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A Sunday night thread about a curious thing.
Four years ago, MAGA Nation said "Just you wait! You& #39;ll get yours! When Trump is in, he& #39;ll change it all!"
Now we& #39;re told: "Landslide! This time! You& #39;ll pay!"
I still don& #39;t really know what they thought would happen, then or now. /1
Four years ago, MAGA Nation said "Just you wait! You& #39;ll get yours! When Trump is in, he& #39;ll change it all!"
Now we& #39;re told: "Landslide! This time! You& #39;ll pay!"
I still don& #39;t really know what they thought would happen, then or now. /1
I remember in 2016 being told how people like me - the elites, or something - were going to finally pay for their crimes. Instead, Trump passed giant tax cuts and made people like me richer while he impoverished farmers with a trade war no one really understands. /2
Abortion is still legal, gays are still gay-marrying. Hollywood is still Hollywood. He& #39;s made household names of people like Rick Wilson. The media are doing fine. (If anything, Trump& #39;s been a boon to the New York Times and other newspapers.) You& #39;d think this would matter. /3
Meanwhile, poor white people are still poor and white, and looked down upon by the elites more than they ever were; their towns are still dying. Their cultish attempt at mass political suicide gave Dems a wave win. A majority does not approve of Trump, and never will. /4
I mean, I get why rich GOPers love Trump& #39;s unregulated capitalism. But working/middle class whites didn& #39;t get much other than just *feeling good about other people being mad*. They got some crumbs while Trump pointed at the gains of a stock market they& #39;re not in (but I am). /5
Overseas, we& #39;re in deep kimchee. We nearly had a war with Iran and two strikes on Syria. We& #39;re as "forever warring" as before. The armed forces are cash-rich, but a political wreck, as Trump undermines basic principles of U.S. civil-military relations at will. /6
I guess I get it: It& #39;s been four years of gorging on "we won, and you hate it," but I have to be honest: I& #39;ve done okay. The market stayed afloat on a sugar buzz whose bill will come due after I retire, when I& #39;m collecting on that 401K Trump pumped up. What did Trumpers get? /7
And now, the thing all the Never Trump guys warned about - a major crisis - has happened. And I can& #39;t imagine there& #39;s anyone who thinks Clinton - or Biden - would have handled this worse than Jared F& #39;n Kushner. But they& #39;re all in for 2020, so that they can finally achieve...? /8
For all of my bloviation and teasing and trolling of the Trump people, I still can& #39;t really bring myself to believe that people are willing to keep hurting themselves just because they think it& #39;s detrimental to *me* in some way, with years of evidence that it isn& #39;t. /9
