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In reply to the discussion: I know this is going to be unpopular but I am friends with and I understand many Trump supporters [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)as are many in the area where I am staying now.
No, they don't keep up with the news. They are busy w/kids, it's true (some of 'em). But others just aren't political or watch the news, ever. They are not educated and don't seem to want to educate themselves. They get partisan emails (the fake news circulations), and they send each other those stories via Facebook.
Facebook is Yuge with the Trumpers I know.
Some are, in fact, bigots & misogynists, even though they may not call themselves that.
They DID vote specifically for Trump. Because he's a billionaire businessman, he's against the EPA (and "them other libral things" , he's against illegal immigration, he's against Washington, he's for bringing jobs back to the U.S., he's going to repeal NAFTA, he's against NATO and the U.N., he's against letting those Muslim refugees in. At least two of my relatives think there is a secret plan for either NATO or the U.N. to come into America and kill Americans in the street.
He's pro-gun. The Trumpers here are big on guns and the ability to take their guns anywhere and everywhere.
The only pause I've heard secondhand about one or two of them is....they didn't like the Syria bombing. They didn't vote for him to get us into a war and start "messing around in other countries' affairs."
Some are on Social Security & Medicare, so I assume they think Trump won't allow those to be cut (they would be wrong about that).
They live in their own little worlds, like Trump lives in his. They never watch the Morning Joe show or MSNBC or CNN (some refer to that as Clinton Network). They believe what Trump says. He said Obama wiretapped him, so Obama wiretapped him. It's that simple. They are convinced everything anyone else says are lies, and it's Trump who is "telling it like it is."
And above all things, they HATED the Clintons. And they HATED Obama (he's a Muslim, you know - according to them). Not sure why. I try not to talk politics with them.
The glimmer of hope: They do NOT want to do anything with or for any other country. "America First." If Trump persists with that, without it being related to the issues they voted for him for, they will not be happy.
Also, it's possible some of them are on Obamacare and don't understand what can happen to their insurance. If their insurance becomes a problem, they will not be happy. And believe me, they ALL have pre-existing conditions.