Trump Voters Love Him More Than Before. Four Conservative Columnists Pinpoint Why.

[Demovictory9]

David French: In addition to the brokenism that David talks about, there’s a strong undercurrent of raw animosity in our politics. Republicans and Democrats have very negative views of each other, and many Republicans (sadly!) want their opponents to suffer. They’re actually happy to see people lose their jobs or to see nonprofits lose funding if those people are perceived as part of the “deep state” or RINOs.

So, yes, Republicans want a disruptive president, but who’s being disrupted really matters — and if it’s the government or institutions that many Republicans believe are hostile to them, then Republicans are just fine with the pain. Many Republicans dislike foreign aid. Or loathe elite universities. Or hate big liberal law firms. Students and professors at elite universities have a long track record of targeting the free speech rights of their conservative colleagues, and Republicans are rationalizing their own constitutional violations as fighting fire with fire.

Healy: That element of gleeful animosity comes through on Trump’s social media posts, David — like a “Take that!” smack, sticking it to universities or shutting down D.E.I. One of Trump’s most effective rallying cries in the last campaign was “I am your retribution.”

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His biggest policy accomplishment so far is shutting down illegal immigration — something Republican voters strongly support. His signature legislative goal is extending his first-term tax cuts — a classic Republican policy goal. He wants to fire federal bureaucrats, downsize and devolve the Department of Education, cut regulations — this isn’t some populist rebuke of Ronald Reagan’s conservatism, this IS Ronald Reagan’s conservatism! So is picking fights with liberal judges and liberal universities. And if you told someone in, say, 2004 that a Republican president was stretching the boundaries of civil liberties to deport noncitizens accused of sympathizing with Hamas and Hezbollah, absolutely nobody would regard his popularity with G.O.P. voters as a puzzle in need of explanation.



https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/opinion/trump-administration-polling.html

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. MAGAts are sadistic people.

They live for hurting others and revel in their pain and suffering.

[Irish_Dem]

2. Is the US becoming a nation of sociopaths?

[John1956PA]

3. Indifference to the suffering of others is not new.

Powerful countries in their imperialistic stages had populaces proud of their nations' exploitation of foreign lands. If people in the dominated far-off places suffered, that was okay, because life was good for the populace. Empathy has always been in short supply among the masses.

[Orrex]

4. TLDR: It's because they're a KKKult of ignorant racist fuckheads.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

5. Nor do these people follow Jesus Christ.

For Jesus Christ was WOKE for His time as He rocked the boat while He was in it. A philosophy today's MAGAts have thrown away.

So sad.

[Paladin]

6. Thanks for absolutely nothing, NY Times. As usual. (nt)

[Orrex]

7. These are, incidentally, the same fuckheads we're told to reach out to

“For the sake of the party,” or similar nonsense

[Scrivener7]

8. Maga-butt-licking NYT strikes again. Two examples:

Students and professors at elite universities have a long track record of targeting the free speech rights of their conservative colleagues, and Republicans are rationalizing their own constitutional violations as fighting fire with fire.

Give ONE damn example. Professors at universities often disagree with the speech of conservatives. Yet the NYT frames that as "targeting the free speech rights" of conservatives. It's called disagreement, assholes. That's what education is for, assholes.

Second example:

His biggest policy accomplishment so far is shutting down illegal immigration

Here's a site on illegal entries into the US. https://usafacts.org/articles/what-can-the-data-tell-us-about-unauthorized-immigration/ What no one seems to EVER report is that the Biden administration apprehended and expelled TRIPLE the numbers of people as the first Mump administration.

So much bullshit, so little time.

[Demovictory9]

9. That situation where hundreds and thousands turned themselves over to border patrol daily,

Were processed by border patrol and were bussedbto different cities and released..its over

We can't deny it. The "capture and release" which was a staple of the news in 2022, 2023, 2024 has ended.. we can't deny it.

People were watching their public schools become majority undocumented kids, watching blue cities spend millions to house migrants, etc.... and didn't under stand why.

We can't deny that the optics werent good for democrats

Trump entered office and stopped it..its the result that people cheer online