Total Truth From David Brooks:in 2020.
Donald Trump seems to get indicted on a weekly basis. Yet he is utterly dominating his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is tied with Joe Biden in the general election surveys. Trump?s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time
What?s going on here? Why is this guy still politically viable, after all he?s done?
We anti-Trumpers often tell a story to explain that. It was encapsulated in a quote the University of North Carolina political scientist Marc Hetherington gave to my colleague Thomas B. Edsall recently: ?Republicans see a world changing around themuncomfortably fast, and they want it to slow down, maybe even take a step backward. But if you are a person of color, a woman who values gender equality or an L.G.B.T. person, would you want to go back to 1963? I doubt it.?
In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress and enlightenment. The Trumpers are reactionary bigots and authoritarians. Many Republicans support Trump no matter what, according to this story, because at the end of the day he?s still the bigot in chief, the embodiment of their resentments, and that?s what matters to them most.
Total Truth From David Brooks:
Donald Trump seems to get indicted on a weekly basis. Yet he is utterly dominating his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is tied with Joe
Biden in the general election surveys. Trump’s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020.
What’s going on here? Why is this guy still politically viable, after
all he’s done?
We anti-Trumpers often tell a story to explain that. It was encapsulated
in a quote the University of North Carolina political scientist Marc Hetherington gave to my colleague Thomas B. Edsall recently:
“Republicans see a world changing around them uncomfortably fast, and
they want it to slow down, maybe even take a step backward. But if you
are a person of color, a woman who values gender equality or an L.G.B.T. person, would you want to go back to 1963? I doubt it.”
In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress
and enlightenment. The Trumpers are reactionary bigots and
authoritarians. Many Republicans support Trump no matter what, according
to this story, because at the end of the day he’s still the bigot in
chief, the embodiment of their resentments, and that’s what matters to
them most.
On Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:04:07 -0700, Ja-Son-Wan-Kenobi Has the High Ground wrote:
Total Truth From David Brooks:
Donald Trump seems to get indicted on a weekly basis. Yet he is utterly dominating his Republican rivals in the polls, and he is tied with Joe Biden in the general election surveys. Trump?s poll numbers are stronger against Biden now than at any time in 2020.
What?s going on here? Why is this guy still politically viable, after
all he?s done?
We anti-Trumpers often tell a story to explain that. It was encapsulated
in a quote the University of North Carolina political scientist Marc Hetherington gave to my colleague Thomas B. Edsall recently:
?Republicans see a world changing around them uncomfortably fast, and
they want it to slow down, maybe even take a step backward. But if you
are a person of color, a woman who values gender equality or an L.G.B.T. person, would you want to go back to 1963? I doubt it.?
In this story we anti-Trumpers are the good guys, the forces of progress and enlightenment. The Trumpers are reactionary bigots and
authoritarians. Many Republicans support Trump no matter what, according
to this story, because at the end of the day he?s still the bigot in
chief, the embodiment of their resentments, and that?s what matters to
them most.
None left in RSPW. Skeeter won't defend him with anything but tu quoques
and P-Dub has denied him thrice.
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