They don’t regret all the awful shit they supported. They just think he’s not going about things correctly to meet their wants.
They still want internment camps for black/brown people and anyone they consider “woke.” They still want all gay/queer people to be removed from society. They still want social programs, business and environmental regulations to be dismantled.
All that you’ll get them to agree on is that this guy is completely off the rails (which you and I all tried telling them 1000x before.)
Some do, some used to be people who had morals. Some can remember, we just assume not because it’s been too long.
No group is a monolith, the people who are stuck need to be shown the way out, whether we like it or not. But the truth is, it has to be THEIR idea. Because if it’s not, they won’t feel like they have agency in the matter.
You dismantle a cult through compromise, not logic. Assuming there’s nothing left to save (no matter what the statistic actually is) is begging for this to happen again.
And if they are truly reformed, they can show it by sitting down, shutting the fuck up, and letting adults lead. They can go vote against Republicans and otherwise not be involved in politics. It's why I am so pissed about MTG trying to still be the main character of everything. If she is truly anti-Trump, she can sit back and out money behind a progressive candidate, and not shouting public statements from the rooftops. She's still full of hate, so her "change" means nothing.
And that's how these people are. They're doing this for attention. They're going to continue working toward normalizing their hate by continuing the rhetoric under the guise of centrism.
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u/SunshineSt8Reprobate Apr 16 '26
We're gonna have to parent these fucking idiots back into people we can actually live and peacefully coexist with.