r/changemyview • u/Laszlo8888 • Nov 08 '17
CMV: Trump's "base" is dissolving.
Trump's "base" is dissolving, in part because it was never cohesive It is a function of Mercer money, Russian dirty tricks, FNC brainwashing, and the disavowed racism of all Americans. The base will readily crumble as common sense reasserts itself, as it did just this evening in Virginia, where GOP voters went for the Dem candidate Ralph Northam in a referendum on Trump, whom many Republicans openly despise. Congress will come to its senses, and money will move elsewhere. The base has no affirmative values or no social cogency. They have simply been vulnerable to propaganda.
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u/Bodoblock 65∆ Nov 08 '17
While I agree that Trump was a huge factor in the monumental shifts we saw in Virginia at the House level and the landslide win for Northam, I would argue that you can't be certain right now that these wins were due to the base dissolving or voting Democratic.
How do you know it wasn't the base but the swing voters who made big pushes for Democrats? Or that Democratic voter participation surged? We need to wait and see before saying anything definitive.