# Fuck Trump and his followers **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-trump-and-his-followers/1009749 **Category:** The BBQ Pit **Tags:** trump **Created:** [November 6, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-trump-and-his-followers/1009749 "2024-11-06T01:27:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 228
### Author: ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies) #### Post date: [November 11, 2024, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-trump-and-his-followers/1009749/228 "2024-11-11T13:45:03Z")
One reason that demagogues like Trump _need_ to point the blame at basically every single category of minority in the country: > [@Effects of Minimum Wage](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/effects-of-minimum-wage/920726/60): > > That’s a fair point, but we don’t see relatively affluent people being blamed for driving up the stock market. And … yet … as I mentioned earlier in this thread … those investment dollars aren’t in mason jars in the yard, in mattresses, or in piggy banks. They’re in the pipeline and are somewhat traceable. As is money put in banks and other savings vehicles. Meaning … that money is being spent. In the process, it creates upward pricing pressure. But we aren’t blaming the wealthy for their … Trump and _his_ ilk did 99% of the damage _to_ ‘non-college white men’ that they suffer from, now. But as they wade in legitimate economic misery, they _still_ write him checks on the regular. And @Lumpy insists that demagogues and propaganda don’t really influence people’s thoughts, opinions, and votes? It is to laugh. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-trump-and-his-followers/1009749)._