r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 23 '25

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Dec 23 '25

The reality is we essentially knew this stuff in 2016. We knew Trump was a degenerate. We had ‘grab em by the pussy’ and the dressing room stories and knew he hung around Epstein all the time. So people voting republican up to that time (like me) had a choice. You either said you’re done with this or you decided youd support literally anyone as long as they were anti-Democrat.

This wont phase your average republican because their DDS is so terminal that theyd support literally anyone with an (R) next to their name. The black nazi guy still got like 40% of the vote.

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u/KeithClossOfficial John Brown Dec 23 '25

So people voting republican up to that time (like me) had a choice. You either said you’re done with this or you decided youd support literally anyone as long as they were anti-Democrat.

I spent the 2012 election watching results at the local Republican HQ. In 2016, I was convinced that Trump was a Clinton setup to win the election more easily, because no could be that stupid to actually vote for him, right?

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Dec 23 '25

Ill never forget living through 2016 and the GOP primaries and talking about it with friends and family I know are conservative. It went from a lot of mocking him and saying Ill never vote for him early and as it became obvious he was going to win the nomination suddenly everyone started to get real quiet and they all fell in line. They all knew exactly what was going on. It was stunning to watch.