[Javaman]

20. 1) how long has she felt like this? 2) she's only saying this now?

I bet she was still all in up till a few months ago.

her apologies me exactly zero to me. the fucking country and our nations future is at stake and now she's sorry? nope, not buying it or accepting it. we are so far down the fucking rabbit hole that no amount of apologies and no amount to their sincerity will undo their fuck up.

suck it up butter cup you fucked up.

if she was truly sorry she be working hard for any Dem candidate running against a repuke.

that and only that situation would I ever accept their "apologies".

they are just trying to save face and that is not an apologies, that's them trying to walk in pubic without being shamed.

fuck them.

[47of74]

22. I feel the same

[obamanut2012]

27. Same

[Coventina]

24. I can't forgive these people. Trump was an obvious racist from the beginning.

Anyone who votes for a racist is a racist themselves.

Now they might be sorry because the racist is also hurting them with his evil, but they were fine with him hurting others.

Not OK.

I will NEVER be OK with that.

[ck4829]

49. +1

[LudwigPastorius]

25. I remember reading how U.S. troops, after the successful toppling of the Nazis, made...

the Germans living near concentration camps walk through them so they could see the horrible suffering and death that they had enabled.

Maybe she should be made to attend the grave of every woman who will die of a botched, back-alley abortion after Roe is overturned.

[obamanut2012]

26. Because of SCOTUS and the immigrant policy, none of them can make amends

Sorry, no forgiveness from me -- own how you ruined this country and countless people's lives,.

[Jake Stern]

28. She was groovy with Trump when he was going after "those people"

Reminds me of the woman who voted Trump then cried when her husband was deported. They didn't give a fuck about Cons ripping healthcare away from my child when they voted for Mr. "Says What He Thinks".

Only after the beast has turned on them do they feel remorse.

Here's my advice for our contrite Trump voter on where to go from here: eat shit and die.

[ck4829]

50. Yep

[oberliner]

38. This is Raw Story stealing content from CNN and linking to an illegally posted video

[LanternWaste]

42. Seems rather irrelevant (again) to the actual concern laid out in the OP.

So yeah... I can readily understand your avoidance of that.

[oberliner]

45. The CNN video didn't seem to be worth commenting on

Raw Story taking content from others in a way that does not seem fair to me was the point I wanted to make.

[Blue_Tires]

39. Now I want a mea culpa from some of the usual suspects on the left

and it's long overdue if I do say...

[workinclasszero]

40. Like Nader, the Greens, Sarandon and Jill Stein?

Yeah don't hold your breath.

They are guilty as hell though.

[BlueStater]

41. I really don't get it.

THIS moment right here wasn't enough for you to stop supporting him? Seriously?

[Cha]

46. KR!!!!

[ck4829]

47. Kick

[beachbum bob]

51. anecdotal at best BUT, I do have 3 close conservative friends who have said the same

many have "buyer's remorse" at this stage and in general fed up with Republican party. I have little hope they will vote democratic BUT more likely stay home and not vote at all.

STill a winner for us