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Reporters, I beg you: When voters claim they have doubts about Trump’s personality but support “his policies,” ask one simple question:
Which policies?
The stammering will be more interesting than anything they have to say.
this post was submitted on 22 Jan 2024
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They support his stance on immigration, abortion, the war on Christmas/Christians, wokeness, communism, trans people, antifa, and whatever other bogeymen they've heard about on Fox or OANN. They don't care about actual policy, they just care that he's "their guy."
To be fair, he has a tough stance on immigration, and he's a good bet to beat the liberals if you feel strongly against the open border policy the left is espousing. There's plenty of other woke nonsense that could inspire someone to oppose the libs at all costs.
I'm not a Trumper; I'm a moderate liberal that's tired of losing because of idiotic identity politics and the righteous brigading that alienates anyone who doesn't fall in lockstep.
The MAGA crew are all talking about woke identity politics issues because those are the ones conservative media have decided to play up as potential wedge issues.
Dem politicians don't want to have to spend their time defending the humanity of trans kids. Also, the electorate as a whole seems not to care that much about trans issues one way or the other.
Conservative media seems to be making the bet that they can slice off pieces of the democratic coalition (example: religiously conservative POC) by making it seem like these are huge issues that define the war for the soul of the country.
I guess I'd agree the correct path isn't diving further into issues like that and instead focusing on economic issues, if that's your point. But Dems have generally been doing a pretty good job of that already?