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Van Jones revisits three Trump voters as nation grapples with unrest
https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/19/politics/van-jones-trump-voters/index.html
Wow. Just unbelievable, the reasoning each of the 3 uses. THIS is what we are up against.
hatrack
(59,584 posts)This was the moment at which Van Jones became irrelevant.
Or was that back in 2017? Losing track here . . .
tman
(983 posts)Hard pass on both.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)Jspur
(578 posts)the most disappointing one out of the three since he had voted for democrats since '76 but flipped to Trump in '16. I remember his interview with Van Jones 4 years ago and had some empathy for him and his family. He was struggling and looking for hope and believed Trump could help him. He was also disappointed Hillary didn't show up to campaign in his area of Ohio. I get the anger and the hurt he had but it's obvious this guy is now looking for revenge against the Democratic party. Him saying Biden is worse than Trump seals the deal for me and I'm not a Biden guy since I voted for Bernie. This guy sickens me to the core because anyone whose voted for the Dems for 40 plus years can't really believe in the Republican ideology of free market bs and low taxes on the rich which Trump has pushed in his administration.
I'm rambling but I feel this guy is what I call a suicide voter. He's upset and just want to see the system get burned down hence his reasoning for voting Trump again.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Jspur
(578 posts)have coined. I thought about how Muslim terrorists tend to have a lot of suicide bombers. These suicide bombers sacrifice themselves for 2 reasons one is religious beliefs that they will be rewarded 72 virgins and the other is because they feel they are going to harm their enemies and make great change. There is a good contingent of Trump voters I feel are just are suicide voters. They don't believe in Trump but they are using him as a proxy to harm the people they hate which can be democrats, minorities,etc. They also believe by voting for him that they are getting back at the system and that Trump will destroy it which is their goal. So in a nutshell a suicide voter is someone who votes for a candidate to either harm a group of people or to destroy the current government system or a combination of both.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)How many of these idiot expeditions need to be done FFS? Its like Van has a kink for it. You know what you never see? One of these networks sitting down with regular people who cant stand Trump be they Democrats, independents or disaffected former Republicans. You never ever see fucking Van talk to those people.
stillcool
(32,626 posts)of protesters could they have spoken to...in how many states? Thousands upon thousands...but give them one right-winger and that one is the story. The only story.
BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)Not when there are circus freaks to film.
ecstatic
(32,701 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)blitzen
(4,572 posts)he's sticking with it. But he won't admit that these folks are on the far, dark side of the road.