"Here's What Trump Voters Say About" - I DON'T CARE!!!! [View all]
Washington Post (subscription already canceled) and NY Times LOVE to do features interviewing groups of Trump voters on "how they're feeling." They do it before and after elections, and I've been sick of the idea for 25 years.
Why do we need to know what these imbeciles are thinking at this point?
At first, the idea seemed that understanding them was the key to reaching them, and reversing whatever the hell was causing them to vote against their own self-interests. And so:
- After the 2000 election, we tried to understand "the southern voter."
- After the 2004 election, we tried to understand "the rural voter."
- After the 2016 election, we tried to understand the "low-information, easily-manipulated voter with deep-seated social hatreds of all kinds we never realized until then."
- After the 2024 election, I don't want to understand anything more about them except how to defeat them.
These interviews only prove - over and over and over again - that Republican voters bought the lies of rightwing propaganda. We get that. If the journalists who interview them would ask questions (for example, "Where did you find that information?" or "Why do you think that?" ) and then correct their statements with verifiable FACTS ("Saddam Hussein was not behind the 9/11 attacks," "Kamala Harris has published her policies -- let me read that one to you," ) would it make a difference? I don't know. That is a question.
It would be something worth reading, at least: Does presenting facts change minds? If not, why not?
Unfortunately, it's more something Jordan Klepper of the Daily Show does, not esteemed newspapers.
Is it just me?
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