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I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters - Above the Law (abovethelaw.com)

submitted 3 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Early last week, I was at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library for its first weekend. At the library itself, despite President Donald Trump inserting himself incongruously into the opening ceremonies, I did not see a single person sporting a Trump-branded clothing item.

The town of Medora, North Dakota, itself was, however, a different story. It wasn’t overwhelming. But for someone who lives in an urban center of a blue state, where even in the ruby red rural areas most people have become sufficiently shamed to shut up about their MAGA tendencies, a single errant MAGA cap is a rarity.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I especially disagree with the assertion that Trump supporters are only “idiots.”

I’ve seen extremely intelligent, post-college-educated people support him, full throated. Ones who’ve never even touched Facebook, nor Twitter.

January 6, all the controversies, they’re just alarmist noise because that’s their whole information environment. They’ve turned into climate change skeptics for similar reasons, despite being atheists/agnostics with a strong belief in science.

Hence, I think the joke is on the writer of this piece, sadly.

Information bubbles work.

This isn’t going to end. Were cooked.

Our future is similar to VR addicts in cyberpunk fiction. History and reality do not matter. It won’t be for Trump, but enough of the population will get drip fed praise for regimes that they will stay in power :(