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tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:59 AM Jan 2017

In Iowa, Trump Voters Are Unfazed by Controversies

MONTICELLO, Iowa — The Table of Knowledge was delving into President-elect Donald J. Trump’s plans to upend government, and marveling at how he had forced his fellow Republicans in the House to reverse themselves on gutting the Office of Congressional Ethics.

“He’s getting responses; things are happening,” Jerry Retzlaff, a retiree, said. “He got Congress to turn themselves around with one tweet.”

“There’s no secret the press doesn’t like him, and neither does a lot of the leadership,” he added. “And that’s because he’s planning on making a lot of changes.”

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The Iowans I interviewed largely went about their lives outside the political hothouse of social media. They did not follow hour-by-hour developments of the presidential transition. Indeed, on Wednesday, several were unfamiliar with the reports that Russia was holding compromising information on the president-elect, which Mr. Trump addressed in a news conference.

Many were hazy on specific policy details about how, say, House Republicans were seeking to replace Medicare with a voucher system. These voters feared an outbreak of European-style terrorist attacks by Muslims in the United States, maybe in their own communities. And overwhelmingly, Trump supporters did not want their hard-earned money redistributed to people they regarded as undeserving.

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“I know these guys are really rich,” he said. “They may have pulled off a few plays that weren’t exactly on the up-and-up, but they all had to be pretty smart to be billionaires. If they replace their own concerns with the concerns of the country, they can make things really move forward. That’s what I’m excited about.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/us/donald-trump-iowa-conservatives.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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Zambero

(8,954 posts)
7. Fear masks reality
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 01:10 AM
Jan 2017

There are things people need to be concerned about, but they get overshadowed by echo chamber bullshit.

benld74

(9,888 posts)
8. So those with $$$$$$
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 01:11 AM
Jan 2017

Got their $$$ because they're smart
But those liberal educated elitist
Know nothing?

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
10. That is what we are dealing with..
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 01:30 AM
Jan 2017

And it's true from Iowa to Tennessee, Wisconsin to Wyoming....Trump voters are "true believers". They are in their own bubble and will never ever see they have been conned. Just tonight, I saw one on my FB feed suggest that Trump donating his hotel earnings from foreign dignitaries to the Treasury was the greatest "Ask not what your country can do for you moment.." in modern times!! They believe all of his bullshit and they will continue to do so.

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
11. Just because you are rich does not mean you got it by being smart.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 01:33 AM
Jan 2017

You can simply get it by having no problem screwing your fellow humans unfairly. Oh, by the way they will never put their own concerns behind the American peoples. At some point they will see the truth but by then it will be way to late.

mvd

(65,148 posts)
12. No, not all billionaires are smart
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 02:03 AM
Jan 2017

And some of the ones who are use a malicious kind of intelligence, for their own gain. That would be the type of smart billionaires in Trump's cabinet. There is a lot of misinformation and stupidity in those Trump voters, but for the ones who switched from Democratic to Republican, we will have to find a way to humor them and get the Midwest back. No compromising our principles, though!

Tikki

(14,537 posts)
14. sorry guys, their concerns have nothing to do with you all, didn't you learn that with boosh!
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:22 AM
Jan 2017

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He's out to pay off his private debt with your had earned taxes.
He's not going to show you his taxes because of the sight of hand he get's away with.

Tikki

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
17. Nah... ya see....
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:13 AM
Jan 2017

We just don't understand them enough. At least that's what some folks have told me.

DeminPennswoods

(15,246 posts)
18. So they "deserve" farm subsidies?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 08:36 AM
Jan 2017

I know a lot of people who worked all their lives and are now on the cusp of struggling. I'm sure if the $s spent on farm subsidies were redistributed to them, their lives would be made a little easier.

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