All Things Trump: the story continues...

[Tero]

The red states...especially deep south...will see nearly all funding go for social programs, schools etc. When Medicaid and poor and their children are then dumped on the states. Nice job Louisiana, home of speaker Mike Johnson.

[JimC]

Schools only teach kids to be liberals and switch genders!

[Tero]

Young male voters think of women the same way as Trump. Can't ge much of the story (paywall)

She sat with an easy confidence. There were no disapproving glances from other passengers. There was no tension. No conflict. It struck me that in 2024 it was now perfectly acceptable to express support for Trump in a deep blue (Democratically held) city. As I travelled to my destination I wondered: If one could support Trump this openly in New York City, what might support look like in the rest of the country?

A few hours later I attended an exclusive, well-heeled party. I spoke to various professionals who said that they had never voted Republican in their lives, but had voted for Trump that day due to his support—in their words—“for the Jews.” These Manhattanites told me that Kamala was too sympathetic to the “pro-Hamas contingent” of the far-Left, and at a time of rising antisemitism, they couldn’t bring themselves to support her. This small group of cosmopolitans represented a contingent far-removed from the stereotypical MAGA voter. And yet listening to their views, it again occurred to me: if I could find such support for Trump in the middle of a Democratic heartland—what might it look like in the rest of the country?

https://quillette.com/2024/11/06/the-re ... nLjvUikqYQ

[aufbahrung]

[Tero]

From my blog:
Overall, it seems I have a very condescending view of my state's voters. It is. Not only that, Trump was the con man and they were the mark. The idea of the foreigners invading the USA is easy to convince. Just use the right video clips on Fox News. But beyond that, convincing 60% of my state that cutting taxes for billionaires will produce a good economy is quite a stretch. That takes some skill. If the election is just a casual event in their lives, that is just as bad. It should take a little more effort than making your weekly shopping list. Young males were apparently easily fooled by Trump and the likes of Joe Rogan. Here the comaprison is that they put as much thought into voting as in buying a new TV. Politics is just not part of their life. Other than watching the occasional Joe Rogan.

[Tero]

Biden and Garland failed. Should have charged Trump Jan 7th.
covie_93
10h10 hours ago
Joe Biden's AG: I will not allow the Justice Department “to be used as a political weapon.”
Leading candidate for trump's AG: "I want to drag their dead political bodies through the streets"

[aufbahrung]

Politics is in part showmanship. Fail at projecting showmanship then fail at politics. Where does the left go wrong that produces talented agitators when there's the chance of a uprising and fails when there's a democrat peaceful transition of power in the air?

[Tero]

Harris did great with showmanship. The election could have become a women's movement. Abortion and all. largely they failed to vote. Almost no trumpster women were taken to Harris side. Those married to MAGA.

Instead Trump made it a white male show. They will take care of the women. Whether they want to or not.

[Tero]

Musk can't be president, but he has a foot in the door and a plan.

Elon Musk suggests support for replacing democracy with government of ‘high-status males’
The theory suggests that the only people able to think freely are ‘high [testostrone] alpha males’ and ‘aneurotypical people’

https://l.threads.net/?u=https%3A%2F%2F ... T4pJI0FCaA

[Brian Peacock]

From my blog:
Overall, it seems I have a very condescending view of my state's voters. It is. Not only that, Trump was the con man and they were the mark. The idea of the foreigners invading the USA is easy to convince. Just use the right video clips on Fox News. But beyond that, convincing 60% of my state that cutting taxes for billionaires will produce a good economy is quite a stretch. That takes some skill. If the election is just a casual event in their lives, that is just as bad. It should take a little more effort than making your weekly shopping list. Young males were apparently easily fooled by Trump and the likes of Joe Rogan. Here the comaprison is that they put as much thought into voting as in buying a new TV. Politics is just not part of their life. Other than watching the occasional Joe Rogan.

Trump won the popular vote but hardly increased his 2020 numbers. What does that tell us?

[Tero]

That the extreme polling news brought home the message: you have to vote in a battleground states. Only. Trump's people were more scared of stuff he warned us of that the democrats there were scared ...of Trump.

[Brian Peacock]

Trump's economic remedy for the cost of living crisis is tariffs tariffs tariffs - something that by definition puts prices up. And yet the same people who voted for him last time voted for him again - even though they're going to get hit hardest by tariffs.

While the polls suggested that the economy was everyone's number-one priority, I don't think Trump's core vote was actually voting on economic issues. And if they were they've been deliberately sold a bum steer.

[Sean Hayden]

It would seem economic hardship is only good for one side of the cultural wars.

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I could be way off base here, but my sense is that polling data lacks explanatory power in regards to voter behavior, until someone develops a framework to account for the new environment we find ourselves in.

For example, when someone says economy, I ask, have you looked at his twitter feed?

[Tero]

He's good. Even I didn't know some of those terms. It pays to go to college. You too could be an Onion writer.

[Sean Hayden]

—ouch