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Nevilledog

(50,659 posts)
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 12:14 PM Jul 2021

Have Trump voters come down with a serious case of Snowflake Syndrome?



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Greg Sargent
@ThePlumLineGS
Time to stop shaping our conversations about vaccine-hesitancy and voter "confidence" in elections around the feelings of Trump supporters. The specter of alienating those voters is being widely abused by bad faith actors, and we should say so. My latest:

Opinion | Have Trump voters come down with a serious case of Snowflake Syndrome?
On vaccines and voting rights, fear of offending Trump supporters has become too controlling.
washingtonpost.com
7:28 AM · Jul 23, 2021


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/23/have-trump-voters-come-down-with-serious-case-snowflake-syndrome/

To hear some pundits and Republicans tell it, millions of people across the country who voted for Donald Trump are suffering from an affliction that you might call “Snowflake Syndrome.”

On numerous fronts in our politics — from voting rights to covid-19 to the legacy of Jan. 6 — we’re being told these voters are afflicted with a deeply fragile belief system that must be carefully ministered to and humored to an extraordinary degree.

We must pass voting restrictions everywhere to assuage these voters’ “belief” that the 2020 election was highly dubious or fraudulent. We must not argue too aggressively for coronavirus vaccines, lest they feel shamed and retreat into their anti-vax epistemological shells.

And we must allow Republicans to appoint some of the most deranged promoters of the stolen election myth to a committee examining the insurrection so they’ll feel like its findings are credible.

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Have Trump voters come down with a serious case of Snowflake Syndrome? (Original Post) Nevilledog Jul 2021 OP
"a deeply fragile belief system" grumpyduck Jul 2021 #1
They've always had it. A major symptom is projecting its traits onto others. JHB Jul 2021 #2
A rare case where all those snowflakes are alike Blue Owl Jul 2021 #3

grumpyduck

(6,197 posts)
1. "a deeply fragile belief system"
Fri Jul 23, 2021, 12:24 PM
Jul 2021

-- or such a low opinion of themselves that they can't stand to be wrong.

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