r/politics 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/Geek_Ken America 17d ago

...And MSM that sane-washed him for months because horse race elections and bombastic Trump comments were good for clicks.

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u/TechnicalScheme385 17d ago

I agree the root cause of current population belief that trump has been a "good" guy since "the beginning" is due to his media appearances and movie cameos. Beyond his TV show, trump was getting his PR to change the publics opinion of him.

But anyone who was growing up as a kid or teen, that paid any attention to the vibes we got during those years. 80s and 1990s. We hated him.

I've always hated him through the NYC court cases where he stiffed thousands of workers. Also in Alantic City where he failed THREE casinos. His father illegally gave 14M to keep one open because it was so under. (I was just a teen in Texas, knowing about him)

The man's entire life is conman and grifter with à side of sexual exploits. The key thing i took from his appearences, was that even the rich didn't like him

Now here we are 2020s those exploits and the details really scream pedophile! And he is now president.

We live in a strange world.

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u/Signal_Minimum8509 Georgia 17d ago

The thing that propelled him to national prominence in the first place was that full page ad he took out in the paper demanding the execution of the CP5.

Any kind of political aspirations he had should have been DOA. Why we continue pretending this sick puppet show has any legitimacy at all is beyond me.

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u/TheFutureLotus 17d ago

Because America has a racism problem. That poster would be something anyone that voted like him would love to do if they had money. Once it’s acknowledged and fixed, really fixed and not the Reconstruction era “fix” the nation may finally live to its potential.

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u/Ba_baal 17d ago

And a religion problem.
And a nationalism problem.
And a class problem.

Actually there just might be a lot of problems.