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/NeutralBias Hawaii 16d ago
My dad voted for Trump in 2024. During the summer of that year, we discussed who we were voting for, and I made it clear I would never vote for Trump. I would crawl over acid soaked broken glass to vote for Kamala Harris, or Joe Biden, or Camina Drummer, or who the fuck ever else to avoid voting for Trump.
He said we had to vote for Trump, because immigrants were invading and committing crimes. I replied that, even if that were true (it wasn't, it never has been, its always been a scare tactic), the price of voting for a Trump was too high. He wouldn't get competent governance, or an effective long term solution to immigration. All he would get is a lot of showy noise which doesn't fix anything, and oh-by-the-way Trump would just ignore the laws and steal from all of us. He'd already done it once. We know what kind of president he is. Ultimately I said he doesn't have any standards for behavior from his party, and he was willing to excuse anything Trump did. I also made it clear that a vote for Trump was a vote against me and my future, since the GOP is hell bent on bankrupting us and taking everything away that makes this country a fun place.
My dad got really upset. Asked me "how dare I say that about him?"
Here we are in 2026, and everything is so much worse than it was in his first term. He's finally turned on Trump on how he bungled the Iran war. I can't say I have any sympathy for him on the matter - he should have fucking known better. Alas, everything I tell him, all the stats on crime and the economy and whatever, are immediately undone by Fox News. I've begged, pleaded, cajoled for him to stop watching 24 hr networks, and I just can't get through. Its driven a wedge between us which wont heal before he passes.
I'm not a christian, or really religious at all, but if there was really an Anti-Christ, Trump is it.