Trump voters have a severe mental flaw that is not talked about much.

[shockey80]

Trump has insulted his voters everyday he has been in office. He insults them every time he tweets.

Years ago when Trump said this, I could shoot somebody on 5th ave and my voters would not care. That was not a compliment. That was a bigly insult that went right over the Trump voters heads. He was saying he owned his voters.

Every lie, tweet, Trump has made was directed at his voters because he knows they are fools who will believe anything he says. They unconditionally dismiss any crazy act, statement Trump makes.

I could never have imagined millions of Americans could be insulted every fucking day by a lunatic and not notice.

The legacy of Trump voters is being written, it will be for all time and it will be strongly ugly.

[RockRaven]

1. Every blatant laughable lie Trump spews is an assertion of dominance over his followers

And they pathetically parrot his transparent nonsense as an expression of their fealty and revel in their own abjection.

[kimbutgar]

2. All the MF45 supporters I personally know have complained about their f'ed childhoods

If you don’t get the nurturing you need growing up or someone who gives you confidence when you’re an adult one can easily become a hateful unhinged mentally ill person.

Definition of MF 45 And his supporters.

[Dream Girl]

3. How did this happen. I seem to recall in the first of 2016 he didn't have a huge following until

He did. How did he flip so many. When and how did they become bamboozled

[dmr]

28. I think some, but not all, were swayed by the GOP's acquiescence.

If their silence means he's okay, then he's okay. After this, those people just fell in line. No minds of their own.

Add to Fox, Rush, etc that also acquiesced (remember in the very beginning, Trump was considered a crazy disaster) ... well, there you go.

It's all about not having minds of their own. Followers to their own detriment.

I'd feel sorry for them, but I don't. I do feel bad for all the rest of us, though. We get punished for their lack of will and critical thinking.

I said a long time ago that if the GOP stood up to Trump, the base would begin to follow. At least some of them. You know, peer pressure. Sounds so junior high schoolish.

[scarytomcat]

31. He was on TV for free every day spouting his crazy shit

Hanuty, Morning Joe and others gave him free air time to campaign
Hilary got nothing but insulted and lied about and still she won the popular vote
Dipshit was a celebrity TV personality he had a leg up
Hilary had faced decades of harassment and hatred

[Walleye]

4. And most of the GOP Senators, many that he's insulted personally

[volstork]

16. He's got dirt on them.

Exhibit One: Lindsey Graham

[wnylib]

19. Well, His pal Vlad did used to

be the head of a spy agency.

[Ingersollman]

35. Remember

that the RNC was hacked prior to the 2016 election just as the DNC was. Why has there been no release of damaging information on anyone in the GOP? I'll tell you why. Vlad is using it as kompromat.

[BComplex]

5. The trump supporters have no self respect. They have arrogance, which is usually

an indication of a lack of self respect.

Arrogance is usually an argument you have with yourself as to whether you're totally worthless or not.

[bigtime]

14. i believe this to be correct

I posted something similar below before I read your post. You put it much more concisely.

[AleksS]

6. They don't care though. They're the kids

Who hang around the bully at school, not caring that he insults them as long he insults others too and lets them join in.

As long as trump emboldens them to insult others (racism, sexism, homophobia, etc. ) they’ll keep eating his excrement with a smile on their faces.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. I think MAGAts envy his narcissism and power and view him as their role model

They wish to be more like him, so they can take out their rage on others. Look at the way they treat people. They only care about how they can get more money, more possessions, and more victims to feed their sense of power.

[mnmoderatedem]

8. not enough time

to get through all of trump supporters' mental flaws, there are just not enough hours in the day...

[KS Toronado]

9. Wonder if all the stupidity we're seeing today is the result of lack of discipline in schools and

parents being unable to spank kids at home?

[bucolic_frolic]

11. That's a new angle

Spanking raises IQ.

[Locrian]

13. basically the opposite for the trump supporters

I see it in a lot of old high school guys I knew

Daddy spanked (and beat) the crap out of them
If not, psychologically abused them, didn't think they were "worth" anything, etc
It's classic authoritarian / abuser.

1) Daddy is never wrong
2) They must have "made" him do it
3) Daddy is just showing them how much he loves them.

Go to beginning: Daddy is never wrong

[LiberalLoner]

29. +1

[Duncan Grant]

30. You might want to read up on trauma and child abuse (or use the sarcasm tag). eom

[Karadeniz]

10. Saying his base would ignore murder tells us neither he nor his base cares about rule of law,

A lethal quaity for a democracy to function.

[bigtime]

12. if you respect someone you don't lie to them constantly

He holds nothing but absolute disdain for the public. He would never in a million years socialize with the people who vote for him. You're right that his behavior toward them is extremely insulting and shows complete disrespect. I believe that the people who still admire him are those who find his insults align with their own lack of self-respect.

edit: fixed word salad

[ashling]

15. His followers vote for him

not because they think he is doing something that will help them,
but because he promises to bring harm to others they disdain.

[crickets]

18. *ding!* Winner.

A Trump voter hurt by the shutdown reveals the real reason the president attracts hardcore supporters

But Crystal Minton, a secretary at the prison who is also a single mother caring for disabled parents, had a somewhat different reaction — one that reveals an essential truth about the core Trump’s political appeal.

“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this [shutdown],” Minton told Mazzei. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” [snip]

This is not an accident. Trump’s political victory and continuing appeal depend on a brand of politics that marginalizes and targets groups disliked by his supporters. Trump supporters don’t so much love the Republican party as they hate Democrats, a phenomenon political scientists call “negative partisanship.” They like Trump not because he sells them on the GOP, but because they believe he’ll stick it to the Democrats harder than anyone else. [snip]

Antoine Banks, a political psychologist at the University of Maryland, wrote a book on the connection between anger as an emotion and racial politics. When politicians gin up anger, an emotion that necessarily has a negative target, voters tend to think about the world in more racial (and racist) terms. Trump makes his voters angry, he centers that anger on hated targets, and that makes them want to take his side.

This is what makes Trumpism work. This is the dark heart of our political moment. Even people who are tremendously vulnerable themselves, like Crystal Minton, support Trump because of his capacity to inflict pain on others they detest. The cruelty, as the Atlantic’s Adam Serwer says, is the point.

Sad and so ugly, but true. 😕

[wnylib]

21. Sadly, so true. Every word.

[BComplex]

23. Wow. That totally sucks. I guess Fox "news" has done its job.

When are we going to make new laws on what is considered "news" again?

[Niagara]

27. +1 Exactly.

Cruelty is the point with him and them.

[mwb970]

17. Lifelong Democrat trump became a republican to run for office.

He knew damn well that his lies and con games would never work on Democratic voters, so he targeted weak-minded religious simpletons. And voila!

[scarytomcat]

32. he ran to the left but is governing as a rightwing dictator

he was very populist

[Cosmocat]

20. The evil liberal boogyman

He didn't not do this to them, they have conditioned for decades by right wing propaganda:

1) They have relentlessly cast the evil liberal boogyman. This is the core element. There is this evil, hateful person out there that they have to rally around hating. Generalized and meant to include anyone not them.

2) They have had their pride stroked - you are the bestest christian and patriot. Only you love your country. You are all that is good and virtuous. And again, the evil liberal boogyman is godless, hates your country and immoral in every way.

3) Finally, you are a victim and under attack ... by the evil liberal boogyman.

These tones and messages are intended to program these people to believe that any means is justified in the battle against the liberal, and they would EAGERLY allow themselves to be disadvantaged economically, to have their health care be tenuous, etc. if they are told it hurts the liberal.

All of this was well in place before 45 came down the escalator. But, his master skill is knowing how to stoke the lesser instincts of others and took the whip from the republican party by more directly saying what they had for so long mealy mouthed around.

[wnylib]

22. Yup. And Hillary was the ultimate

evil liberal for decades, according to the Republican party. As Bill said at the Dem convention in 2016, they went after her long ago because they jnew she was competent and good at what she does. She represented to them all that they live to hate

[Gothmog]

24. trump supporters are really stupid people

It takes a very stupid person to buy the crap that trump is trying to sell

[ooky]

25. They even repeat his lies to themselves.

I've yet to meet a Trump supporter who will admit they didn't get anything from the tax scam.

[Skittles]

26. try to imagine Trump and his gold digger inviting them into his home

[louis-t]

33. He knows they are as immature as he is.

He plays on that.

[keithbvadu2]

34. Drives libruls crazy

Drives libruls crazy