About a white rural voter...

[Warpy]

32. Democrats wasted a hell of a lot of years

being stuck in the mindset that they could somehow work with Evangelical Republicans. They sorely disappointed a lot of people for a very long time as Republicans just walked right over them. I spent the entirety of the 90s and 00s wanting to slap the snot out of most of them, myself, but I knew the alternative was voting for fascism. Whether they called themselves DLC, Third Way, Blue Dog or (shudder) fiscal conservatives, they were all enemies of working people as they worked with the GOP to keep fattening the rich and building monopolies while depressing wages.

So yeah, I can see why compassionate, talented, and otherwise rational people fell for a populist demagogue, it happens. We were lucky this time, because this one is clumsy, arrogant, and not nearly as smart as he claims. If they were going to follow an asshole to the edge of the cliff, we were fortunate they chose such an incompetent one.

So stay sane, stay sober, and stay tolerant as one by one they start to fall silent about the virtues of TFG and his GQP.