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Kyblue1

(216 posts)
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:42 AM Jul 2020

After hearing excerpts from his niece's book, aren't Trump voters feeling buyer's remorse?

What did the Republican Party sell the country? According to his niece, a clinical psychologist, Trump is a psychopath. Of course, many of us already knew that, but now we have a credible, expert diagnosis. The whole Republican Party must bear responsibility for what this psycho has done and, I fear, may do between now and January.

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lunasun

(21,646 posts)
1. Yes but he's a racist psychopath that cut wealthy voter's taxes bigly and faked Jesus stuff a lot
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:50 AM
Jul 2020

They know their base

Freedomofspeech

(4,225 posts)
2. His cult will continue to scream Fake News!
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 07:57 AM
Jul 2020

When you live among these morons, you realize they are so incredibly stupid. If you ask why they love him, my favorite answer to hear is: Because he tells it like it is! So that is telling me they lack a heart and a soul...just like their evil, imbecile leader.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
3. Fake News "I Refuse to Accept Reality"
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:05 AM
Jul 2020

In the psychology of human behavior, DENIALISM is a person's choice to deny reality as a way to avoid a psychologically uncomfortable truth. Denialism is an essentially irrational action that withholds the validation of a historical experience or event, when a person refuses to accept an empirically verifiable reality.

In other words, MAGATS are mentally ill, and their illness has a name. Let's use that.

Docreed2003

(16,861 posts)
4. They simply do not care
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:08 AM
Jul 2020

That's the only explanation for their behavior.

Most of them know and recognize exactly what Trump is, but they still support him.

Many are much like him, why else would the wearing of masks in public become a politicized act.?

Chainfire

(17,542 posts)
5. Of course not
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:18 AM
Jul 2020

Their take on the book will go something like this: This book is just another in a long series of unfair attacks by the Democratic Party. It is proof that Donald Trump has been treated worse than any other president, and it shows why they should continue supporting one of their own.

It will not affect the faithful.

ProfessorGAC

(65,055 posts)
17. +1
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 12:30 PM
Jul 2020

The cult lives in a reality free zone.
This book will only change a few minds in the center right.

jls4561

(1,257 posts)
6. Goodness, no. Magats are thinking
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:25 AM
Jul 2020

"I sure wish I was smart enough or my daddee was rich enough to pay somebody to take the SATs for me, then I coulda gone to Liberty U."

womanofthehills

(8,710 posts)
8. Most that I know do not even know he has a niece who wrote a book.
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 08:33 AM
Jul 2020

They are very uneducated, incurious people.

yardwork

(61,622 posts)
16. "Incurious" is a good way to describe them, even those with advanced degrees.
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 11:55 AM
Jul 2020

Many of Trump's base have degrees, but they're not "educated" in the broader sense. They lack intellectual curiosity. They lack interest in other people. Their world is small, even if they have money and travel.

Brett Kavanaugh is typical of Trump's wealthy base. Privileged, sent to private school. He's a Supreme Court Justice but he doesn't care about anybody but himself. Incurious.

Good description.

 

HotTeaBag

(1,206 posts)
12. She and the book will be easily dismissed as a disgruntled family member
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 11:35 AM
Jul 2020

who didn't get what she thought she deserved from Fred's estate.

The book will be forgotten a week after it comes out - the story of Russian bounties is all but forgotten already, how will this stick?

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
13. It'll make them love him more, if they ever even hear about it.
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 11:37 AM
Jul 2020

But it will probably have a little influence around the margins, for example those who sat it out in 2016 might decide that Trump is too dangerous to allow to stay in power.

Liberal In Texas

(13,553 posts)
14. Nothing seems to change the minds of the cultists.
Wed Jul 8, 2020, 11:37 AM
Jul 2020

There's been a few of them, but by and large he could walk into their homes and kill their kids and they'd still vote for him while wearing Magat hats.

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