Faced with a black/asian woman, the Republicans just aren’t going to be able to help themselves - their hateful bigotry is going to keep rearing its ugly head.
The key moment is going to be when Candidate Lardbucket himself lets some of his own racism and misogyny fall out of his festering gob. That’s going to be glorious.
Honestly, I more disappointed and surprised at more than a few older Dems I know saying they just “couldn’t bring themselves to vote a Black into the White House.”
We’ll never change the base. Their investment in Trump and conservatism is more akin to religious faith than ideology, and just as with religion, to question it would be to undermine the basis for their (clearly unjustified) conviction that they’re decent and moral.
I don’t think we really need to worry about changing their children either. Their children are already changing, which is an awful lot of the reason for their egregiously anti-democracy panic. They recognize at some level that the tide of history is turning against them, and they can’t stand it. They think they can stop that process through force and fraud, and don’t seem to understand that all they can do that way is maybe postpone it a bit, or that bybtrying to save their justly dying ideology that way, they ensure that a day of reckoning will come - that they’ll go down in history as not just an abandoned ideology, but a justly destroyed one.
The propaganda machine was full throttle on Biden is old and unfit, that as soon as switch happened Republicans were scrambling to grab onto the first thing they could come up with, of course racism and misogyny are the fallbacks.
I hear you and want to believe this too, but I am forever surprised at how much pro Trumpers are willing to ignore and just how many of them there are. His base will cheer him on and the rest will make excuses or turn a blind eye.
Ignore? I have it on unfortunately good authority that at least a decent chunk of his base agree with what he is spouting and are loving how he “speaks the truth” or “says what they’re all thinking”. Sadly he’s enabling more and more of them to feel comfortable saying the quiet part out loud and acting on their impulses.
He’s losing extremists to his VP pick having a immigrant wife and mixed race kids, and he’s losing moderate with his VP pick who is an extremist.
He’s soon to lose a huge amount of women over bodily autonomy, he’s promised to build concentration camps for Latinos, he’s literally citing ‘operation wetback’ as a mission statement. He’s gonna really eat shit when he’s the old idiot that can’t talk right versus the average mental acuity displayed by an opponent who is too young to retire, and has public speaking skills beyond the average 12 year old.
This is blowing up so severely, he’s already panicking.
You’re not. There has not been any room left for doubt for nearly a decade that he is anything but an opportunistic racist misogynistic queerphobic ableist christofascist grifter. Those who already support him will continue to cheer him on because he feeds directly in to their need to feel superior to “others”, and no one still on the fence is going to suddenly have an epiphany…
I have no doubt his base will ignore it at best, and an awful lot of them will cheer it on.
But the base doesn’t matter. They’ll vote for him absolutely no matter what.
What matters is all of the moderates and independents and such - all of the people who could go either way. They’re the ones who are likely to decide that Trump and the republicans are just too foul to support.
This is what I was waiting for.
Faced with a black/asian woman, the Republicans just aren’t going to be able to help themselves - their hateful bigotry is going to keep rearing its ugly head.
The key moment is going to be when Candidate Lardbucket himself lets some of his own racism and misogyny fall out of his festering gob. That’s going to be glorious.
They went from zero to fully mask-off in less than 24 hours. I’m amazed at the quickness of it.
If you were in a red state during the Obama campaign/presidency you wouldn’t be surprised.
Yeah, the overly racist shit that popped up all over rural NV was pretty disgusting.
Honestly, I more disappointed and surprised at more than a few older Dems I know saying they just “couldn’t bring themselves to vote a Black into the White House.”
I’d say that they’ve been mask-off for quite a while tbh.
Stayed mask off through the worst of covid, only put masks on to protest like little proud boys.
Honestly, I am too.
I fully expected it, but not this soon.
Looking forward to more though. Every one of these is just more votes against Trump.
My hope is not to change them. But it is to change their children. Or those adjacent. If we keep trying to change them, we will never win.
We’ll never change the base. Their investment in Trump and conservatism is more akin to religious faith than ideology, and just as with religion, to question it would be to undermine the basis for their (clearly unjustified) conviction that they’re decent and moral.
I don’t think we really need to worry about changing their children either. Their children are already changing, which is an awful lot of the reason for their egregiously anti-democracy panic. They recognize at some level that the tide of history is turning against them, and they can’t stand it. They think they can stop that process through force and fraud, and don’t seem to understand that all they can do that way is maybe postpone it a bit, or that bybtrying to save their justly dying ideology that way, they ensure that a day of reckoning will come - that they’ll go down in history as not just an abandoned ideology, but a justly destroyed one.
“they”
Little fish are taking these early bites. Don’t play along.
The propaganda machine was full throttle on Biden is old and unfit, that as soon as switch happened Republicans were scrambling to grab onto the first thing they could come up with, of course racism and misogyny are the fallbacks.
I’ve personally seen the “Genocide Joe” voices smoothly transition into “unhinged prosecutor” in no time flat.
I’d almost say they’re the default.
I hear you and want to believe this too, but I am forever surprised at how much pro Trumpers are willing to ignore and just how many of them there are. His base will cheer him on and the rest will make excuses or turn a blind eye.
I hope I’m wrong
Ignore? I have it on unfortunately good authority that at least a decent chunk of his base agree with what he is spouting and are loving how he “speaks the truth” or “says what they’re all thinking”. Sadly he’s enabling more and more of them to feel comfortable saying the quiet part out loud and acting on their impulses.
Where I come from, if you speak like the GOP does you’d get shot at.
Do you guys have any vacancies?
He’s losing extremists to his VP pick having a immigrant wife and mixed race kids, and he’s losing moderate with his VP pick who is an extremist.
He’s soon to lose a huge amount of women over bodily autonomy, he’s promised to build concentration camps for Latinos, he’s literally citing ‘operation wetback’ as a mission statement. He’s gonna really eat shit when he’s the old idiot that can’t talk right versus the average mental acuity displayed by an opponent who is too young to retire, and has public speaking skills beyond the average 12 year old.
This is blowing up so severely, he’s already panicking.
Come again?
Also, why did my keyboard let me swipe “wetback”? Racist-ass keyboard.
An Eisenhower-era deportation program that set up the current dynamic of militarized deportation and border control.
You’re not. There has not been any room left for doubt for nearly a decade that he is anything but an opportunistic racist misogynistic queerphobic ableist christofascist grifter. Those who already support him will continue to cheer him on because he feeds directly in to their need to feel superior to “others”, and no one still on the fence is going to suddenly have an epiphany…
He is also a convicted felon and has a civil judgement of being a rapist.
Adjudicated rapist just doesn’t have the same ring to it
I have no doubt his base will ignore it at best, and an awful lot of them will cheer it on.
But the base doesn’t matter. They’ll vote for him absolutely no matter what.
What matters is all of the moderates and independents and such - all of the people who could go either way. They’re the ones who are likely to decide that Trump and the republicans are just too foul to support.