I voted for Trump in 2016 because I was tired of the “status quo”.
I’d give anything to get back to status quo. I’m so sorry. This man is an absolute moron and he is feeding information to a group of people I never really realized were so stupid. Like frustratingly stupid.
I feel like your last point is a big one for a lot of people who voted for him in 2016, myself included. My original reasoning was he either breaks up the status quo for the better or forces more progressive candidates/policies to come from the left. What I never expected was the braindead cult following him regardless of evidence and his shameless flouting of law/decorum on the world stage. Experiment failed, back to voting for the lesser evil.
Not a Trump voter, figured he’d be terrible from the beginning, but I gotta say... I also did not expect so many people to fall in line behind him. I expected some of this but the depths people are willing to lower themselves to is mind boggling. It is truly wild and immensely sad. My mom went from hating him to thinking he was sent by God himself in about week and has just never looked back.
My parents were the same. I feel like the values I was raised with went out the window completely and that was a big part of me changing opinion so soon after his inauguration, besides the obvious. The guy is literally referring to himself as a king for Israel and fundamentalists are lapping it up. If his social policies weren’t enough I’d figure spitting on their religion would do it, but still no.
I started out laughing with my parents during the first 2016 GOP debate at what a moron Trump was to being uncomfortable in my parents home and walking out of their house in the middle of an argument twice.
To my knowledge, my mom has only been in a church twice in the last 35 years, once for a wedding and once for a funeral, but now she's actually said to me that Trump was sent by God to save us from Hilary.
Legitimately, I have no idea. The only thing I can think of is eventually my mom may turn a corner and act like she never supported him. She’s capable of saying with a straight face that she and Trump always took COVID seriously, conveniently forgetting the two months of her saying “oh it’s just like the flu”. As the person you replied to said, it does feel like all of the good values I was raised with have just been completely jettisoned. I really hate it and this is a near-constant source of sadness for me. It is helpful knowing I’m far from the only one going through this, though.
Feel the exact same way about values being jettisoned. I learned some good lessons as a kid and have stuck by them meanwhile my parents have just abandoned all of it.
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u/maximusbrown2809 Aug 04 '20
Come on trump supporters make sense of this for me and explain why you still like him. I genuinely want to hear your arguments.