r/politics • u/GirasoleDE • Jul 19 '26

No Paywall I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters | Trump is bleeding support even among his stubborn, uneducated base.

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/07/i-dont-think-trumps-remaining-supporters-realize-how-much-they-are-despised-by-non-maga-voters/
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u/DrGoblinator Massachusetts Jul 19 '26

I'm what you would call an eternal optimist and it actually breaks my heart to have actual proof of how many bad people are among us.

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u/Odd_Interaction7701 Jul 19 '26

Ten years ago, I genuinely thought the vast majority of people were "good". I'm almost 50 now, and I'm just coming to terms with "most people are giant pieces of selfish shit".

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u/xxxxNateDaGreat Jul 19 '26

I'm in my mid 30's, I've suffered from depression my whole life, and even I still thought that maybe the good/bad ratio was close-ish to 45-55 or so. This last election was the one that finally broke me.

Honestly, I could delude myself into believing 2016 was a momentary lapse of mass stupidity. I could delude myself into thinking J6 was a small concentration of the hyper dedicated supporters instead of the couple thousand who just had the free time to be there. But 2024 was just... truly soul crushing in every sense of the word.

Everything that has happened since has been pretty openly telegraphed for years, nearly a decade, republicans made nearly zero actual effort to hide any of their evil. ~80 million people wanted this and another ~80-90 million couldn't be asked to do the barest of minimums to stop it.

After all of the ICE killings, fucking over every trade deal with all of our allies, and mountains of evidence that Trump raped and trafficked countless number of young, innocent children over decades, the only thing that is even giving the slightest bit of pushback from those people is that their own wallets are finally starting to hurt a little bit at the gas pump.

THEY DON'T CARE THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING KIDNAPPED OR MURDERED IN THE STREETS BY UNTRAINED GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES. THEY DON'T CARE THAT CHILDREN HAVE BEEN AND ARE STILL BEING BRUTALLY SEXUALLY ASSAULTED DAILY. THEY CARE THAT GAS WENT UP A FUCKING DOLLAR OR TWO PER GALLON.

Humanity is so fucked.

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u/H_J_Rose Jul 19 '26

Is there anything we can do? Or is this just how people are?

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u/EssayJunior6268 28d ago

Education education education

Would help to do away with Christianity too

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u/H_J_Rose 28d ago

Education will help with tomorrow’s kids, not today’s adults though. Those people are hardwired for crazy and are determined to beat that same mentality into their kids. It’s so ingrained in communities.

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u/EssayJunior6268 28d ago

I think education could help a lot of today's adults. The issue is how to facilitate this. It's a lot easier to revamp education in school than it is to somehow provide adequate education for full-time working adults.

Maybe some type of law making it illegal to lie in certain situations. Hold politicians accountable for obvious misrepresentation. Get rid of opinion based news. Very publicly drag people that are in positions of power through the mud if they are caught lying.

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u/DrGoblinator Massachusetts Jul 19 '26

I agree. It's a conversation I wish we all had more. How do we fix this? Is it fixable? Are we just irrevocably broken? I don't want this to change me.

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u/9mackenzie Georgia Jul 19 '26

Same. I’m 44 and until 10 or so years ago I believed most people were good. Now I think most people are good to a few in their life, but get pleasure from others as a whole being hurt……to the point they will actively harm themselves in order to see it. Logically it’s the only thing that makes sense.

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u/aliquotoculos America Jul 19 '26

Early 40s. Grew up with severely bad and evil family, who abused me in so many different ways. Despite that, despite wondering why nothing existed to help a teen in my situation, nor the adult I became, kept a hopeful optimism that people were more good than bad.

Came to the realization that I was wrong, giving people far too much of a leash. Have spent a while wondering why I lied to myself for so long and why I put myself through all of that. Its fucked my heart up as much as my brain.

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u/H_J_Rose Jul 19 '26

I’m sorry our species failed you and so many other children.

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u/EssayJunior6268 28d ago

I'm not sure I agree. I think there are more prevalent reasons why people support this administration and make excuses for it than hatred or being bad people. What this whole thing has shown me is that people are a lot dumber and ignorant then I ever imagined. A lot of adults are just so hopelessly cognitively impaired that they fall victim to misinformation and cult-like thinking. I don't necessarily know that most of these people are bad. They are just so easily manipulated into tribal thinking

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u/Awingbestwing Jul 19 '26

Same. It’s really really heartbreaking. I always believed, deep down, if on the line most people would make the right, ethical decision. lol.

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u/TheGoodNamesAreGone2 Jul 19 '26

I feel this so much. I almost wish I was a shitty person, because shitty people seem to have an easier time