Allow me to preface this
entry with the wise words of Larry the Cable Guy …
“Mea
culpa. Mea culpa. Lord, I apologize and please be with the starving
pygmies down in New Guinea. Amen."
I want to tell you what I
really detest about Trumpers. If you state contrary opinions and
your disgust for Trump, they bristle, label you something akin to a
“pussy” because you don't agree with them, and then denigrate you
by calling you something personal and profane like “a bastard,” “an asshole,” a “libtard,” or “a fucking
idiot.”
I'm not finished. Then,
when you stand up for yourself and tell them how you will not allow
anyone to make it personal and call you names, they immediately run
the stereotypical political banter of berating you as a “snowflake”
who supported President Obama at the expense – somehow? – of
their glorious leader, Donald Trump.
If any more dialogue
occurs, Trumpers question your allegiance to the Second Amendment, to
the Bible, and to the Right to Life. They attempt to discard any
modicum of reason or common sense and go straight into Trump Rally
mode decrying meaningless cliches like “Lock her up” or “Build
that wall.”
Oh, and I can't forget
their favorite taunting bogey word. Trumpers love to call anyone who
opposes them “Socialists.” While doing so, they scoff at climate
control; they call for an end to immigration; and they rattle on
about the evils of national health care. Yes, and finally, they begin
foaming at the mouth and mixing socialism, communism, and leftest
radicalism together to claim you are a gay-loving pervert who doesn't
know what bathroom to use.
A Trumper's white
nationalist agenda is always taken with claims of not being
prejudiced against minorities, not being misogynistic, and not being
religiously intolerant despite the thousands of despicable Donald
Trump tweets and comments to the contrary.
You see, the Trumpers
admire Trump for “speaking his mind” and making divisions because
they fear their power in America is dwindling and they are losing
control. Trumpers scapegoat blacks, Hispanics, and Muslims for their
misfortunes. When Trump lashes out, they see him as “the chosen
one,” a person who will bring back the antiquated, fractured,
white-dominated America of the past. They fear a black and brown
America.
Evangelical Trumpers
worship Trump without question. They listen to his speeches as if
they were sermons. They ignore his sins, lies and brutish ways
because they accept him as the great defender of their faith. Trump
tells them …
“We have God on our
side. Together, we’re not only defending our Constitutional rights,
we’re also defending religion itself, which is under siege, Every
Democrat candidate running for president is trying to punish
religious believers and silence our churches and our pastors.”
As he paints the religious
left with the broad and unfounded stroke of villainy, Trump
admonishes them as Godless threats to religious liberty. No matter
the denigration and the lies, evangelicals believe his every word.
They especially love his anti-abortion and anti-LBGTQ rhetoric as
well as his devotion to the belief that “every woman should serve
her mate.”
“By creating a
narrative of an evil “deep state” and casting himself — a
powerful white man of immense generational wealth – as a victim in
his own right, Trump not only tapped into the religious right’s
familiar feeling of persecution, but he also cast himself as its
savior, a man of flesh who would fight the holy war on its behalf.”
-- Alex
Morris, Rolling Stone
And,
my, oh my, how Trump brags about his fabulous economy. His supporters
believe this is the redeeming characteristic of his presidency. Trump
tweeted in July of 2019
"our
economy is the best it has ever been. Best employment and stock
market numbers ever." That is simply not true. However, marginal
Trumpers accept any inaccuracies and instead simply believe his lies
as they buy into the false narrative – “but, he is so good for
the economy” – even though they think he is, otherwise, inept in
office.
Trump’s
boasting is at odds with the reality of a surprisingly fragile U.S.
economy.
All of these Trump quotes are outright lies as verified by PolitiFact
National:
"When I was
campaigning, I was talking about 18 and 20 years (when) wages
effectively went down. Now, for the first time in a long time,
they're starting to go up for people."
Tariffs are "paid
for mostly by China, by the way, not by us."
"We hadn’t had a
(car) plant built in years – in decades, actually. And now we have
many plants being built all throughout the United States."
"Yesterday we had
the strongest dollar in the history of our country."
"Mexico is paying
for the Wall through the new USMCA Trade Deal."
Under the North
American Free Trade Agreement, "we lost millions of jobs."
"Watch those GDP
numbers. We started off at a very low number, and right now we hit a
3.2 (percent). Nobody thought that was possible."
The final point of my
diatribe is that Trumpers are simply appreciative of one trait above
all others – and I know no other nicer definitive way of putting it
– they love the way he fucks things up. Claiming to be
conservatives draining a Washington swamp, they spread
disinformation, conspiracy theories, and allegations of scandal
Trumpers' need for chaos
obliterates everything else. Trump's faithful – marginalized
status-seekers – employ “chaos incitement” as a strategy of
last resort. They adopt disruptive tactics, and Trump, in turn,
consistently seeks to strengthen the perception that America is in
chaos, a perception that has enhanced his support while seeming to
reinforce his claim that his predecessors, especially President
Barack Obama, were failures.
Through scapegoating and
jingoism, Trumpers vent their intense hostility to political
establishments in an effort to make the democratic system burn down.
Taking Trump's ineptitude to be some kind of misguided rectitude,
they view his narcissistic self-interest as something that will
somehow make America “great again.” Trump embodies the rage of
white nationals as they embrace his chaotic and reckless behavior.
Simply put, they love to fuck things up.
In closing, the defiant
Trump rally is the training ground for what has been described as “a
feedback loop of paranoia and hate.” During the rally, Trump’s
blend of personal attacks and insults, his focus on enemies, and his
preoccupation with seemingly peripheral issues such as the size of
his crowds feed his massive ego and the celebrity lust of his
stupefied legions. The spectacle is more akin to a scripted
performance of pro wrestling than to a political campaign. As people
cheer without reflection, they reinforce a sad dynamic of “America
first” because … well, simply “because” that's what Donald
told us to believe.
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