Those who still support Trump are not nice people. I no longer believe that there are any

[Atticus]

exceptions to that.

If you still support Trump, it is inconceivable that you do so out of ignorance, which may have been true for some in 2016. I understand that not everyone is as immersed in politics as we are here on DU and I am willing to concede that some of the inattentive "low information" voters in that last election may have been genuinely unaware of the monstrous incompetence and moral bankruptcy of Trump. But, unless you have been comatose for these past three years, you can no longer credibly claim that excuse.

No, if you still wearing your MAGA cap, you are advertising your support and approval of transparent racism, misogyny and homophobia. You are saying that there is no value in science, no difference between fact and opinion and no reason to tell the truth unless it serves your interest better than a lie.

If your bumper sports a "Trump 2020" sticker, it is telling the world that you value wealth over integrity, you equate cruelty with strength and kindness with weakness.

You are not kind or honest. You are not generous or tolerant. You do not love or share or play well with others.

You are not nice.

[GopherGal]

1. I was thinking about this yesterday

Do I still leave room for someone to be merely entitled and dangerously delusional? Or is the only option "Trump supporter = shit human being"?
I think it's dangerously close to the latter.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. And the shame is that many here (like me) have Trumpers in our family.

[DBoon]

6. "entitled and dangerously delusional" is not a nice person to me

in fact, I describe those type of people as evil.

[SharonAnn]

37. They want to force everyone to bend their knee to them. Power. That's it.

No respect for others.

No consideration for others.

"My way or the highway" is their operative mode. All of them. Even those I initially thought were just misguided.

No, the naked compulsion to power over others underlies everything they do. With that, they can enable their greed.

[thegoose]

55. They don't have any power

Don't worry, pal. They're jut shitbags. Howling at the moon.

[madaboutharry]

2. There can be no other explanation at this point.

Trump has shown the world who he is; a vile disgusting evil man filled with hate and mentally deranged.

Anyone supporting him now is suffering from the same sickness.

[rockfordfile]

4. They see themselves in that pos

[Skittles]

5. I agree

if you are still supporting Trump you are one UGLY, UGLY HUMAN BEING.

[kimbutgar]

15. +1

[dchill]

7. That's been my take, as well. For years now.

[MLAA]

8. Me too

[The Magistrate]

9. I Tend To Agree, Sir

There are no excuses anymore.

In 2016, someone could say, without being a complete fool 'give him a chance' or 'how bad could it be?'

Not anymore.

Now everybody knows and people who still support him must like what he's done, and want things to get worse.

[Proud liberal 80]

10. They were deplorable in 2016

And they are deplorable now!

[FiveGoodMen]

40. Much too nice a word.

They are rejects from hell. (and the Third Reich)

[robbob]

11. There are people who put Fox News on 24 hours a day

They listen to Rush, the listen to other RW radio, and they think they are informed about the world. There’s a reason so much money is spent on propaganda and brainwashing, and that’s because it works.

[DENVERPOPS]

33. Psychiatrists across the nation are beginning to agree.......

and recognize that people watching Fox and listening to RW talk radio have undergone a covert brainwashing by the Republican Party.

[backscatter712]

12. Yep. That's been the case for years now. ALL Trump supporters are human garbage.

Today, there's no excuse. There was no excuse in 2016, when so many checked the box for him after he mocked a disabled man, bashed a Gold Star family, incited violence against Latinxs and Muslims at his Nuremberg rallies, and bragged about you know what.

And now he's directly responsible for tens of thousands of deaths because he axed the fed's pandemic response system, and chose to sit on his ass instead of doing anything as the pandemic started to explode.

Anyone who still supports Trump today is truly a despicable piece of shit.

[dalton99a]

13. They are either malicious or willfully ignorant, which no education can cure

Fuck 'em

[DENVERPOPS]

34. couldn't agree more with you

I have actively dis-owned any and all Republicans in my life...........I have no use for any of them. Many were life time friends and aquaintences. I cannot any longer allow them in my life, when their motives are purely to destroy me and the other good people of the nation.......

FUCK EVERY LAST SINGLE ONE OF THEM, AND THE ASSHOLE THEY RODE IN ON.........

THEY ARE ALL DEAD TO ME............

[AlexSFCA]

14. they were never nice. trump was a litmus test on decency

[dalton99a]

16. +1. Anyone who saw Trump mock the disabled reporter and still voted for him is just as

vile and sadistic as he is

[patphil]

17. Both my brother-in-laws and their wives are Trumpers.

It's weird, because their father was a liberal who graduated from Cooper Union in NYC.

My wife got the family genes for empathy and compassion...apparently all of them.

[TeamPooka]

18. If a man joined the Nazi Party in 1932 it was cause he was hungry and unemployed

but if one joined in 1937 or later he knew what the Nazi's really stood for and joined for let's say the wrong reasons and was judged worse than the first guy when the US did de-Nazification programs in Post war Germany.

Today's Trump supporters are the latter guy.

[dalton99a]

21. +1. Latter-day deplorables are like Hitler Youth true believers fighting for the crazy asshole in

the Führerbunker

[Jake Stern]

32. Joining the GOP is voluntary. NSDAP membership was compelled in a number of situations

Nobody is forced to join the Republican Party to get a decent job or to avoid having their son sent off to the Eastern Front or to keep your business from being smashed up or seized.

The Republican Party isn't making party membership a requirement to be licensed as an Architect or Physician.

The Republican Party isn't forcing parents to sign their children up for the Trump Youth.

The Republican Party isn't forcing athletes to join in order to participate in professional sports.

[atreides1]

56. You're right

But, with the course the Republicans have taken under Trump, which is to keep power in their hands, it just hasn't happened, yet!!!

[Pepsidog]

19. I am with you. I am a trial attorney and about 3 months ago while in court I saw a man

in his eighties walk by me with a maga hat on and I was instantly enraged. I will no longer associate with magats. Just horrible people.

[redstatebluegirl]

28. I was on grand jury duty last year.

One of my fellow jurors showed up in a MAGA hat wanted to wear it in the courtroom and was told no. He griped for days about his rights. Of course the rights of the member of the jury who is Hispanic dud not mean anything to him.

[Thekaspervote]

20. Agree completely! My daughter's out laws are total RWNJ lunatics

Thank god my son in law knows it and doesn’t buy any of it. Limited relationship with them. I refused years ago to visit when they are there.

[Gobbierella]

47. If my family knew

That I don't support Trump they'd disown me.

[orleans]

48. maybe they'll rethink that bullshit if

someone in your family gets sick from covid

i say this because i have seen a pattern with republicans (for years and years and years)--if something negatively effects them personally they might have a change of heart. otherwise, they behave in a manner that is lacking in empathy and compassion for others.

[yaesu]

22. I agree, that is why I will never have anything to do with them, family or otherwise. nt

[Lock him up.]

23. Many MAGA caps are "scared" of SHOSSIALIZM without realizing that...

... without the Socialist $1,200 from the goberment they'd be even more effed up than they are now... but they'll still vote for the Orangevirus cuz they LUVVVV him.

[Paladin]

24. Well said. (nt)

[Harker]

25. On my way to work (amazing that I have a job)

I drive past a 4'x8' handpainted "TRUMP 2020" sign, a "Trump / Pence" banner on a fence, and a house with numerous yard and window signs.

I flip them all off. Daily.

It's petty and ineffective, but it makes me feel a little bit better.

[Ferrets are Cool]

26. They are "nice" to those they deem their friends...

as soon as they (at least in my case) find out that you are a Democrat, the attitude changes.

No, they are not nice, IF it is just for show. I know what is in their hearts by the way they vote.

[Azathoth]

52. It's worse than that

More than a few of them know black people and/or latin people they genuinely consider friends.

I personally know someone whose closest family friend is gay, and yet I stood in that person's kitchen not too long ago and listened to them tell me that a Buttigieg presidency would be unthinkable because no one would respect us if they saw our president standing with his husband.

There are profound cognitive dissonance issues at work in these people, much of which is induced by conservative media.

[Ferrets are Cool]

58. Bingo

[DEbluedude]

27. There is only one reasonable explanation. Hate.

He hates the same people that they do.

[Poiuyt]

29. Unfortunately, I agree

I wish I didn't.

[Girard442]

30. I used to puzzle over how seemingly normal people...

...could see Trump so totally different than I do. They don’t. We both see the same Trump. They just like him.

[dawg]

31. Some of them know that trump is a terrible man, but they have been brainwashed ...

into believing that we (liberals) are even greater monsters.

These people literally believe that we want to outlaw churches, throw Christians in jail, declare open borders, have 9th-month abortions just for the hell of it, teach atheism in the schools, and ... somehow ... also adopt Sharia law, encourage all sorts of sexual immorality, take parental authority away from parents and give it to the state, surrender U.S. sovereignty to a "one-world" government, etc. etc..

When they believe shit like that, there's just no reasoning with them.

And you're right, *they* are the problem - not trump.

[ibegurpard]

35. Agreed

And fuck anyone who says "how can you let politics destroy relationships?" That is a grossly privileged statement that refuses to acknowledge that politics is the vehicle for creating a society that mirrors our morality and values. If you support Republicans then your values are greed, selfishness, cruelty, xenophobia, and willful ignorance. And you are putting such people in decision-making positions that actually do harm to others. That is no mere difference in opinion and shame on anyone who minimizes it as such.

[hermetic]

36. The people who live across the alley from me

hung up a freaking Trump flag in their front yard two days ago! Way to draw a line in the sand, folks. I will never give them the courtesy of a smile or friendly wave again.

[flying_wahini]

41. I think I would hang a sign that says

Hope all Trump supporters get sick.

I know, too much. I have a neighbor that just put up 3 (yes three!!!!) 5ft x 8ft signs
That say Trump 2020 up in a vacant lot next door to his home.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

45. Ugh. Repulsive. These people embrace Ugliness.

Look how ugly he made the environment around his house, so it assaults everyone who goes by. That’s Ugly.

[lpbk2713]

38. These are the kind of people who would berate a distinguished Naval officer in front of his crew.

And later tuck his tail between his legs and say "hey, I didn't mean it".

[Mosby]

39. They are being consumed by hatred of liberals.

Decades of propaganda, lies and a pervasive libertarian worldview has turned the Republican party into nothing more than a reactionary populist party. They care only about themselves and their families. If a liberal supports something, they will be against it, regardless of the issue.

They are bad people.

[Doreen]

42. For those who voted for him and still support him

I hold responsible also for this virus getting out of hand. They are responsible for the deaths of many people. They know exactly what they are doing supporting him. This might take a few of them out but if they can get some Libs, Democrats, homosexuals, non far right Christians, and colored people out it is worth it to them.

[Towlie]

43. I know a married couple consisting of a Republican and a Democrat.

The problem is that in order to keep peace they avoid watching the news, which is probably good for the Republican who would want to watch Fox News, but bad for the Democrat who would want to watch real news.

[FiveGoodMen]

44. Could never do that in a million years.

Like marrying into the Satan family.

[Karadeniz]

46. Completely agree!

[C Moon]

49. My next door neighbor is a kind 85 year old man, who is being hood-winked by Fox News and his church

He still works at 85 years old, and his 50 year-old daughter takes advantage of his kindness. She lost her home, and moved in with her mother and father, with her boyfriend (neither her or her boyfriend work—their 85 year old father pays the bills).

The daughter and her boyfriend are rude, hate rules, and act like 10-year-olds.

Right now, his daughter's boyfriend parked his truck in a handicap spot—no placard, and took his license plates off (front and back) so he couldn't be reported.

They are all Trump supporters. So yeah, I agree: Trump supporters are not nice people.

And BTW: none of them living there respect for the rules put forth regarding the virus. I wouldn't be surprised if they kill her parents with COVID-19.

[Azathoth]

50. Decades of radical Fox-style propaganda have hardened them

Many were assholes to begin with, but a lot were systematically turned by the conservative entertainment complex into the mean creatures they are today.

I've seen it happen. A steady diet of Fox/talk radio shit does more long-term damage to a person than a three pack-a-day smoking habit.

[thegoose]

51. Yep, you are an obviously dysfunctional asshole.

What the fuck is wrong with your mind?

[davekriss]

53. I never thought they were "nice people"

[agingdem]

54. you no longer believe there are any exceptions??

what the hell took you so long?

[BlueMTexpat]

57. I can only wholeheartedly

agree.

But you are too nice to say that they are "not nice." They are f*cking evil and dangerous to all that is good.