'MAGA In A Nutshell': Voter's Wild Explanation For Backing Trump Goes Viral

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'MAGA In A Nutshell': Voter's Wild Explanation For Backing Trump Goes Viral

A Pennsylvania man’s reasoning behind his vote for Donald Trump has gone viral and left social media users aghast.

The man’s quote was included in an article by The Philadelphia Inquirer that explored how the president-elect, buoyed by voters’ economic anxieties, won Pennsylvania despite being called a fascist.

The excerpt that went viral on social media read:

In Scranton on Wednesday, Matt Wolfson, a 45-year-old former construction worker, looked around at poverty in the Rust Belt city and thought the nation needed a change in leadership.

Wolfson said he didn’t love the dictatorial aspect of Trump’s personality, but thought it could help keep the country out of wars and maybe bring peace to some other conflicts, including in Ukraine.

“He’s good and bad. People say he’s a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler,” Wolfson said. “But I voted for the man.”

During the campaign, Trump was compared to Adolf Hitler, who started World War II by invading Poland. Trump used similar rhetoric to that of the Nazi dictator, calling opponents “vermin” and claiming that undocumented immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.”

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[Blue_Tires]

1. My intelligence is most insulted by this GOP pivot to supposedly being pacifist peaceniks now...

I really wish I could introduce the Republicans of today to the Republicans I've known from 1980-2016... Because I remember what they were calling me when I spoke out against the first Gulf War, the second Gulf War, and the GWOT.

But Wolfson is evading the real answer here, which is he just felt more secure with a white man running things instead of a black woman. Doesn't even matter that he's totally incompetent... or a criminal... or a despot... or that he's functionally illiterate... or a Nazi.

[ShazzieB]

14. Who cares about morals, or ethics, or even i.q. points?

He has a penis! What better qualification could there possibly be?

[tanyev]

2. Yep. I saw a FB post by someone I knew in high school,

a guy who hardly ever posts anything political. He loves the Department of Government Efficiency. “Don’t know if I’ll like all the changes, but we really need this.”

*smh*

[prodigitalson]

5. Because that's totally how you make government more efficient, a brand new agency

that is just hardcore stupid, right there

[Walleye]

6. Great, it's the equivalent of catching every salmon that swims up the river

Very efficient but very destructive, there aren’t any left for the year after that. Efficient isn’t always the best way to do something in fact quite often it’s the worst. Efficiency is a fascist concept. IMO
They didn’t just reject the woman candidate, they rejected all of the things most women value.

[Permanut]

3. My Father, my wife's father, and millions of their fellow patriots,

fought to defeat Hitler; many were injured and many died to rid the world of this menace.

I've never said this on DU, but go to Hell, Mr. Wolfson.

[Emrys]

4. Same old story

[LoisB]

7. I truly hope that Mr. Wolfson sits out the next election (if there is one).

[Skittles]

8. confirms what I already knew

MAGAts are A-OK with fascism

[djacq]

9. The ignorance is astronomical

[NoMoreRepugs]

10. Musk and efficiency don't belong in the same sentence.

[EnergizedLib]

11. Don't mind me

That I have no interest in unity with this.

[paleotn]

12. Hey! Hitler made the trains run on time!

Sure there was bad stuff....but....

Who knew Idiocracy was a documentary. And the people who will get fucked first and hardest.....45 year old former construction workers...former....as in he more than likely lives off the government dole. Bend over big boy, this one's gonna hurt! Remember, you brought this on yourself.

[AZLD4Candidate]

20. That was Mussolini.

[lapfog_1]

26. who didn't really

it was mostly propaganda.

[paleotn]

29. Forget it, I was rolling.

[Justice matters.]

13. "looked around at poverty in the Rust Belt city"

I am absolutely certain he doesn't know any Bill killed by his "new leadership" cons in Congress, like the Child Tax Credit, and he has zero idea how poverty will get astronomically worse when they will kill the ACA, deport millions of workers and inflation will skyrocket with 20% tariffs on all imports...

Billionaires will keep on getting wealthier, though, probably like they never did before.

The ignorance in the USA is winning, not the 99%.

[Fish700]

15. What a dipshit.

[Biophilic]

16. They obviously don't have a clue what that means.

I don’t know whether it’s lack of moral upbringing, poor teaching of history in school, inability to problem solve and think critically, or just plain stupidity. Some where this country failed its people and now it’s people have failed the country.

[Farmer-Rick]

17. Oh I get it

He voted for the man.

Because a woman president is far worse than a dictator or another Hitler.

[Dem4life1970]

18. "I love the poorly educated..." -Twice Impeached, Rapist, Insurrectionist 34 times convicted felon

[AZLD4Candidate]

19. Charles Taylor in Liberia: "He killed my mother. He killed my father. But I'll still vote for him."

Same shit, different asshole.

[Demobrat]

21. 45 years old. Former construction worker.

What does he do now? Collect disability? Live off his mom’s social security? Bet he’s not too disabled to hang around the pool hall all day. Don’t worry, guy, they’ll get around to you.

[ancianita]

22. These trump voters are hopelessly mindless.

[Deminpenn]

23. Perspective from a rust belt town

There is a true sense of being left behind in towns like mine and where this guy lives. I know I feel it. It's so exhausting having to compete for limited grants because the tax base isn't there to generate revenue from property taxes and businesses regularly win property tax assessment disputes that lower their taxes. Schools are chronically underfunded that is exacerbated by having to make payments to charter schools. Because there's no really good jobs or much to do, smart young people leave for greener pastures and aren't replaced. That's a formula for continued decline, not for growth or sustainability. Ironically, these are exactly the problems Bidenomics is addressing, but long term structural problems aren't solved overnight.

My home town has taken a few small steps forward, but it has taken Herculean efforts by the mayor, City council and a couple extraordinarily dedicated members of our community development corporation to pull even those small gains off.

I know Trump isn't the answer, but plenty of voters thought like this guy.

I don't know, maybe a better strategy would've been to run on Bidenomics. Maybe it would've been to Harris like fixing I95 in two weeks like Shapiro did was to him. Voters would've seen government work, not just be some abstract thing that has no impact on their daily lives.

[Liberal In Texas]

24. You're going to lose your freedom. The women in your life will not be able to get health care...but at least

you're going to have cheaper gas (maybe.... he probably lied about that too.)

[Demobrat]

25. What he is going to lose is minimum wage,

overtime pay, sick leave, workman’s compensation, health insurance, and just about everything else that makes it possible for the poorly educated to eke out a living.
It’s DoorDash for you, young man. Aren’t you glad gas is cheap?

[Liberal In Texas]

28. Yes. And the weekly trip to Walmart or wherever is going to start costing twice as much as

tariffs will drive up the cost of clothing and anything made offshore and since the migrants have been deported that worked in agriculture your food will also start costing even more than twice as much.
As least your gas is cheap(er) but you probably won't be shopping all that often anyway.

[mahina]

27. I am praying that the security that protected us since 9-11 doesn't dissolve. Some folks have no idea what is being done

for them and how lucky they are to be American.

May wisdom prevail.

Rough.