This is MAGAt mentality in a nutshell & why they're unreachable. He's like them.

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[The last paragraph of this article says it all.]

Trump’s opposition to masks could cost him votes in one key region: ‘I’m afraid of anti-masker meltdowns’

August 27, 2020
By Travis Gettys

President Donald Trump’s mixed messages on masks could end up costing him votes in one Michigan stronghold.

The president won 14 of the 15 counties in the state’s Upper Peninsula, which helped him eke out a 10,704-vote victory for Michigan’s 16 electoral votes, but some of his previous supporters feel let down by his response to the coronavirus pandemic, reported the New York Times.

“If Trump had just worn that damn mask from the beginning, his supporters would have too,” said lifelong Republican Rod Nelson, who voted for the president four years ago but won’t in November.

The newspaper found some “Yoopers,” as residents are called, who opposed mask requirements, but it also found others who feel like the president failed a leadership test by refusing to wear or endorse face coverings.

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“He’s a sarcastic egomaniac, but that’s part of what I like about him,” said 63-year-old Tuffy Burton, who owns a logging company. “Because maybe there’s a little bit of me that says and does the same thing.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/trumps-opposition-to-masks-could-cost-him-votes-in-one-key-region-im-afraid-of-anti-masker-meltdowns/

NYT article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/us/politics/michigan-trump.html

[mercuryblues]

1. You know what?

I don't want a president like me, but we sure would be better off right now if we did have a president like me. At least I can read.

[Aristus]

11. That's one way I have had of defining the diference between Democrats and the GOP.

We Democrats wants someone who is better than we are to be President. Smarter, more compassionate, harder working, etc.

Republicans want someone who is just like they are to be President. Just as stupid, just as backward, just as provincial, just as apathetic to the suffering of others, etc.

[brooklynite]

2. Nobody's trying to reach them...

But there ARE Trump voters who recognize the mistake they made, and we should welcome them back.

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3. MAGAts are different from some Republicans who voted for trump in 2016 as outlined in

the article. MAGAts are hopeless; Republicans who are having doubts are not. We should absolutely welcome them. When did I say we shouldn't?

[FakeNoose]

4. Let's remember that 2016 had a lot of last-minute undecided voters

... going "eeny-meeny-miney-moe." The majority of voters in any election aren't registered in either party. That means many are uncommitted and possibly undecided. Consider those who voted for Chump in 2016 - a lot of them have seen their error. A lot of them have regrets and will not make the same mistake twice.

Chump may have gotten 63 million votes last time, but he'll get way fewer this year. He has no NEW supporters and many lukewarm voters left him this year. It doesn't really matter what the screaming idiots say, there's aren't enough of them to give Chump a win. His "base" is a fiction played up by the media.

[brooklynite]

8. The Trump theory is that there ARE new supporters...

According to Axelrod and Heilemann, the Trump campaign is trying to tap into people who didn't vote at all in 2016.

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10. I'll take a vote from a Trump 2016 voter

But I'm not ready to promote them to a leadership role, which is what some of them sound like when they make their grand confession. My response to that is more like Chris Rock: What you want, a cookie?

[GodlessX]

5. Here in the South

I’m surrounded by these screaming idiots and I’m
afraid of the outcome in November. There’s just so many of them everywhere. While I’m hopeful, I tend to think we’re outnumbered.

[Alacritous Crier]

6. Yep!

It could get real weird and dangerous around here especially if we do succeed in getting this monster out of the White House.

[dalton99a]

7. They must be outnumbered on November 3rd.

[Blecht]

9. A normal person doesn't react that way when they identify similarities to a sicko in themselves

They do some soul searching, seek therapy, drop acid, go to confession -- they don't wallow in it.