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CNN Poll:6 out of 10 Trump voters will "never, ever" stop approving of Trump
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Chaos2Frozen
Member
"He's not talking about me!"
Feels like american politics have become some weird mix between cults and sports team fans with all the propaganda and lack of education frying our brains.
Astral Dog
Member
And Twinks for Trump
They can make this distinction, but when someone talks about racist people in the party
"HOW DARE THEY CALL ME RACIST!!"
There is a difference between being uneducated because of structural issues and people being willfully ignorant and part of this odd anti-intellectual movement. To say there is nothing someone can do to make you dislike him is insane. This isn't a God he is a regular person and to follow him so blindly when information is so readily available is ridiculous.
Yeah. I don't really have any solutions. It feels like something drastic is coming.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Liberals totes need to move right and convince these guys to vote democrat!
UberTag
Member
6 out of 10 Trump voters are racist Nazi-sympathizers. Good to know.
I will judge them accordingly.
Also, white straight males have no business supporting that monster, either. Signed... a white straight male.
I will judge them accordingly.
I respect people who enjoy self-mutilation more than Trump voters because they're, at least, not motivated by imposing pain and intolerance on other people who don't deserve it. Just themselves.
Also, white straight males have no business supporting that monster, either. Signed... a white straight male.
BoboBrazil
Member
If you support Trump at this point you are a racist or idiot. Most likely both.
Well these things are obviously Barack Hussein Obama's fault, so why would it affect their support of Trump?
Obligatory Trump thread caveat: this is sarcasm.
That's what I said. Add Clinton voters and it's like 75%. That's way more potential votes than the strategy of trying to flip the Obama-Trump voters that has been periodically been thrown around since election night.
Lord_Byron28
Member
I'd say he can dip down to 20-25% but only after some extended time.
iRAWRasaurus
Banned
Meh they prob will never change their minds cause "fuck you, stop throwing SJWs, PC, etc my way! And it's fun to make you mad!"
Minty_Freshness
Neo Member
Frustrating as hell, yes. But doesn't this:
"Six in 10 people who approve of President Donald Trump (61%)"
Mean 60% of those that currently support him, not the total number of votes he got?
"Six in 10 people who approve of President Donald Trump (61%)"
Mean 60% of those that currently support him, not the total number of votes he got?
Yeah I always find this weird. Some of the most hardcore trump fans I see on twitter are middle aged women. Is it something regarding a "strong" manthat they like or am I just saying nonsense
madstarr12
Member
The problem, is that there are many young people who voted for him in certain states. Deplorables will remain here for a long time.
Your Entertainer
Member
Head in sand brain dead ignorance or gold medal level mental gymnastics
Imagine for your whole life you've thought, "if only someone like ME was in charge, things would be different! It's all those lousy Washington politicians mucking everything up."
Finally, someone like you has a chance! Sure, he's a billionaire and kinda weird, but he tells it like it is! He ain't politically correct! And he's fearless in the way he tears down those lousy Washington politicians! He sounds like you. Why, he practically IS you up there! And he says so! He's your voice!
And then it turns out your avatar, the embodiment of your hopes, dreams and self-image, is not only a blithering idiot (which you could excuse) but completely incompetent at the job you wanted him to have so badly (which you can't).
Some folks will quietly slink away, casting yet another pebble of disappointment onto the mountain.
Some folks will cast their fury outwards and look for yet another firebrand.
And some, faced with the prospect of admitting a failure so profound, so personal, will do anything in their power not to face it.
Finally, someone like you has a chance! Sure, he's a billionaire and kinda weird, but he tells it like it is! He ain't politically correct! And he's fearless in the way he tears down those lousy Washington politicians! He sounds like you. Why, he practically IS you up there! And he says so! He's your voice!
And then it turns out your avatar, the embodiment of your hopes, dreams and self-image, is not only a blithering idiot (which you could excuse) but completely incompetent at the job you wanted him to have so badly (which you can't).
Some folks will quietly slink away, casting yet another pebble of disappointment onto the mountain.
Some folks will cast their fury outwards and look for yet another firebrand.
And some, faced with the prospect of admitting a failure so profound, so personal, will do anything in their power not to face it.
Saint Gregory
Member
The Republicans in congress are the ones who need to be most concerned about this. It means they're married to Trump now until death does them part.
Wag
Member
Some women are into that.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Means nothing when states keep people uneducated perpetually
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
So, when trump goes down for treason, we pass the trump voter act that strips these people from voting in federal elections. They can fuck their states, but they are obviously too ignorant/stuck in their ways to be trusted in a federal election.
I am the same and I hate his guts. I was implying thatthis is the only group that he specifically looks after their interests. See white nationalist agenda.
Many people vote on: how will this candidate help me? While not treally giving a shit about the greater good.
Yeah. All it took was a video game dispute for young white men to go completely apeshit. The culture is still dumb.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Too bad the education system right now is so fucked up.
Yeah, after browsing The Donald a few times when bad news hits, I knew these people don't live in our reality. Their faith in him is unshakeable.
I think this is the thing that differentiates the USA from other Western countries (that certainly have their own issues) - the undying, fanboy like refusal to deviate from a taken position. Like, Hollande had an approval rating of 3%! Whereas Bush was still in high 20s (iirc) despite two of the biggest blunders in decades.
None of them will admit to supporting him to begin with.
He seems like a demagogue until the lights come on and the roaches scatter.
RustyNails
Member
Does france have an equivalent of Fox News and conservative AM radio, which reaches pretty much every rural community?
WiiredShawn
Member
In a nutshell, this. If people's physical immune systems were as good as their emotional ones, we might be immortal.
Zeuanimals
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NoRéN;246387042 said:
Orange County?
AngmarsKing701
Member
Hillary was wrong. There's no way that many deplorables can fit in a basket.
Dash_Riprock
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Voted majority Democrat last election. First time since 1936...
vatstep
This poster pulses with an appeal so broad the typical restraints of our societies fall by the wayside.
This isn't even about politics for most of them. He can fail spectacularly, blatantly lie, not fulfill any of his campaign promises, and it won't matter. They just like him for some reason.
TrueDefault
Member
Internalised misogyny, pretty much.
Yeah, like Nixon all over again. Although I think liking Trump will ultimately see even more stigma than Nixon does after it's all said and done
aspiegamer
Member
Something like this came up in PoliGAF today. 6ish of 10 out of the entire voter pool for Trump happens to coincide with the 27% Crazification Factor, which is the theoretical floor of support to any political thing in modern times. Even W in his last months only dropped a few points below it and he was entirely responsible for a horrible war and then tanked the economy! Starting at 35% or so it becomes exponentially harder to lose any further support because you'd already lost all of the opposing party and independents. With only your own party to turn on you, the Crazification Factor is where you bottom out.
LoserMakesGood
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Probably reminds them of dad
BoboBrazil
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With Fox News and stuff like Facebook and Twitter where people can be in like minded hives I doubt any mordern politician could go under 30%.
WiiredShawn
Member
I think adj_noun's post covers said reason. Trump embodies their worldview - he's ignorant like they are, he speaks poorly like they do, he has animosity for intellectuals and "elites" like they do (despite being an educated and rich New Yorker, 'cause irony is lost on these people), he wants to get rid of immigrants like they do, he pays lip service to Christian values like they do, and he has the "success" they so desperately crave for themselves. He's an old, rich white man who "speaks from the gut" and wants to restore their nostalgic view of an America that was exclusively for them and their fucked up values - without a shred of awareness that old, rich white men are the primary drivers of the income inequality that has forced so much struggle upon them.
He'll definitely go under 30.
I wish. Although one did mention she lives in Huntington Beach(not shocking).
Downtown Los Angeles.