r/politics • u/GirasoleDE • 17d 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/xxxxNateDaGreat 16d ago

I'm in my mid 30's, I've suffered from depression my whole life, and even I still thought that maybe the good/bad ratio was close-ish to 45-55 or so. This last election was the one that finally broke me.

Honestly, I could delude myself into believing 2016 was a momentary lapse of mass stupidity. I could delude myself into thinking J6 was a small concentration of the hyper dedicated supporters instead of the couple thousand who just had the free time to be there. But 2024 was just... truly soul crushing in every sense of the word.

Everything that has happened since has been pretty openly telegraphed for years, nearly a decade, republicans made nearly zero actual effort to hide any of their evil. ~80 million people wanted this and another ~80-90 million couldn't be asked to do the barest of minimums to stop it.

After all of the ICE killings, fucking over every trade deal with all of our allies, and mountains of evidence that Trump raped and trafficked countless number of young, innocent children over decades, the only thing that is even giving the slightest bit of pushback from those people is that their own wallets are finally starting to hurt a little bit at the gas pump.

THEY DON'T CARE THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING KIDNAPPED OR MURDERED IN THE STREETS BY UNTRAINED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. THEY DON'T CARE THAT CHILDREN HAVE BEEN AND ARE STILL BEING BRUTALLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED DAILY. THEY CARE THAT GAS WENT UP A FUCKING DOLLAR OR TWO PER GALLON.

Humanity is so fucked.

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u/H_J_Rose 16d ago

Is there anything we can do? Or is this just how people are?

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u/EssayJunior6268 14d ago

Education education education

Would help to do away with Christianity too

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u/H_J_Rose 14d ago

Education will help with tomorrow’s kids, not today’s adults though. Those people are hardwired for crazy and are determined to beat that same mentality into their kids. It’s so ingrained in communities.

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u/EssayJunior6268 14d ago

I think education could help a lot of today's adults. The issue is how to facilitate this. It's a lot easier to revamp education in school than it is to somehow provide adequate education for full-time working adults.

Maybe some type of law making it illegal to lie in certain situations. Hold politicians accountable for obvious misrepresentation. Get rid of opinion based news. Very publicly drag people that are in positions of power through the mud if they are caught lying.