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LAS14

(15,541 posts) Sat Jul 18, 2020, 12:40 PM Jul 2020

I suspect that the only reason any Trump base people are abandoning him over Corona... [View all]

...virus is that they expect their president to just make it go away. Even if he did everything right, they'd abandon him. Magical thinking. Anyway, I don't believe it's a sudden converstion to belief in science, much as I would like it to be the case.

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I suspect that the only reason any Trump base people are abandoning him over Corona... [View all] LAS14 Jul 2020 OP

I suspect that if they are abandoning him over the CV, it's because they're dead from the CV. SWBTATTReg Jul 2020 #1

Over the last couple of weeks there's been some steady, if slight, attrition in the polls... LAS14 Jul 2020 #2

why do you assume those are his base ? JI7 Jul 2020 #3

good question.... agingdem Jul 2020 #5

That's what the commentators say. nt LAS14 Jul 2020 #8

The fundamental tenet of modern conservatism is... orwell Jul 2020 #4

+1000000 Nevilledog Jul 2020 #6

I see from the effect of forcing schools to reopen inspite of what local school boards and beachbumbob Jul 2020 #7