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45 has no plan for making life better for others. He plans to establish authoritarian rule, like Vlad. His cronyism is scary. His appointments are based on loyalty, not experience. His nepotism is atrocious. It’s all about him. Have you ever heard that before?

Classic fascist tactics.

Trump & Elon knows our government just prints our currency

It wasn't the economy, stupid. It was the white supremacy.

In other news: water is wet.

Republicans have been running on white supremacy under siege since the 90s. Nothing else can get them a win.

I hate the haters. How do you hijack a successful population into Fascism? Release their inner fears and allow them to expose their repressed hatred of others. Disgusting. 🚬😎

Wow you people are really slow on the uptake aren't you?

100%

He tapped into people's fears & gave them false hope that he was their savior. youtube.com/live/BlcSkas...

When who you hate is the unifying factor, it's hard to get through with a positive counter-message.

Duh. And you're not gonna hear it from MSM. Turn it off people. You're wasting your time and they're fucking with your head.

Not to mention this follows an infamous playbook from some 90 years ago.

That picture really encapsulates the mentality of much of his base. She's wishing for something, totally unaware of the full implications. She is probably friends with someone at risk and doesn't even realize it. Internment camps, reduction in farm output, humanitarian and family crises, etc.

Trump doesn't give two f#cks about anything he says. Everytime his mouth opens a lying spirit goes out to deceive the hateful and gullible and greedy.

Yep pretty much

Salt-of-the-Earth Christians did this. MAGA of yesteryear.

true

It will. It always does.

MAGA is all about identity politics, but they accuse Dems of it and we don’t pushback.

Any ideas on what might be?

As he did in 2016 Trump rose to power by saying bad things about people his supporters don't like. It's not exactly a new a formula. In 2016 it was the 3Ms of Muslim, Mexicans and Media. In 2024 Trump added Trans people to the hate list.

Oh, he knew how to tune into them, use them, for sure.

Imagine holding up a sign that says "MASS DEPORTATIONS" and with a big smile. And these people masquerade as Christians. Real Christians should denounce them loudly and persistently.

Not o fond of illegals, I see this as a win.

The consensus was his supporters liked him be cause he hated the same people they hated!

I’m exhausted by white male grievance.

No $hit!!!!

Trump & his Reich-wing media enablers are stoking the fearmongering 24/7...these people are terrified...& that turns into hatred. Our #1 problem in this country is propaganda & disinfo, imho, & until we can get a handle on that, this country's fucked...🤬

I did nazi that coming.

Cult of hate. 🤮

Picture of lady how white of you

THIS! Divide and conquer keeps working. UNITE AND KICK ASS. F. Come on!

From Wicked Wizard: The best way to bring folks together is to give them a real good enemy.

When Trump ruins the economy and he ruins his base financially, I would love to see that smirk wiped off the face of this fowl woman holding the sign.

So you’re saying Trump preyed on the weak minded and gullible. Trump surely is Wicked.

But see my thought is Did he really win? Musk Putin Others had a hand in this election. Bomb threats Burned ballot drop off boxes Kamala’s name left off absentee ballots Musk starlink’s links to voting machines Yes, people voted to hurt others but a win? I don’t know-something doesn’t feel right.

stupid

He encouraged rage, revenge, hate and fear. Those who voted for him must really have pent up rage, revenge, hate and fear strangulating their warped minds.🙄

Will ya just look at Ava Braun smiling her evil fascist smile.

The fear and anger as a motivator is classic America, so nobody should be surprised. But how can you run a “joy and hope” campaign when voters 1. tie you to Biden l, with whom they associate no joy nor hope and 2. you keep telling people you’re not going to break from Biden’s policies if you win?

They going to be mad when they realize some of those are people they love, people who are loved by those they care about or people they need in their life, cause oh boy....some of these old people with assistant living aides are going to be in a world of hurt. Leopards are about to feast.

He appealed to the worst of people and the worst in people.

He is the world's biggest divider and liar. The only reason he won was because he appealed to those who hate the same people and concepts he hates.

Malignant Narcissist are gonna malignant narcissist. He feeds off of division and chaos, and zero empathy for others including his supporters.

Another episode of Trump voters’ “white-aboutism”…. None of his flaws mattered (rape, sexual harassment, charity theft, insurrection, tax evasion, felony convictions, emoluments violations, Putin stoogery, blatant bigotry, pathological lying proclivities) because he simply looked the part.

Absolutely, this was all a backlash cause a black guy got the highest office in the land. The hate was bubbling up for over a decade and here we are.

This will take him only so far. Even a fool will eventually realise that he wants his leaders to fix problems no matter who or what caused them.

Exactly why it’s so sickening and why I am angry.

Can’t wait to see how the people who voted for him like their decision when we get further down the road.

Before the election @lebassett.bsky.social summed it up with one sentence on twitter. She said Trump represented something they like and was revenge against the things they hate. Sickening but still the best one line summation I’ve seen yet.

fearmongering and russian propaganda, that is what worked for him

Yep

I think a lot of people just don't want to vote for a woman. I guess that could be considered identity politics?

But, hasn’t that been the playbook since Reconstruction? I guess go with what you know…

Never seen a picture more honestly state "grandma and grammar hate the brown people"

Myth of “tax payer money”: Money is a scarce resource over which we must fight to the death in order to eat. Constitution: Our gov creates our currency, the 💵 www.splinter.com/the-dangerou...

They run on the promise of "beat down on these groups enough and THEN things will get better for you 🫵😇" Only it never does, it just makes things worse for everyone...but that still doesn't keep them from going "well you didn't hate them HARD ENOUGH, alright bring in the literal Nazism."

"He didn’t campaign on making life better for certain identity groups." Duh. He campaigned on making life better for all Americans, no matter the "identity group." You guys are never going to figure it out, huh?

Based on hateful propaganda he and his ilk created.

Bingo.

Another factor that impeded both Biden and Harris is how broken legacy corporate media has become. If you need to get your message out as a Dem, you won’t get that on their cable shows. You have to be way over the top and use social media. Grievance did that. Kitchen table policy not so much.

This long thread is a necessary companion piece here. bsky.app/profile/tobi...

Now it backfires on them when Trump sub-sixes their healthcare and SSI disability or raises their prices for items......

Hate is all around

Yes, like it’s normal and okay. It is not.

Social platforms like Facebook and Twitter/X caused this as well as Right Wing TV. Trump was just the vessel.

Fear and loathing in Mar-a-Lago.

And they’re all a bunch of fucking idiots

Wait till they kiss their insurance and homes.

Also: Government “debt” = Outstanding treasury bonds Our government prints the dollars everyone else uses to buy US bonds. Bonds are just an interest bearing savings account (risk free asset) at The Fed St Louis Fed

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Let’s show him #VA58 secure.actblue.com/donate/rodne...

Trump: I’m going to shovel our currency to the top of the economy. And leave my followers even more reliant on bank loans to fuel household consumption. ———- Orthodox Democrats: Hmmmm. We can’t let the masses know where money comes from.

Nice piece. Lot to think about.

When will these old people realize that it is immigrants who do the jobs that Americans don't want to do - Like taking care of old people!

Weaponized fear mongering.

The adoring gaze of an orange kool-aid guzzling cult member.

It is easier to run against than to run for something. Doing things that won't be "undone" requires putting together a super-majority so cycling won't occur. This requires a lot of compromise so 60+% can agree. Running against merely requires a thin majority to succeed.

‘Look what the libs did to us”

Trump is a toxic man…..we are a majority toxic country hell bent on promoting toxicity over love

Just look at those zombied out cult fucks.

The problem is he has no solutions to those grievances. It used to be when you had a disappointment that you look for alternative ways to achieve your goals.

Poorly understood grievances and potential causes if those grievances were even based in reality.

That is such a disturbing picture. Taking that much pleasure out of ruining someone else’s life is so sad.

MAGA are Nazis. Period.

This is why I can't be friends with people who voted for him. If your hate for people you don't know & who have not hurt you is stronger than your love for your children, our morals are too divergent. That is pure evil.

Good luck Texas !

Hate sells

What?! You're telling me the party of the Southern Strategy actually practices identity politics. Wow I'm shocked

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Great article. Thanks, @atrupar.com

Yes, because he never had any policies. If you asked any MAGA'S, they used to say they loved his policies, but he never had any.

Obviously

*people they hate and fear for no discernible reason

💯

wonder how here ancestors got here?

Anything to avoid difficult conversations about the Democratic Party. It’s easier and feels better to live in a fantasy world where everyone who voted against Kamala is a bad person

Now ain’t she sweet.

@atrupar.com you're the only person in the media that seems to understand what happened. Kamala talked about specific problems and how she would try to solve them. Trump talked about specific people being problems and how he was going to hurt them.

Idiots

‘Deport my home health aide’.

It works. We should do the same. A real enemy already exists. The wealthy corporate parasite class represents the biggest direct threat to human rights, prosperity, and ecological stability. If the electorate needs something to hate, we should give them something productive to hate.

MAGA Morons wanted this bs and deserve no sympathy for choosing autocracy and ignorance over the continuance of democracy. The Department of Education needs to be strengthened, because there clearly is an education decline based on these last 10 years. Educate your damn selves get un brainwashed

Trump revealed that there are still a bunch of racist, sexist, ignorant dumbasses in this country, and they will reap what they sow by choosing this monster to be re-elected instead of using common sense to further make the progress this nation desperately needs. The FAFO phase is underway.

This is so true. Most people don’t follow politics Trump, knew that if he tells same things three or four times, some people believe it. Social played a huge role where people just followed and liked because of the amount of likes Trump got on his social media. They’re called Sheep.

Basic human nature is territorial, same as animals

No one is teaching hate and disinformation like Fox. It's grade school for tyranny. Yes. We're going to resist. The left is not raising militias to storm anything.

Truth.

“I like your Christ; I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” - Mahatma Gandhi