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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore TrumpRegrets every day: Now the hard-right nationalists are losing their religion
More TrumpRegrets every day: Now the hard-right nationalists are losing their religionHe's not locking up Hillary, he can't deliver cheap health care and now he's a warmonger. This could get ugly, fast
Heather Digby Parton Friday, Apr 14, 2017 12:00 PM EDT
The story of the regretful Donald Trump voter has already become a cliché. It started even before the inauguration, with reporters venturing out into the wilds of real America to talk to the most fascinating people on Earth and find out how theyre feeling on any given day. The Trump voter has a lot of feelings, you see. And we want to know about every single one of them, all the time.
During the transition before his inauguration we learned that a lot of Trumps voters were upset when their hero declined to arrest Hillary Clinton and lock her up. Evidently when they heard him say, drain the swamp, they thought that was what he meant. Indeed, the thrill of seeing the much-loathed former secretary of state clapped in handcuffs was the main reason many of them voted for him. For a time they could have put their hopes in House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz but alas even he seems to have lost interest.
After the Obamacare repeal-and-replace debacle, we had another spate of reports from Trump country, with The New York Times reporting that many people were stunned to learn that the Republican plan would have raised their premiums. They couldnt believe that Trumps promises of much lower costs and much better coverage (and quickly!) were nothing more than hot air.
More recently, weve had stories of Trump voters who were surprised to find out that their family members were being deported under his draconian immigration policies.
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/14/more-trumpregrets-every-day-now-the-hard-right-nationalists-are-losing-their-religion/
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More TrumpRegrets every day: Now the hard-right nationalists are losing their religion (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Apr 2017
OP
I never thought I would live to say that I'm ashamed to be an American.
northoftheborder
Apr 2017
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northoftheborder
(7,572 posts)1. I never thought I would live to say that I'm ashamed to be an American.
But I am. Ashamed of the ignorance, racism, selfishness, misogyny, misplaced radical religion. Not all of Americans, of course, not even the majority. BUT an overwhelming number were conned into voting into office the odious person in the White House.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)2. Same here
If I could have known the depths of hate and ignorance this country would sink to in my lifetime, I would have run to Canada and renounced my citizenship 40 years ago.
But now I'm just trapped watching all this shit go down, growing worse by the day. Darkness is overtaking the USA at a frightful rate.