He has some of the highest approval ratings among Republicans of any recent president
Lol no he doesn’t. He’s below 40% which is abysmal.
Nearly half the country supporting this guy is not an "aberration."
Yes it was, because once the veil was lifted on the disinformation campaign, the subsequent election led to a historical shift in power from one side to the other. And the next election will prove even further how much of an aberration he was.
Russia didn't change Republican's opinions about things during the election, it Amplified Republican's opinions
You’re naive if you think that. The ideas of “draining the swamp” and “locking her up” were specifically crafted to create a certain psychological narrative. The vast majority of people who voted for Trump were lied to and manipulated. You see stories all over Reddit about how people’s parents changed during this election - where they went from tolerant people with decent morals to slavering animals with a hair trigger.
Everyone needs to wake up and realize that what Russia did was really fucking effective. Yes, racism is a massive problem in our country. But it, alone, was not sufficient to put Trump in the White House.
Those voters were happy to hear what Russia wanted them to hear
Because Russia specifically crafted false narratives to make those stories attractive. I’m serious. We cannot underestimate how effective this campaign was. There’s a reason we went from a black president who was, by all objective metrics, a fair minded and pragmatic leader who won by massive margins, to this blithering dolt. And it’s not because Americans all of a sudden changed their mind on their own volition.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but that doesn’t account for the number of people who switched away from the Republican Party as a result of all of this. It’s not surprising that the only ones left are the sycophants and the brainwashed.
Just before the 2016 Presidential Election, 26% of people in the US identified as Republicans. As of December, after "people [switching] away from the Republican Party as a result of all this," that number has fallen to... 26%. (Democrat membership went from 31% to 32%.)
There's been no evidence that there's been any meaningful change in party identification over the past two years. Nothing's changed. The same people are Republicans and Democrats that have been for a decade, the Republicans make up a solid quarter of the country, and they absolutely love Trump.
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Lol no he doesn’t. He’s below 40% which is abysmal.
Yes it was, because once the veil was lifted on the disinformation campaign, the subsequent election led to a historical shift in power from one side to the other. And the next election will prove even further how much of an aberration he was.
You’re naive if you think that. The ideas of “draining the swamp” and “locking her up” were specifically crafted to create a certain psychological narrative. The vast majority of people who voted for Trump were lied to and manipulated. You see stories all over Reddit about how people’s parents changed during this election - where they went from tolerant people with decent morals to slavering animals with a hair trigger.
Everyone needs to wake up and realize that what Russia did was really fucking effective. Yes, racism is a massive problem in our country. But it, alone, was not sufficient to put Trump in the White House.
Because Russia specifically crafted false narratives to make those stories attractive. I’m serious. We cannot underestimate how effective this campaign was. There’s a reason we went from a black president who was, by all objective metrics, a fair minded and pragmatic leader who won by massive margins, to this blithering dolt. And it’s not because Americans all of a sudden changed their mind on their own volition.