Rudy Canoza
2024-12-24 20:27:35 UTC
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PermalinkTrump’s lies, and will support him until the end.
By Adam Serwer
At a rally just outside Atlanta in late October, thousands of Donald Trump
supporters lined up in the punishing southern sun to see their hero; some had
driven hours from out of state. Vendors hawked T-shirts with slogans such as Say
no to the ho, and Roses are red, Hunter smokes crack, Joe Biden has dementia and
Kamala isn’t Black, sometimes chanting the phrases out loud to amused onlookers.
Hundreds of people still standing in the winding queue shuffled off into a
disappointed crowd when told that the venue was now full. Many hung around
outside, browsing the vendors’ wares or grabbing a bite at one of the nearby
food trucks. They were there to see Trump, but also to enjoy the sense of
belonging that comes from being surrounded by the like-minded. They were there
to see and be seen, dressed in MAGA hats, MAGA shirts, MAGA tights. Service dogs
decked out in stars and stripes, men in silk shirts printed with an image of a
bloodied Trump raising his fist. As “Y.M.C.A.” blared from inside the venue,
Trump supporters stopped their conversations to sing along and shape their arms
with the chorus.
The first time Trump ran for president as a Republican, when I spoke with his
followers I encountered a superficial denial of Trump’s prejudice that suggested
a quiet approval of it. They would deny that Trump made bigoted remarks or
proposed discriminatory policies while also defending those remarks and policies
as necessary. What I found this time around were people who were far more deeply
embedded in an unreality carefully molded by the Trump campaign and right-wing
media to foment a sense of crisis—and a belief that they were being exploited by
a shadowy conspiracy that Trump alone could vanquish. Whereas many supporters I
spoke with at rallies in 2016 rationalized or dismissed Trump’s yarns as
exaggerations or bombast, in 2024 they would repeat them solemnly and earnestly,
as gospel.
The conspiracy theories, particularly surrounding immigration, are significant
because they justify extreme measures—Trump’s promises to strip critical news
outlets of their broadcast licenses, prosecute political rivals, and purge the
federal government of “the enemy within.” Yet some supporters I spoke with also
seemed either unaware or disbelieving of the plans that Trump and his allies
have for a second administration. There is a disconnect between what Trump and
his allies intend to do in power and what many of the people who would vote him
in believe he would do.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/11/trump-campaign-cruelty/680498/
Trumpswabs are stupid gullible cultists. They like being brainless.
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Every Republiscum/QAnon accusation is, in fact, a confession