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In reply to the discussion: 'He ran on lies!' Trump voter turns on MAGA after being wrestled to the ground by ICE [View all]B.See
(8,898 posts)35. Good question. My theory:
Many bought into the HATE: of belittling, delegitimizing, disparaging, "othering," and looking down the nose at somebody ELSE (minorities, women, gays, undocumented immigrants, the homeless, the poor, "those people"....)
under the DELUSION that doing so made them "one of the boys." Under the ILLUSION that it somehow gave them "membership," as it were.
THEY WERE WRONG. Trump & Co. will NEVER accept certain groups of people as one of them. It's all an illusion, until they don't need you anymore.
But hey. Not to worry. The newly awakened can express their outrage at BETRAYAL come next election.
Oh, wait.... there may not BE ONE.
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'He ran on lies!' Trump voter turns on MAGA after being wrestled to the ground by ICE [View all]
B.See
Aug 2025
OP
The pedofelon said "criminals" and "rapists" and "illegals" and they believed
Justice matters.
Aug 2025
#30
Some of the people who are complaining now literally are "rapists, criminals, and illegals."
yardwork
Aug 2025
#41
Yes of course, but the Catholic priests have still used that argument effectively
FakeNoose
Aug 2025
#42