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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat will it be like for Trump supporters after Trump is gone and this nightmare is all over with?
I predict it'll be like watching old Star Trek re-runs and suddenly realizing what a terrible actor William Shatner was.
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)She gave up so much to get so little.
Orrex
(63,212 posts)Even if he's rightly impeached and he goes on a killing rampage in the process, they'll still imagine him as an infallible demigod brought down only by the nefarious efforts of Clinton, Soros, and the Liberal Media.
Some will wake up and say "holy shit, what was I thinking?" but the vast, vast majority of his idiot racist fuckhead cult will worship him until their dying breaths.
Consider how many Republicans still think that Reagan was a great leader, rather than a criminal and an increasingly incompetent puppet.
HAB911
(8,891 posts)to rationalize it as our fault
tblue37
(65,357 posts)office.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Glamrock
(11,800 posts)They'll go back to being disengaged non-voters (at least a good % will). Most of the die hard Trump voters I know haven't voted in years if at all.
JHB
(37,160 posts)And maybe dust off their tricorner hats for another session of the Disownership Society.
mindfulNJ
(2,367 posts)to hitch their wagon to.
Mister Ed
(5,933 posts)"Saddam has WMD's!"
"Wall Street will self-regulate!"
"Obama was born is Kenya!"
They never, ever mind when the story they've been peddled is shown to be a lie. They instantly forget it ever happened, and pivot to supporting the new lie they're being told to believe.
It's like that crazy scene from "1984", in which the crowd instantly pivots from screaming in support of the war against Eurasia to screaming in support of the new war against Eastasia, never missing a beat.
spanone
(135,832 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)the next Democrat is elected, they'll go back to thinking they are being wronged and discriminated against and they'll look for another even STUPIDER god of racist, sexist incompetence. Because he "speaks for them."
Siwsan
(26,262 posts)We've seen how loosely wrapped some of his followers are, and there are some who will, most definitely, lash out.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Trump is 'God's annointed.' It's obvious:
1) T 'saves' babies'
2) T won when everyone was convinced he would lose. Therefore he and his win are obviously miracles given by God to save US
3) To us it's a nightmare; to them it's a dream come true
Dread Pirate Roberts
(1,896 posts)and Infowars. They'll be able to get their daily doses of delusion....to go along with their Metamucil.
kentuck
(111,095 posts)They will be very slow to accept another reality.
procon
(15,805 posts)Republicans came down with mass amnesia. No one mentioned his name. No one admitted they voted for him. They just erased Bush's presidency and proceeded to blame everything on Obama.
rock
(13,218 posts)They'll be in pure agony. Too bad. (Too sarcastic?)
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)Bettie
(16,109 posts)family and neighbors, treated as the racist scum they actually are.