GaryDenton wrote:You can tell what quality of a fascist Trump is by the quality of his supporters and their reasoning power. There are no coherent arguments for supporting Trump. We often have the incoherent ramblings posted here of his supporters.
I think Trump is a horrible human.
I think he’s a disaster of a President and dangerous to our Republic.
I disagree with 80%+ of his positions.
That said…
Extreme leftists dismiss him and his supports completely at their own peril. My evidence the… the 2016 (and even 2020) elections.
(… and the 2020 aftermath.)
Yes many of his supports are blind ignorant and racist. Not all can be characterized as such. If those were his only supporters he would not have had a chance in either election.
His “genius” (or his consultants genius) is he has been able to patch together (in a Frankenstein like manner) a coalition of support that gets him near 50% of the voting public.
*Otherwise intelligent, but extremely religious people, vote for him because he was their best path toward domination of the Supreme Court. He delivered on that and now he has these people in his camp 100%. Even though his personality and morals are in direct competition with the values of this group!
*He has borderline racist, isolationist, working class white peoples who (rightly or wrongly) feel as though they have been marginalized by the extreme Left and who hate the rhetoric that the Left forces down our throats with their “cancel culture”. These people sometimes overlap with their religious group but not entirely. They could be split if you could appeal to the true heart of Christian Americans.
*He has pro-business groups who want minimum regulation… and again the Left dismisses the power of this group. They are not a large group but they have money and lots of power. This group has very little in common with the middle group but they both love Trump! the
I’m sure with more time we could come up with other sub-groups he has in his coalition.
The point is to dismiss all his supporters (close to 50% of the voting population of the US) as ‘incoherent rambling idiots’ does not help you achieve the actual goal of getting a good President elected… and changing the path of this Country for the better.