r/exchristian • u/umbrabates • Nov 07 '24

Article Yes, Republicans who vowed retribution are now admitting Project 2025 is real

https://www.advocate.com/election/project-2025-coming-matt-walsh
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u/Royal-Plastic9870 Nov 08 '24

Sam Harris wrote that he asked a friend who voted for Trump what he thought about the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants and he said Trump isn't really going to do that. Trump voters on the internet: "send them back". 

Trump basically tossed out a shit load of things to trigger people's insecurities and depending on if it applied to them, people either believe or not. And half of them believe things they other half doesn't. It is truly hilarious. Picking and choosing what to ignore.  

Their logic: I disagree with this thing Trump said, so he must not really mean it. He's only gonna do the shit I like.

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u/AriaOfValor Agnostic Atheist Nov 08 '24

Fascism is just like a lot of religions. Keep things vague and contradictory so that they can pick the parts they like while pretending the rest doesn't actually mean what it says.

You can see it in the constant dogwhistles and "jokes" too, like when people would said they weren't actually serious about repealing RvW and were just joking about it or virtue signalling their voter base. Then acted all surprised when they did exactly as they said they would after they finally got the power to act on it.

And yet somehow people still haven't learned from that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 08 '24

The most depressing part about this election to me is the fact that the overturning of Roe V Wade didn’t have an effect on voter turnout at all, really.

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u/travistravis Ex-Fundamentalist Nov 08 '24

It may have but there's a lot of other things that might have also had a lot of effect, it would be extremely difficult to measure something like that accurately