Most of rural white America will stick with Trump till the last dog dies

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

I’m a 67-year-old rural white guy from a small town in deepest western Kentucky.

I didn’t vote for Donald Trump. But a lot of Americans in my demographic did.

I’d bet the family’s eight-year-old Chevy Impala that most of them will stick with the president till the last dog dies.
 
I know the polls say Trump’s in trouble. (The polls also said my choice for president would win.)

The administration is in “meltdown” and in a “perpetual state of chaos” claims Chris Hayes, one of my favorite stars in the MSNBC crown.

“If Rural Voters Were Angry Before, Wait Until The GOP Repeals Obamacare,” predicts the headline on a Huffington Post story by Michael McAuliffe and Laura Barron-Lopez.

I’m also a fan of HP. But I wouldn’t wager a cup of coffee that the Trump yeomanry will revolt if the GOP guts the Affordable Care Act.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/10/1642315/-Most-of-rural-white-America-will-stick-with-Trump-till-the-last-dog-dies?detail=email&link_id=5&can_id=861a9125edc6ec9480b5e7910a47b2d9&source=email-steve-bannon-under-active-criminal-investigation-for-get-this-residency-fraud-2&email_referrer=steve-bannon-under-active-criminal-investigation-for-get-this-residency-fraud-2___181261&email_subject=house-gop-pushes-bill-letting-companies-force-workers-to-undergo-genetic-testing

[Squinch]

1. Which leaves 75% of the American electorate, the ones who didn't vote for Trump, to work with.

[leftstreet]

5. +1

[wcast]

21. +1000

[dalton99a]

2. "I don't know one Christian on Hillary Clinton's team," said the Rev. Franklin Graham

Yeah, hell freezes over before they vote Democratic.

[Alice11111]

26. He didn't meet me, but he would say I'm not real

anyway, because I've gone in the closet not to be associated with his kind. Neon sign wearing Hypocrite.

[Beartracks]

28. Well, for starters: Hillary.

Oh, that's right: they don't mean Christian; they mean Christian(tm).

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[raging moderate]

32. Yes, and Tim Kaine.

But, again, only a Christian; not a Christian(tm).

[ladym55]

31. He wouldn't

Graham hangs with bigoted white evangelicals just like him. He wouldn't know a real Christian if he saw one. He would give Christ the boot for being brown, poor, and hanging out with poor people.

[LOL Lib]

3. Totally agree.

Trump has something going for him that is the perfect storm. If he is failing he can blame "the swamp" and his supporters will uphold him. If the swamp fails the people, he will claim he wasn't complicit because he isn't "one of them." His supporters will blame "the swamp creatures." If all else fails, he can blame the Deep State and or Obama, Hillary, Bill, Carter...and his supporters will buy it.

Bottom line his supporters are cult followers that cannot be fixed. They drank the crazy kool-aid instead of the poison kool-aid.

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. Hell, some of their heroes on Fox News blamed banking rules put in place under Jimmy Carter

for the 2007-2008 George W. Bush economic disaster. The Trumpers would even believe it if they blamed policies put in place by Harry Truman. Makes no difference what lie they tell, these brainwashed fools will lap it up.

[LOL Lib]

10. Spineless, gutless, cowards always have a scapegoat lined up.

I wonder if most repuke voters do basically the same thing in their personal lives?

[Alice11111]

27. Yes!

[Alice11111]

29. It didn't poisin them, but it did our country.

[ProudLib72]

4. Bumper sticker from my part of the world

My wife, yes.
My dog, maybe.
My gun, never.

[Squinch]

6. Women below animals below guns. That's why I live in NY.

[oasis]

12. How many domestic abuse calls were turned in by this guy's neighbors?

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I wonder about Neanderthal assholes such as him.

[ProudLib72]

17. Yup

Real bumper sticker that can be found in Grand Junction, Colorado (probably all of the western slope, but I know it from GJ).

[Dawson Leery]

24. No more fucking Jim Webb's.

He is an apologist for that kind of bullshit.
Of course, he is horrifically sexist. Dead set against Elizabeth Warren in 2020.

[Charles Bukowski]

7. 63 million idiots voted for Trump.

If 3% have a change of heart, the Democratic nominee will cruise into the White House.

[Ace Rothstein]

16. The problem is the recent Suffolk Poll.

The Democratic Party is still polling below both Trump and the Republican Party.

[gwheezie]

8. Afraid I have to agree with you

But the election of Trump has brought people who never voted to their senses out here in the swamp where I live. The actual Trump voters who still support him after they see what he's done since taking office are a lost cause.

[world wide wally]

11. For the tenth time, folks;

FUCK the Trump voters and getting them to change. Your time is better spent teaching your goldfish to speak Italian.
We just need to get our voters, and new voters out on Election Day!
If we do that, we win.
That simple

[dalton99a]

15. Amen to that.

[liquid diamond]

20. Agreed.

All this talk about educating those asshats is pure foolishness. They are influenced by their emotions and bigotry. Facts be damned.

[Alice11111]

34. Given the ones I know, they ain't changin.

and they don't want nobody givin them no facts either. They love DTs stupid nonsense because it pisses off the Dems. It's like, oh, look what he said or did now. That will really get them. TeHeHe

Even many who didn’t vote for him are singing his praises now, like Wall Street. I hear it all over.

I know some stupid PhDs who voted for him because they hate Hillary, great excuse, and the lady's Obamacare covered maternity. She no longer needed it. Duh? So did her non Obamacare insurance. There are so many lies about Obamacare, and there are so many misconceptions.
Like ALL programs, there were a few bugs to resolve. It was comparatively great to what we had before. Great, in spite of the Repubs obstructing it and undermining it in full force. That's all they know how to do...destroy.

[doc03]

13. I live in rural eastern Ohio and totally agree, no matter what happens they will

find some scapegoat to blame other than Trump. They believe nothing but what they hear on Fox, right wing radio and
the internet, any other information is fake news.

[Blue_true]

14. I see on discussion boards that Trump supporters are largely staying with him.

I have seen two or three come out and say they somewhat regret voting for him, but even they have not fully abandoned him, even when it appears they will be hurt by his policies. I still see the "those others who are freeloading" argument from Trump supporters. I don't expect most of his votes will see the light, they will blame Democrats and "libruls", anyone but their man.

[Dan]

18. But what happens

When it is admitted that Trump is an agent of Russia. Tell me, your demographic- will it support a traitor?

[wcast]

22. Quite frankly, yes it will.

I'm not from Kentucky, but rural PA. These people will stand on their head in order to avoid facts and logic. They believe they are right, that God is on their side, that no matter what is reported on the "news" is fake. Unless it is on Fox, they won't believe a word anyone says.

[Dan]

25. If that is true

Then the Nation has a much bigger problem than Trump. Trump is a symptom - not the problem.

[Beartracks]

33. He's a problem AND a symptom. n/t

[Freedomofspeech]

37. Same here in SW PA.

I hate living here and I hate them.

[liquid diamond]

19. I said in another thread

that there is nothing Trump can do to piss off his voters. Not a damn thing. Any evidence of malfeasance would be dismissed as "fake news".

[Dawson Leery]

23. I do not see any reason to deal with the opioid matter.

Let natural law work. Those people want personal responsibility, they should take it!

[dalton99a]

36. They're free to die off naturally. Because freedom and all that jazz.

[Dawson Leery]

38. Certainly.

[Tikki]

30. What if he let's cuts to Medicare and Social Security go through after he promised he wouldn't!!!!

It would make a HUGE difference out here in the West with the trump voter's.

Of course, as you know, most out here didn't and won't vote for him anyway.

Tikki

[Hoyt]

35. They'd still blame it on Obama.

[2naSalit]

39. Well...

I guess now, by your stereotyping, that I am now a RWNJ because I live in rural America in a red state.

Geeze, I wasn't aware of that when I voted for HRC and Democrats all the way down the ballot. I hope I can see a dentist before my medicaid goes away.