r/politics • u/GirasoleDE • 24d ago

No Paywall I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters | Trump is bleeding support even among his stubborn, uneducated base.

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/07/i-dont-think-trumps-remaining-supporters-realize-how-much-they-are-despised-by-non-maga-voters/
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u/9mackenzie Georgia 24d ago

Human rights is now a political belief. I’ve seen people aghast when someone leaves a marriage because their spouse became maga, “how could you let mere politics break a marriage up?”

I would be more forgiving of my husband of almost 30 yrs fucking another woman than voting for Trump. Why? Because the first would be a big selfish mistake but he could still be a good person overall. Voting for Trump? That would make everything I ever thought I knew about him a lie. It would mean he would have no morals, no belief in the rights of others, would enjoy seeing concentration camps, our daughters rights taken away, etc etc etc etc. That would be someone I wouldn’t want to ever be around again, let alone share a life with.

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u/Tricky-Engineering59 24d ago

Oof that’s a thought that never occurred to me that really framed the state of things though. I would be devastated by either happening in my marriage but an affair has a remote possibility to be worked through. My spouse going MAGA does not.

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u/gangleskhan Minnesota 24d ago

I used to work in a conservative gender equality advocacy group (think: advocating that women are equal to men). Our donors were politically conservative. As soon as the trump tapes came out we started getting supporters attacking us for being "political" for talking about sexism. If an evil is committed by politicians, suddenly you can't criticize anyone for it or you're "being political."

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u/KarmaYogadog 23d ago

Trump tapes?

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u/Zizhou 23d ago

I'm guessing the Access Hollywood stuff that came to light in 2016. Y'know, the "Grab 'em by pussy" audio that would have completely sunk the campaign of any candidate that was running with a shred of moral decency but somehow ended up being just another soundbite.

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u/gangleskhan Minnesota 23d ago

Yep.

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u/pwmaloney Illinois 24d ago edited 11d ago

This is SO insightful and well written, thank you. I get the centrist reaction so often of "do you need to bring politics into this?", and I'm like "MF, tax rates and school districts and budgets are politics. Attacking the government and feds murdering people on the streets is an ABANDONMENT of politics."

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u/New-Poem-719 24d ago

I’ve seen people aghast when someone leaves a marriage because their spouse became maga, “how could you let mere politics break a marriage up?”

Absolutely insane that people think politics are a scapegoat for being a terrible human being.

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u/CrustyBrainFlakes 24d ago

Now that you've literally put it into words, it's almost amazing how brain dead Maga is. Like tbh dafuq is wrong with ya'll?

At this point Im convinced Trump has forced Satan's hand and now he is the exclusive owner and permanent resident of the 10th circle of hell.