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originally posted by: Euronymous2625
Donald Trump being Donald Trump enabled Joe Biden to win in 2020.
TextI see this argument a lot from Trump supporters. Here's what I think you don't understand.
Trump's most ardent supporters practically worship him because they want a transformative figure who can remake America according to a particular vision. Think about his mantra: "Make America Great Again". That implies that America used to be great, no longer is, but that he and only he can restore that condition. Remember his 2016 campaign claim? "I alone can fix it!"
As near as I can tell, the MAGA vision is to try to make the America of the 2020s just like the America of the 1950s, although they aren't quite that explicit about it. That was a time when white, Christian men pulled virtually all societal levers of power--economic, political, cultural. Women were supposed to be subservient breeders. Blacks, Mexicans, and others with too much melanin in their skin were supposed to stay out of sight and not get uppity. Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Bhuddists and Atheists would be tolerated as oddities as long as there weren't too many of them. The US had big stick energy internationally and could act unilaterally on anything we wanted to. We could go and knock over small countries on a whim and lie about it and get away with it. Nobody could outproduce the US and we all had good paying factory jobs. We all drove big front engine rear-drive cars with big gas-guzzling V-8 engines and used as much water as we wanted in the shower. We all listened to rock and roll songs about Peggy Sue and watched John Wayne single handedly tame the Wild West about half a dozen times and then go on to win World War II another half dozen times. Gangsta Rap was not a thing. The only sexuality was Heterosexuality. We could glorify the Confederacy without guilt.
Those were the good old days, and Trump supporters worship him because they think God has sent him to redress all their cultural grievances and bring those days back. They construct Gold statues of him. They buy collectible trading cards depicting a scowling Trump in superhero costumes holding lightning bolts in his hand and the Sun rising out of his butthole. They believe any lie he makes up on the spur of the moment just because it's His lie and he's probably playing 4-D chess. All the MAGA men want to be like him because he's an "Alpha Male" with a ton of money and a trophy wife. All the MAGA women want to have his babies. In other words, the MAGA crowd doesn't want a President; they want a messiah, a deliverer, someone to lead them on a Jihad (oops, I mean a Crusade). Someone impossibly larger than real life who doesn't play by the rules.
But here's the thing. That's not actually the President's job, as described in the Constitution and Federal laws. Moreover, a President can't actually do any of that stuff, which is why Trump's shtick is basically a con job. He's a snake oil salesman who knows that his followers want to believe that his snake oil is the answer for whatever their problem happens to be.
For Biden supporters, those big personality cult rallies where Dear Leader basically mumbles the exact same things over and over to an adoring crowd are a bug, not a feature. Biden supporters are not looking for someone who can restore meaning to their wretched, aggrieved lives by transforming society. We're not looking to join a cult of personality. We are mostly relatively content with our lives and America's place in the world and simply want someone who actually executes the office of the Presidency without a lot of drama. That means playing by the rules first and foremost. The only oath of office that an incoming President takes is to play by the rules. Trying to guess which parts of the Constitution, the Law, or social norms the occupant of the White House might have violated yesterday and might violate tomorrow shouldn't be the first thing the nation has to talk about in the morning and the last thing we talk about at night. Biden supporters want a normal, if somewhat boring President.
For the 60% of the population that doesn't like Trump, boring is good.
originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: WeMustCare
Omission was one tool among many, but the election was stolen right in front of our eyes...in plain sight...and you're letting the Marxists shame you for pointing out that Biden s**t his diaper. Stop bowing to them and stand your ground!
originally posted by: Disgusted123
And Donald being Donald is going to sink him in 2024.
And then we all are going to have to listen to his sheep/cult whine about it for ANOTHER FOUR YEARS.
Good God!
a reply to: Euronymous2625
originally posted by: mysterioustranger
a reply to: WeMustCare
Well ..aside from all that....."So, when someone says there was NO WIDESPREAD FRAUD, they are wearing mental blinders".
Therefore? Logic denotes...then, there WAS FRAUD. Just not widespread. But, still.....
originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: WeMustCare
I'm not buying it. This is just another way republicans are being told they did not see what they saw during the 2020 election and before, as well as after.
Trump filled stadiums during his campaign and Biden couldn't fill a parking lot.
Trump can string two sentences together. Biden has trouble with one.
Biden's gaffes alone during his campaign were enough to show his ineptness as a potential leader, except to penguins who line up to jump off a cliff.
We saw thousands of votes change from one side to the other in front of our eyes on CNN.
Then republican observers locked out of vote counting rooms and cardboard taped or held over the windows to prevent any observation, in swing states especially.
We now know there are thousands of dead people still on voter rolls in some states, not to mention all the issues with mail-ins and the machines.
The list can go on and on.
Omission was one tool among many, but the election was stolen right in front of our eyes...in plain sight...and you're letting the Marxists shame you for pointing out that Biden s**t his diaper. Stop bowing to them and stand your ground!
Rant over.
originally posted by: Boomer1947
originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: WeMustCare
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Trump filled stadiums during his campaign and Biden couldn't fill a parking lot.
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I see this argument a lot from Trump supporters. Here's what I think you don't understand.
For the 60% of the population that doesn't like Trump, boring is good.
More at: www.westernjournal.com...
Judicial Watch filed a wrongful death suit for $30 million Thursday against the federal government for the shooting of Jan. 6, 2021 protestor Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol.
The conservative public interest firm filed the lawsuit in federal district court in southern California on behalf of Babbitt’s husband, Aaron Babbitt, and her estate.