Yes, good point. I understand the deportations for example are still very popular.
(Even though these deportations are now including ignoring due process, court orders and the constitution. If this admin wants to deport criminals, they should be including seats for themselves)
Interviewing people personally affected gives a misleading picture. The majority of Trump voters are cheering that shit on.
ETA: Just realized this sounds like a downer on this thread. But regardless of what overall opinions are, it’s good some people are learning the truth, and we can enjoy schadenfreude towards the rest.
That’s very true, and I’m always very suspicious of some of the viral social media posts, especially those from Reddit, that claim to be from Trump supporters.
A few years ago there was a Reddit post on a conservative leaning forum that appeared to be from a particular clueless Trump supporter that was this close to getting it. The post was quoted in several news stories and went moderately viral.
I had been a participant in the original Reddit thread, the poster communicated with me privately and he was a liberal playing with the Trump supporters in the forum. So now I always look at all these posts really critically and most of them don’t pass the smell test.
I think we will see some regretful Trump supporters peel off from around the edges and once they start voicing their feelings it might seem significant, but a large portion of his supporters aren’t going anywhere.
It’s also important to remember that the media is almost completely siloed at this point, and the newscasts you are seeing bear absolutely no resemblance to the ones the Trump supporters are watching.
You will see supporters leaving who were themselves affected by Trump’s policies. You may see a few on the edges going “Wait a minute - they’re breaking the law!”, but I fear those will be few and far between.
Chief Justice Roberts, were you not familiar with the person your court gave full presidential immunity to?
(From today’s New York Times:)
Chief Justice John G. Roberts rebuked President Trump in a rare public statement after the president called for a judge’s impeachment on Monday. “Impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision,” Justice Roberts wrote, hours after Mr. Trump called the judge a “Radical Left Lunatic” in a social media post and said he should be removed from the bench.
Roberts must know that the current Congress just might go along with the madness. Sucks to be him right now. He can push back or cave. I hope he does the right thing.
After trump’s not-SOTU, he shook hands with Roberts and said “Thanks for everything”. He’s 100% in the tank for trump, and trump knows it.
That said, I don’t think there’s an ulterior motive in Roberts speaking out on threats against the judiciary. As unprincipled a person as he is, he still doesn’t want to see the judiciary completely collapse on his watch.
I’ve posted too often that I think we’re heading into a pretty nasty recession. A small part is that we were due, and a large part is Trump’s doing.
I think that will knock a lot of voters off the train. His voters care about the economy and immigration, in that order. Everything else is a distant third.
Of course, that’s part of the point of undercutting what’s left of democracy. Once the Republicans can simply declare themselves the winners it won’t matter how popular they are; their base will go into the "your usefulness is at an end" pile.
I got to thinking about her and looked her up. She’s living in Mexico with her husband and kids. She managed to deport herself. That’s how stupid these people are.
I wouldn’t call it a hope (much less an expectation), but there may be a realization at SCOTUS that if they roll over and play dead for the Orange Peril, they’ve consigned themselves to irrelevance. And while the likes of Alito and Thomas may have no problem with that on principle*, they ought to realize that should that happen, the sweet sweet grift will mostly dry up: the movers&shakers who have been doling out “gratuities” are far less likely to keep doing so when the recipients can no longer provide the quo for the quid.
Once again: the supreme court basically worked for Trump the last few years when he didn’t even have any power. They slow-walked any attempts to hold Trump accountable, massively fast-tracked anything that would help Trump, including waving through an immunity ruling that most legal experts thought was an absolute non-starter moon shot.
And Roberts was chief justice the whole time.
If this isn’t sufficient to conclude he’s in the tank for Trump, what exactly do we need to see? A rename of Supreme Court to Trump Bigly Court?