When Biden was President, they talked to Trump voters about how they felt

[edhopper]

about the Economy.

Now that Trump is President, they talk to Trump voters about how they feel about the Economy.

Your liberal Media at work.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/trump-says-iran-war-is-worth-economic-pain-these-rural-voters-agree-2026-05-16/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=6a08460005fd2a00018cbe86&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

[newdeal2]

1. They're the only real Americans, per the media

We don't count apparently and shouldn't be asked about our views on Trump.

[Johonny]

2. "Real" Americans

White Rural America is always depicted as real America even if most Americans live in large urban cities... been like that forever.

We kiss these people's asses and they're always mad.

[LuvLoogie]

5. We need urban farms and gardens run by non-bigots.

Fuck the self-righteous MAGA. May they work for the Chinese on great grand pappy's stolen land

[sop]

12. Rural America is experiencing severe economic distress as a result of Trump's trade wars, tariffs, cutting programs, and

all his other bullshit, yet they still support Trump and his Republican henchmen.

[Maru Kitteh]

20. He hates who they hate, and that is the only thing they require from him.

It’s all they need.

[mountain grammy]

3. AftIer living 30 years in very rural Colorado

I'm happily living in the city.. I miss the silence and seeing stars at night, but that's about it.

[hay rick]

4. They have an agenda.

Your welfare is incidental to their primary concerns.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[Klarkashton]

7. They know how Democrats feel. My take is they think that

Trump voters make for a more interning story.
The result is that it becomes advocacy for trump.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

10. I agree. If you ask ten Democrats a question you will get roughly the same answer...

...ten different times, but if you ask ten Republicans a question you will get ten glimpses into a Charlie and the Chocolate Factoryesque world of delusion that will garner more attention.

It is a different discussion, but it seems like the human brain evolved to crave fantasy over reality--probably because for hundreds of thousands of years fantasy was most of what we had to explain the world around us. Reality has made so much progress over the last 150 years that we seem to be falling back into a pattern of elevating fantasy again--a luxury created by the very success of reality-based progress.

And yes, the result is that it mainstreams the fever-dream we currently call conservatism.

Fun times....

[aggiesal]

8. Why does each one interviewed in the artcle say ...

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Democrats are so bad?
Are they so FOX brainwashed or are they just born that way?

[ProfessorGAC]

9. And, That's The Problem

All these cultists saying they have buyers' remorse; rarely do any say they will vote D from now on.
And there are those here that say Dems do not have a messaging problem.
This situation appears to be proof that they do.
An absolute idiot & failure in the WH; an obsequious & enabling Congress; a compliant judiciary; and we can't sell better ideas?
That sounds like a root cause issue to me.

[betsuni]

16. "and we can't sell better ideas?" -- what ideas are Republicans selling? How is their messaging better?

What are Republicans voters voting for? Are they really voting for Republicans, or against Democrats?

[ProfessorGAC]

21. You're Kidding, Right?

Who controls all 3 branches of government?
They obviously have sent a message people are more wiling to hear? Bad ideas, empty promises, lies, & all.
How could you even suggest that they haven't beaten our side on messaging? Ideas bad for the country & its people in every thing they pitch, yet they won the WH 2 of the last 3 elections and control both houses of congress with a compliant Supreme Court.
Your refusal to accept that there is a problem is TIWWLE. (This Is Why We Lose Elections)
The Failure should have been trounced all 3 times, yet here we are.

[Woodwizard]

11. You can't fix stupid.

Just have to outvote them.

[UpInArms]

13. It is way past time for that stupid "liberal media" trope to be destroyed

Corporate media is never liberal - they are only interested in fleecing the rubes

[GoodRaisin]

18. The Republican party has turned fascist before our eyes and the media never mentions the word.

That’s all I need to know about the media.

Many of the R voting rubes don’t know that. They vote for whoever has an R beside their name. If the media would stop normalizing Republicans behavior and refer to them by what they are - fascists - maybe some of those R voters would wake up to the change the party has taken, but apparently that’s never going to happen with this media.

When a sitting senator points out that it is a “Trump Party” the media needs to say what that means, which is that the American ideal of democracy has disappeared from that party. The message needs to be to keep voting for them if you no longer want a democratic government, not even a republic form of government.

[UpInArms]

19. The guardians of pedophiles did not even have a platform

Other than … TFG

[Tim S]

14. People can't look away from car wrecks. Eyes equals Dollars

[BWdem4life]

15. Well said. nt

[JI7]

17. They talk to Democrats also

but they all things like "are you being unfair to Trump"

[Initech]

22. There is no such thing as the liberal media.

Our media is owned by billionaire conservatives and caters to republicans. The days of Edward Morrow and Woodward & Bernstein don't exist anymore.

If we want to get rid of this evil regime, then we've got to start with taking back the media. We can't stop fascism with strongly worded letters.