'We're for Trump': Pence rally for Gianforte draws supporters, protesters to MetraPark
Source: Billings Gazette
Vice President Mike Pence, the latest high-profile out-of-state figure to campaign on behalf of Greg Gianforte, spoke Friday at MetraPark in Billings.
But it was President Donald J. Trump who attendees and protesters mentioned when explaining why they were in the sun on a hot May afternoon.
Holly Mangum, her 9-year-old son Casey, Kayla LaFountain, and LaFountain's 1-year-old daughter Ayva arrived after the doors had already opened for the rally at the Montana Pavilion.
"We're for Trump," Mangum said. "We're fully Trump supporters, and I feel like the guy they're rallying for today fully supports Trump and all his policies and views. I did a lot of research on (Hillary) Clinton, and she's an evil person."
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Remember in some parts of the country listening to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, Trump is the greatest President eva.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)are allowed to breed. Spread ignorance to another generation.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Ligyron
(7,627 posts)"Hillary Clinton, now not a lot of people know this but, Hillary killed a guy named Vince Foster!"
Me: "You're kidding?"
With some of them, it's hopeless...
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)"a lot of research" means to someone like that? Watching FOX, reading Not-so-Breitbart, listening to Rusty Limbaugh? Research is only as good as the materials you use to research WITH! Freaking morons.
CrispyQ
(36,457 posts)And yesterday he posted something like, "Capitalism will get you out of the poverty that socialism put you in." Guess what? He's 60 & looking forward to SS/Medicare in 7 years. He listens to Rush/Fox.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)jesus...how do you talk to these people....
jalan48
(13,859 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)there is a area on the Southwest Side that is all Whities and belong to Religious Cult that Nationally Supports all Republicans no matter what. Lot's of Vessel's.
BarbD
(1,192 posts)We must not underestimate the lifelong Republican getting their news from Fox and believing that Trump is being victimized by the elitist Democrats.
I have two California cousins ( we both grew up in Wisconsin, I'm now in Connecticut). The only way they will even consider there is something to the Russian connection is for a Republican Senator to have a conscience and take a stand.
TomCADem
(17,387 posts)...the Rockefeller Republicans were still a fairly influential block in the Republican party.
JackRiddler
(24,979 posts)they were less organized but the majority of the white people was in the midst of an enormous two-decades reaction against desegregation and civil rights and black people moving into their neighborhoods. They had just given Nixon an incredible majority (49 states) on the basis of that and a further national reactionary freakout against everything the Sixties were seen to have stood for. The tyranny in the name of anti-communism was no longer as passionate, but the religious right was just getting started (having freaked out since the school prayer decision and then abortion). Plenty of people had dumb ideas exactly like Limbaugh's and FOX's. And that stuff was on the radio. The difference was that it was more grassroots, if anything. Now it is more aggressively marketed and organized, corporate.
And no, contrary to present day mythology, Nixon was never "liberal," merely adaptable to realities like the simultaneous popular movements (and also, apparently, open to breathing and drinking water, thus EPA etc.). He came in on a conspiracy to continue the biggest mass murder in international post-WWII history and did exactly that, he escalated it, killed literal millions of innocent people for nothing more than looking strong.
There was more room for liberal Republicanism (today: zero) but remember, 1964 already Goldwater. The Republican majority already thought New York and Jews and liberals and eggheads hated and exploited Real America.
In 1973 it would have been hard to imagine that things would get so much worse as the ruling class soon came together around the neoliberal consensus of renewed class war and allied with the conservative reaction to produce Reagan. Beware all this junk punditry right now telling you what great guys these people were, that's the establishment right wing and the corporate media exploiting Trumpism to push the country further right by making even the war criminal Bush look cool.
no.
Trumpism is a logical culmination along these lines, though Trump himself is not the leader-personality one would have expected. That came together also thanks to "post-reality" effects of modern media, 30 years of him in the celebrity culture. He is unlikely to be the last leader of this beastly reaction, however. Pence as one more in the usual christofanatic right-wing mold will show you how much worse it can get, if the majorities don't switch in 2018 and 2020.
In fact, the country was split much like today, except today the majority today is actually left of center and the right has gone even more insane and ready for an open war as a result.