What, again? I’m getting tired of all this winning. 
Everyone is leaving Trump other than white guys without a college education according to the polling.
And I still have hope for him losing a chunk of them before this is over.
Thomas Frank to the rescue!
(Though it ultimately feels to me like he’s grasping at straws here.)
It’s a typical quietly brutal Frank piece. He didn’t say “But Biden is an honourable man…” but he came close.
Little Donnie is very scared.
This is part of it, and it has some truth to it.
“ Schaitberger went on to say this about the candidate: “He is who he is. He’s real. He’s genuine. He’s a respectful person, and he’s a decent person, and he has great empathy and concern. Particularly for those who have experienced heartache or difficulties or tragedies.” A group, you might say, that ultimately encompasses all of us.”
And his long term union & working class support.
But another piece of the white non college educated guys possibly coming over is frankly that Trump is looking like a loser - and that makes all his other faults and his obvious incompetence that much less forgivable to them.
Yes. The orange makeup visible on his open collar during that after-party walk of shame, and the flopping tie… It’s like this emperor’s get-up is finally crumbling away, exposing for (nearly) all the pathetic loser underneath. A working-class hero was something for him to be, but it’s becoming too obvious that he never thought of the 99% as anything more than fucking peasants, as far as he can see.
If you’re whole gig is predicated on punching down - don’t be surprised when your followers turn on you the second you look weak. You taught them well.
I hear Donnie is firing Ivanka and has put out a casting call for a younger daughter.
You’re going to see a lot of leaning into “They’re going to destroy Christianity” in the upcoming months:
I will tell you right now, this does not come from Trump, and for many who make these statements, it’s not a cynical ploy.
They believe this. They honestly believe that there will be round-ups where armed people will come to churches and demand people renounce their faith, and torture and murder those who don’t. They train their kids how to resist, drill it into them that they need to be prepared to die for their faith. Active shooter drills? Hardcore Evangelical churches have been doing those far longer than schools.
Some of those kids are grown up, now. Some have escaped, others terrorize the next generation and prepare for the enemy to come.
It’s not even necessarily anti-Islamic. Just some nebulous “people”, possibly even from the government, maybe soldiers, are going to start killing people who believe in Jesus.
I know, because I have seen it. I wasn’t steeped in it, didn’t suffer the level of abuse, but one or two guest pastors at the Youth Group I was in said enough to give a peek inside this way of thinking.
That’s the demographic they’re looking to tap into. They know they’ve lost the moderates, but these guys… tell them Biden’s their worst nightmare, the guy who’s going to send the soldiers to wipe out their children, and they will be prepared to react.
This, too is a form of stochastic terrorism. The phrasing she uses here is deliberate. It’s speaking to that group specifically. Telling them to get ready.
Brace yourself, America. They’re trying to open Pandora’s Box as wide as it will go.
Which, speaking as a Christian looking at America from abroad, is absurd. Nothing and no one in America is working to “destroy Christianity” as much as the religious right, who made their devil’s bargain with the Republican party, and led the US Evangelicals into abandoning everything Christ taught, worshiping Mammon of the Wall Street and Moloch of guns, and bowing down before their orange anti-Christ who’s embodying every deadly sin.
He looked weak because nobody attended his stupid fucking racist rally in Oklahoma, not because he put all his energy into the protests or pandemic or economic collapse. So they’re right to turn on him, if a little late in the game.
It looks to me that they not only believe it - they yearn for it to happen.
It’s more that they see it is inevitable. Like a seismologist living in PNW with really well rehearsed earthquake plans. You may not know when it’s going to hit, but it’s going to and it’s going to be bad.
I am not saying that they’re right. But to them the data is as clear on this as it is to any seismologist that the PNW is waiting on a massive quake.
There is a subset that want to bring it on, but for most it’s more like being prepared for a massive disaster they can’t prevent.
(PNW = Pacific North West?)
That analogy doesn’t really work for me, but I see what you mean.
That’s pretty messed up.
