People voted for him because he will hurt gays, immigrants, feminists, and so on. Hurting others was the whole point, not a bonus.
Yeah!
No, wait.
Is this one of those non sequiturs I’ve heard about?
There’s a current thread about this and I don’t believe “because he will hurt gays, immigrants, feminists, and so on” was one of the reasons anyone listed.
Trump’s positions on gay rights, immigrants, feminists and so on garnered him no votes at all?
ISTR you yourself have made the point that pissing off the libtards is a goal in itself.
I am curious why one refers to “libtards” instead of Democrats.
I think you’re mistaken on this point, but I’m open to the possibility that it’s I who is mistaken. Do you have a cite?
I don’t do it because I got warned for it once (before I was later un-warned). It’s supposedly against the rules, but liberals seem to get a pass for doing it.
Would you feel it would be an accurate characterization of some of Hillary’s supporters that they ‘voted for her because she will hurt gun owners. Hurting them was the whole point, not a bonus’? Or does that come across a tad overwrought to you?
Sure, I would gladly assume/concede that Sandy Hook parents probably voted for Clinton because they saw her as someone who might do something about guns. (That doesn’t mean she actually would do so - note that gun laws loosened during Obama’s term.)
In fact, I think it is perfectly obvious that this was the case.
Do you not perceive a difference between “do something about X” and “hurting them was the whole point”? That is, I think, the distinction you are either missing or intentionally blurring.
Personally I think HRC was someone who “might to something about guns”. It would have almost certainly been something I didn’t like, but even I wouldn’t go so far as to say that ‘hurting gun owners was the whole point’. The anti-gun liberals have somewhat nobler goals, even if they choose misguided methods to achieve them. Same with the pro-life crowd: one could reasonably make the argument that overturning Roe v Wade would hurt feminists, but I don’t think that is the motive behind the people pushing for it’s overturning. They have nobler goals centered on saving the lives of unborn children. The “point” is to save lives, not hurt feminists.
Most Trump supporters have limited knowledge and lack of interest in politics.
So do most Hillary supporters.
If that’s a reference to things I’ve posted in the past, I stand by what I’ve written.
I’ve never said that everyone from the South is a traitor. But the Confederates? They were Americans who left the United States and then declared war on the United States. That’s the literal definition of treason.
If some British poster wants to tell me that people like Washington, Jefferson, and Adams were traitors to Britain, I’ll agree. I won’t pretend that they were somehow being loyal to London when they declared independence.
I’ve never heard any pro-life people saying how they enjoy making the feminists cry. I have heard Trump supporters saying things like that.
What do you think the overlap is between “pro-life people” and “Trump supporters”?
Watch his rallies, you want to know who they are. I have, to an extent limited by mental hygiene. I am sure at some point he talks about freedom and equality, or warm food and good schools for all children, and the crowd murmurs in polite agreement.
But you want to hear the call of the abyss, its “Lock her up!” and “Build that wall!”. Its political porn and those are the money shots.
What’s the overlap between people pleased that innocent Hispanic children are being abused and “Trump supporters”?
What’s the overlap between people who thought the Bengahzi Inquisition didn’t go on long enough but pursuing Trump crimes is a travesty, and “Trump supporters”?
What’s the overlap between people who pretend to support a balanced budget but love Trump’s tax cuts (and pretend they’re not primarily for the rich) and “Trump supporters”?
What’s the overlap between people who think whites are a persecuted race and “Trump supporters”?
What’s the overlap between people who think mainstream media is just as biased as FoxNews and “Trump supporters”?
The temporary tax cuts.
Here’s the overlap of consequence in the election:
The overlap of people who voted for Obama and people who voted for Trump. About 9% or more of O voters went T.
“LEANING REPUBLICAN A Pew Research Center panel study found that fully 18 percent of white working-class voters who leaned Democratic as late as December 2015 reported leaning Republican by December 2016. That timing is significant: It implies that these voters continued to tilt toward the Democrats all the way until the 2016 campaign.”
Yes Trump pulled the racist (white identitarian) democrats along with some minorities out from under Clinton and she collapsed. The true story of the election.