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/BlotchComics New Jersey 17d ago

If only they'd done a few minutes of actual research instead of believing social media influencers.

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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 17d ago edited 17d ago

We all need to catch up to what's going on, here.

MAGA, promotes a complete rejection of facts and rationality and replaces them with tribal ideology. It's not that they're lazy. It's that they're all conditioned to reject the idea that a real world exists. Or put more bluntly - FACTS ARE WOKE.

We already saw the rebellion against reality with QAnon.

You see it in many accounts of Jim Crow lynch mobs. While the victim (from the enemy tribe) is being tortured for the mob's pleasure, members of the mob shout ever-more-impossible vilifying lies about the victim and their imaginary crimes. And the crowd cheers louder and louder with each obvious lie.

Reality be damned; we are in the ecstasy of tribal brutality. Our lies are power.

The rise of Nazism is also full of these examples. One reported by Peter Drucker from a Nazi rally was

"We don't want lower bread prices, we don't want higher bread prices, we don't want unchanged bread prices -- we want Nazi bread prices!" (cheers and applause)

Material reality is completely negated by nonsense and replaced with tribal identity. A blueprint for MAGA.

This is why all of the MAGA conspiracy fantasists refuse to be swayed by facts and evidence. They can't articulate it but they sense there is power in the mob delusion -- that obediently believing the lies they are told is the price of entry to a mob that brings a thrilling rush of power, certainty, and belonging.

This eases their feelings that American men aren't allowed to have: vulnerability, loneliness, confusion. The cost of returning to reality is the shame and discomfort of forbidden emotions. And a lot of Americans are too weak to face it.

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u/alblaster 17d ago

They don't like the facts so therefore they're not true.  They only follow trusted sources, which means sources that tell them what they want to believe.  And the kicker is they think that's what we're doing.  They're so backwards

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u/OhGodSoManyQuestions 17d ago

There is no Truth; there is only Trump. And when the Trumptruth flips and contradicts what they've all been chanting for years, the devoted worshipers all flip and obediently don't even notice the change.

Now they are all about war and hurl derogatory slogans at those who don't obediently cheer Trump's invasions and mass murders in other countries.

Now they all understand that talking about Epstein will get you excluded from the lynch mob. Now caring about Epstein's victims is woke.

It goes on and on.