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What sort of 'messaging' on the part of ANY Democratic nominee would have overcome this sort of selective deaf/blindness? What health care reform plan could have convinced this kind of voter that they would do worse under Trump??
They will be forgiving if, say, he doesnt literally get Mexico to pay for a border wall, or if he doesnt literally ban all Muslims from entering the United States.
But in other areas, Trumps supporters perhaps should have taken him literally because they now may have a serious problem.
Vox senior editor Sarah Kliff wrote a poignant account last week of her visit to Whitley County, Ky., where the uninsured rate declined 60 percent under Obamacare but 82 percent of voters supported Trump. There, Kliff, a former Post colleague, found Trump voters who were downright frightened that the president-elect would do exactly literally what he and Republicans promised: repeal Obamacare.
Among those she found was Trump voter Debbie Mills, a store owner whose husband awaits a lifesaving liver transplant; they got insurance through Obamacare, and Mills is hoping the law wont be repealed.
I dont know what well do if it does go away, Mills said. I guess I thought that, you know, [Trump] would not do this. That they would not do this, would not take the insurance away. Knowing that its affecting so many peoples lives. I mean, what are you to do then if you cannot . . . purchase, cannot pay for the insurance?
Mills, who supported Trump for other reasons, figured Obamacare repeal was just talk. I guess we really didnt think about that, that he was going to cancel that or change that or take it away, she said. I guess I always just thought that it would be there. I was thinking that once it was made into a law that it could not be changed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-voters-didnt-take-him-literally-on-obamacare-oops/2016/12/20/46ef3cae-c6f3-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?postshare=4301482325173742&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.65cd8e0c6a19
Vinca
(50,269 posts)Were you trying to murder you husband??????
DFW
(54,370 posts)I don't know the husband voted, but if he voted for Trump, too, and dies from the effects of having done so, who will Debbie Mills blame? Trump and McConnell, like she should? No, she'll find a way to blame Obama, and keep voting Republican.
tanyev
(42,552 posts)I fear you are going to learn that in a very painful way.
unblock
(52,208 posts)and that he was always just exaggerating to make the emotional appeal bigger, not meaning it literally.
so on immigration, he the reality will be he'll do something to restrict quotas from certain countries.
on the wall, he'll just add numbers to the border patrol.
on obamacare, who knows, but they can't piss off 11 million of their own constituents. it wouldn't surprise me if they repealed it and replaced it with a virtually identical plan and called it trumpcare and claimed victory and the media and the right-wing would be thrilled.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Enuff said.
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)"I like Trump because he says what he means?"
What part of the Republiklans trying to repeal it 40 times and trump promising to repeal it 1st thing in office, did they not understand?
I have a FB friend, that I will not delete. He cried that Obamacare costs him too much. I don't believe he is actually paying what he says he is. But when it is repealed and he has to buy on the open market, I plan on trolling him bigly. Another friend on SSDI who voted trumplethinskin, I am not even giving her the heads up about that being on the chopping block. I tried telling her during the elections that this is exactly what would happen, Oh, no republicans won't do that and went on about missing emails.
There is absolutely nothing you can say to them to get them to accept facts. Nothing. I will let them know that their vote is a direct result of their vote. They might want to listen to facts next time.
Coventina
(27,115 posts)They have the blood of their fellow citizens on their hands.
HAB911
(8,891 posts)Freddie
(9,265 posts)The person seems so perfect on paper that you project all these wonderful things about him/her.
Then you get to know the person better.
Emilybemily
(204 posts)Here's hoping evolution will kick in.
Crunchy Frog
(26,579 posts)The one thing I get out of all this.