Back in 2016, shortly after Trump was elected, a woman named Tess Rafferty posted a kind of incendiary video on YouTube decrying the way that right-wingers basically just hate us, and calling them out for their support of Donald Trump. Some of what she said was:
| We don’t live in polite America anymore We live in grab them by the pussy America now So thank you for that Being polite was exhausting |
I, also, had the very distinct impression at the time, that the people voting for this guys were voting for the “FU President.” Voting for this guy was a giant FU to the rest of us.
And, I warned at the time, that Trump was going to galvanize the left as well.
All of that has proven to be true.
By now, no one can argue anymore that they’re voting for Trump because he’s “a businessman” or that they’re voting for him because they think “how bad can he be?” No one is voting for Trump because of his “positions” on the issues, because Trump has no positions on the issues. No one can argue that they’re voting for him because Trump “tells the truth” because Trump has proven to be the greatest prevaricator, possibly on the planet. No one can argue that they’re voting for Trump because he’s “not a politician” when it’s clear that he’s as much of a politician as there has ever been. He’s just not a professional.
No, by now it’s clear why people vote for Trump:
- It’s because they hate those of us who they believe are not part of “Real” America;
- It’s because he speaks their many grievances out loud;
- It’s because they think that he’s the greatest culture warrior that exists;
- It’s because they hate the idea of being “woke” and having to think about things like racism or sexism or the queer or transgendered;
- It’s because Fox News and right wing talk radio have convinced them that everything is somebody else’s fault.
Now, just recently Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, has been running around telling people that Democrats need to be more respectful of MAGA voters. As a practical matter, he’s probably right.
But for most of us, it’s too late for that.
- These people have deified a man who represents almost every Christian sin;
- These people have deified a man who has 91 federal indictments;
- These people have deified a man who who triggered an insurrection live on television;
- These people have defied a man who was convicted of sexual assault and defamation, and is now on trial for defaming the same woman again;
- These people have deified a man whose company has been guilty of enormous business fraud, and who will soon be unable to do business in the state of New York;
- These people have deified a man who has never stopped lying about the fact that he lost the 2020 election;
- These people have deified a man about whom most of the people who worked for him have labeled as incompetent, compulsive, narcissistic and an idiot;
- These people have deified a man who has engaged in literally every single one of the seven deadly sins;
- These people have defied a man who has cozied up to just about every dictator on the planet, especially Vladimir Putin, and who has openly proclaimed that he wants to be a dictator on “day one”;
- These people have deified a man whose only concern is what is good for him and who doesn’t give a shit about his own supporters.
While I might have had some sympathy for some of the grievances of Trump supporters in days gone bye, the fact that they’ve all hitched their wagons to this ugly, hateful, spiteful, unremorseful, morally bankrupt übernarcissistic psychopath, and have deified him regardless of what latest outrage he engages in, means that they’ve also lost any sympathy from me, and my colleagues, and my friends, and the international community, and just about any thinking human being on the planet.
The citizens of “Real America” have now succeeded in doing what they have apparently wanted to do all along, and that is not merely to reprimand us, but to drive a permanent wedge between us and them.
By now it’s known that larger percentages of Americans despise the other side than ever before.
I have to admit that I’m one of them now. For those Americans who still support Donald Trump after everything he has shown about his true character, I have nothing but contempt. Just as I do for people who deny the Holocaust. There comes a point beyond which I can no longer comprehend what someone else is thinking, and when it comes to support for Trump, I’ve reached that point.
Well, I reached it a while ago, but the Maginot Line has gotten deeper as every month passes along, and this guy is still a credible candidate for President.