His appeal is the same appeal that takes each of us in at some point; he offers easy answers to complicated problems. It’s tempting to believe that only the profoundly stupid will fall for this, but when a problem is outside your knowledge or experience and someone confidently announces they have a solution its pretty easy to let yourself stop thinking any further.
Also, there are a ton of racists and xenophobes out there who already believe they have the easy answers and like the confirmation of having them parroted back at them.
His appeal is the same appeal that takes each of us in at some point; he offers easy answers to complicated problems.
This is the key. And yes we’ve all been there. But, normally you grow out of it once you pass teenage angst and college year insecurities.
Remember that feeling when, as a little kid, your parents said that you could eat all the candy you wanted, with no limits at all, and you were too fucking stupid to realize how bad that was for you? It’s like that.
Lol this is so stupid. His “appeal” is ignorance, racism and misogyny? jesus christ
Okay, then what’s his appeal? Being a conman? A rapist, a fraud, a habitual liar, unbelievably vain, a pedophile, a barely literate narcissist?
Being a traitor, a useful idiot, a seditionist coup-plotter, an election stealer (failed)?
His appeal is the same as Bernie’s was. While most oligarchy controlled politicians refuse to recognize how shitty things are, Bernie and Trump got up and said what everyone who lives in the real world knows to be true: shit’s fucked up. The difference was that Bernie recognized it’s the oligarchy (including Trump, even though he’s kinda his own oligarchy) that’s fucking things up, while Trump just let the racists and misogynists and bigots choose whoever they wanted to blame and agreed with them. After all, he couldn’t point the finger at himself (probably literally, since he’s a narcissist his brain won’t let him).
Basically he recognizes that their lives are shit, and gives them license to openly blame whoever they want to blame. Thanks to decades of Republican bullshit, they tend to want to blame anyone who’s not a white Christian.
Do you guys not know what “appeal” means?? He is all of those things at his core, but do you think 50% of voters are like “I LOVE THAT HES RACIST!! I LOVE THAT HE LIES ALL THE TIME”. Your viewpoint is ignorant and dangerous.
Lol, then what are they saying?
We know they aren’t literally saying those words, but that’s because they do not think they are racist.
They think it’s okay to discriminate against someone because of their skin color or nationality. It’s their right.
They think it’s alright to impose their beliefs on others without middle ground. It’s my god’s word.
They think there’s nothing wrong with a little sexual abuse and misconduct. Happens all the time, get over it.
They think those things, and they are of course wrong. So while they don’t use the words you describe in your comment, in actuality, that is indeed what they are saying.
Even if everything you said is true - that’s still not his appeal to his base. Those are things that they are comfortable writing off due to his actual appeal. His actual appeal is something that you and most commenters on reddit would never verbalize because you’d rather stick to your simplistic worldview that every single trump voter is a racist, misogynist, etc.
So whyn’cha hip us to his magical appeal then. We’re all waiting.
Feel free to Google “what do people like about Donald Trump”. Nothing I say will change your mind about half the country being racist misogynists and nothing more. Just living villainous caricatures.
what do people like about Donald Trump
The Mass Psychology of Trumpism
To summarize the first search result, the answer is christo-fascism. Trump has used Christianity to make Americans swallow fascism. A lot of them are also racists and misogynists.
Another big part is that he let’s you believe your failures aren’t your fault. Someone else sabotaged you, so you don’t have to commit the hard work of fixing yourself.
Gaslighting 😱
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That and a media echo chamber of lies.
Turns out brainwashing people and telling them it’s “news” is a really effective strategy.
Who knew??
Besides Göebbels and Murdoch. And Bernays.
I think liking Trump must be like people who are into BDSM (I realize not everyone shares my opinion here), where it seems to be that you actually need therapy but instead decide to deliberately have someone hurt you all the time instead as a form of passive self injury.
I realize not everyone shares my opinion here
Your opinion is just wrong.
