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In reply to the discussion: Pic Of The Moment: Trump's Base Reacts To DACA Deal: The Reviews Are In [View all]Jim Lane
(11,175 posts)30. You're right. In fact, some of them are still sticking with him.
I went over to Free Republic to indulge in a bit of schadenfreude. Quite a few of them were reacting along the lines of the OP, outraged at the DACA betrayal of his hardcore supporters ("he stabs them in the back making them look like fools" ) and at what they see as the general failure of the right-wing agenda:
RE:Still no tax cuts and still no Wall
Do you need an abortion?
PP is still funded.
Do you need an abortion?
PP is still funded.
Plus, of course, the ACA still on the books and the debt ceiling extended. "Quite frankly, this does not bode well for America."
(Usually I provide links for quotations but I don't link to FR. Trust me, the quotations are genuine.)
Even with all this, however, some are still on the Trump train. They're already rationalizing:
Trump never said he would deport every illegal, just the undesirables.
"The good ones can stay" has always been his position.
"The good ones can stay" has always been his position.
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Pic Of The Moment: Trump's Base Reacts To DACA Deal: The Reviews Are In [View all]
EarlG
Sep 2017
OP
Since everything he says is a lie, he feels totally free to change his mind if there's
lark
Sep 2017
#16
I don't think he even cares. I think he'd take impeachment over Mueller getting into his finances.
Tarheel_Dem
Sep 2017
#40