A silver lining, maybe? Or wishful thinking?

[Whiskeytide]

9. Usually I would agree. But...

... I think it was different in 2016. I’ve posted about this before. Here in Alabama there was a lot of press in September ‘16 about record new voter registrations. Usually good for us. But I saw what counties were at the top of that list. They were the deepest red counties in the state. No way those were dem votes.

I think trump brought out a new breed of depolorable that had remained in the shadows not really participating. Not the tea party, triangle hat wearing pic nic idiots we saw on the news. I’m talking about the truely scary assholes who make you want to leave a place when they show up.

Historically they DON’T vote unless they really get their hate on. They hate government. Don’t want their identities known. Don’t want to get on confiscation lists. The SC crowd and their ilk. 8 years of a black dude, and trump’s overt racism lined them up around the block in 2016. Those people tuned the election in ‘16, I think (among many other coalescing factors).

They might sit it out this Nov unless they are riled up.