Another disappointed Trump supporter.

[Hamlette]

A woman I work with is very religious and from Texas, as is her husband. We don't really talk politics but I've thought she had to be liberal to work here. Today she told me her husband voted from Trump and she has never seen him so mad. She said he is one of those people who would hate immigration and probably does not hate the ban but he cannot believe what an idiot Trump is. (I know, she too said, "what did he think he was getting?) She said everyday he goes on a tirade about how stupid Trump is and how much he is hurting this country. I don't think they usually talk politics because she was generally shocked.

I told her to keep on him. My dad was a republican until Reagan said something he hated. Once he saw the light on that one issue with his party, he started to see how awful they are in general. He was the biggest leftie in the family when he died. And considering some in my family are communists, that's saying a lot.

Maybe we're going after the wrong people. Fuck the dems we lost, how bout we try to get the few semi-sane republicans out there. Or both.

[LisaM]

1. Good! This is why I think it's important to keep a big tent.

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Do I agree with conservative Dems on everything? NO! Do I value them as part of our party? YES.

[pnwmom]

16. +1. n/t

[elleng]

2. We should try to 'get' EVERYONE,

and a good organization, led by a smart and capable chair, would do so.

[raccoon]

3. I hope this woman's husband tells all his friends how he feels! nt

[TrekLuver]

4. I welcome anyone.

[eleny]

5. They really got swept up in his horseshit and machismo

So the immigration issue was why he voted for him, then. Hard to imagine that this one issue was it. But if people don't educate themselves about how the influx of people has fallen dramatically I guess he bought into the lie that they were swarming over the border by the thousands.

I wonder if he believes the latest lie about the refugees we agreed to accept that are in Australia. They're spinning those circumstances into a blur.

[Hamlette]

11. I'm not sure that is WHY he voted for Trump

it was his wife's surprise that even though he probably agreed with the ban, he's furious at Trump. I think she said it because the ban is what has galvanized the nation and prompted us to keep protesting.

I wanna see/hear from more of them. Unfortunately I take the web site of supposed Trump voters who are now unhappy with a grain of salt. It could be a group of DUers creating that blog and the rogue White House employees blog too (not that ai believe one of would have started it, but I've been tempted to add fuel to the fire at places like that.)

So, hearing it first hand was satisfying. What is depressing is the polls that show as many as 48% support the ban (I know other polls show less support).

The good news is Trump did himself great damage his first weekend in office lying about crowd size (as if anyone the hell cared). Now more people are skeptical of anything he or Spicer say. I hope he keeps it up.

[eleny]

13. It's probably too early for people to admit out in the open that they screwed up

May never happen. But spouses know. And you heard it straight from there. She must have needed to share that. Life must be fun with that guy.

[Cha]

6. Hope for more and more of these people who wake the fuck up.. for

2018 and 2020.

Thanks for the report, Hamlette

[Rustyeye77]

7. An idea......Turn both of them on to DU.

[Hamlette]

12. then I couldn't talk about them here :)

[gratuitous]

8. Good news

Commiserate with your friend. Suggest to her that President Trump's amateur hour antics were to be expected from someone who has never held elective office and is suddenly plunked down in the big chair. Once her husband starts seeing the rookie mistakes, he won't be able to stop seeing them. First, because his mind is now open to seeing these freshman blunders. Second, because Trump won't stop making them.

[AlexSFCA]

9. great

dissapointed trump voters could our most important allies. I have yet to know one. The ones I know are 'thrilled' beyond expectations.

[Takket]

10. why is he upset with Trump for doing all the crazy shit he said he would do?

[Leith]

14. Little by Little, One by One...

People are going to reach their own conclusion that orange boy is a clusterfuck and a horrible mistake. We see it happening already.

It will take some of them take longer than others, but eventually the idiot usurper will do something that even a staunch supporter can't abide - and one more person turns against him.

[jalan48]

15. Very religious and voted for a self-avowed "pussy grabber"? What kind of religion is this?

[MrModerate]

17. On the subject of Trump's world-historical unfitness . . .

We need to go after ALL the people.

[Jhall5]

18. And he's been in office how long????