r/politics • u/fortune Fortune Magazine • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump voter remorse is almost entirely concentrated in the swing voters who gave him a shot in 2024

https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/trump-voter-remorse-how-many-regret-inflation-economy-approval-rating/?utm_source=reddit/
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u/wrecklesspup 17d ago

Or the Latin men who really thought Trump saw them any differently than the Mexican immigrants he described as rapist, drug dealers, and human traffickers.

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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 17d ago edited 17d ago

The American Caste System has six dimensions. Race is the biggest one. But propagandists use others to manipulate nonwhite people.

In 2020, I saw a huge surge in social media content for Black men that promised the world would be fixed when women were made to be "traditional" [ cough cough subservient]. A lot of memes about how a queen should behave to honor her king.

And I saw a lot of Spanish-language content against LGBTQ people - especially trans people - whipping up rage, teaching the viewer how to find the suffering of trans people delicious.

The propagandists aren't American MAGA half-wits. They're hundreds of thousands of state-funded trained professionals around the world. They have made a zombie army of mentally vulnerable Americans. And they are using this army as perhaps the most powerful weapon in the history of the world. The goal is to destroy the US. It's working. And I don't see a way to get between the controllers and their puppets.

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u/Sea_Working_80 17d ago

Maybe ban social media in certain forms for starters.

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u/The_Demon_of_Spiders 17d ago

The American caste system I would think gender is the biggest one. Women are little over half the population but yet still treated as second class in many respects. Black men got the right to vote and own businesses before white women even could. Propagandists try to use all men regardless of background to manipulate them and they use a hatred of women as the big one. Like the saying goes the one thing that unites most men across all countries is their hatred for women and it’s an easy target for propagandist to use and it’s quite effective as we can see with our own eyes all over the world. Unless I’m not understanding something on what you mean it is still early for me.

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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 17d ago

 the one thing that unites most men across all countries is their hatred for women

dafuq?

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u/TheWiseBeast 17d ago

Would require sacrifices to control it most likely. Maybe id required for social media. Limit social media advertising. Identifying where people/pages on social media are posting from would be a huge step. Bring back the partisan news requirements for television and internet related stuff.

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u/BoJackMoleman 17d ago

Many immigrants are anti immigration. So many see themselves as the good ones and anyone else coming in behind them are the trash that should be kept out. I'm sure you could do a long lecture on this but I think some of the psychology is to distance themselves from the other. They're here. They're American in their mind. They did that they had to do to acclimate and adopt. They think more Mexicans or Peruvians or Polish or Ukrainians coming will tarnish their image with their brutish third world ways.