2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump Is Not Responsible For Turning His Supporters Into Deplorables....
he didn't create them in the sense that they were just common folk and he created them out of thin air or out of the blue because of his platform and positions.
No - what he did was unleash their pent up anger at the system that forced them to be politically correct and not give them an opportunity to say what they feel. He gives them a release. He gives them the courage to vent their racism, misogyny, islamophobia, xenophobia, etc and allowed them to express themselves under the cover of Trump himself - who isn't politically correct. They've harbored these feelings but weren't - until Trump arrived on the scene - able to express their feelings.
Now they feel embolden. They feel freed of their guilt of hiding their feelings and that it is suddenly alright to say those things that they kept pent up in their heads.
That is why I believe that they idolize Trump and have an undying loyalty to him. He expressed what they've felt and were unable to say. He made it ok to think and say what he says.
That is the scary thing about his followers. Now that they have become unleashed - where will it stop? How far will Trump and his followers take it?
annabanana
(52,791 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)It began with Nixon's Southern Strategy and accelerated with the Tea Party movement until it is now complete.
Conservatism is dead, though they like to use that word.
They are White Ultra-Nationalists. I don't know where that party goes from here. I will not be surprised if a new party appears after the election, and Republican joins the Whig Party as an historical term.
RKP5637
(67,102 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,524 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)Oh, puke.
Fluke a Snooker
(404 posts)Think of all the congress races we will win simply by tying all GOP candidates with him.
NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)This is the fault of the GOP for having ZERO balls. They are pathetic.
Hekate
(90,633 posts)...and clean up the stench.
I mean it.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)And his 30% is WAAAAAY below average. Unfortunately that's just how the bell shaped curve works.
What changed is that about 30 years we started celebrating stupidity.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)always have been here, just didn't have a national leader expressing what their hate is about.