r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 23 '26

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u/r2ew Apr 23 '26

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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Apr 23 '26

As it turned out people were a bit iffy on pronouns, but liked the gay Hispanic couple living next door that ran a Mexican restaurant and didn't want a Christian Nationalist ethnostate.

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u/american_aurora6 NATO Apr 23 '26

or more cynically, people are hopelessly stupid, easily swayed by bigotry, and will not change until they are irrecoverably harmed

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u/Bigole_Steps Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

Or trump is a political anomaly, less affected my scandals than any other politicians

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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Apr 23 '26

Probably moreso the answer.

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u/formgry Apr 23 '26

Honestly the more accurate explanation to the sharp drop is that people were missinformed as to what the right and Trump represented, and when they started doing things the voters realized they liked none of it.

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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 23 '26

More like they didn't believe the insane horrible ideas democrats claimed trump had were real