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53. The cruelty is indeed the point.

One of the sick reasons the Republican base loves Trump so much is that he "hurts the right people."

What I’ve been struck most by in talking to some of these Trump voters over the years is that they honestly didn’t expect that he would make them fabulously rich. They didn’t think they would personally get much out of it. They were confident that politicians didn’t really care about people like them and that good jobs weren’t coming back from overseas. They didn’t even really believe that things would be better for their kids or grandkids.

But they did think Trump would hurt the right people, at least. That usually came down to believing some combination of him kicking the immigrants out, cracking down on crime, saving unborn babies and restoring “traditional” marriage. If they couldn’t be happy, at least all the less-deserving people would get theirs.

It was revenge politics at its finest and Trump masterfully tapped into that.

- Susan J. Demas, Michigan Advance: https://www.michiganadvance.com/2020/06/24/susan-j-demas-trump-was-elected-to-hurt-the-right-people-now-hes-hurting-his-base/

A few more pieces on this subject:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/the-cruelty-is-the-point-of-trumps-approval-of-hanging-and-firing-squads-as-execution-methods/ar-BB1bveaG

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/04/09/trump-cruelty-is-point-its-actually-worse-than-that/

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelty-is-the-point/572104/