It fits, as I believe that Jackson is Trump's favorite president. And his presidency was also a shitshow - he claimed that the 1824 election was stolen from him in a "corrupt bargain" between John Quincy Adams & Henry Clay, and then got revenge by beating Adams in a landslide four years later. He also had a powerful appeal to uneducated backwoodsmen (who nearly trashed the White House at his inaugural), his war against Clay's Second National Bank was popular enough to help him win a second term, as he framed it as a struggle between Eastern elites and "the common man", and it was also an economic disaster, leading to a stock market crash and depression starting in 1837 (since it started after he left office he never got any blame for it, but instead it was his successor Martin Van Buren who paid the price).
No doubt the Trumper half will, I think the other half will be rightly horrified. But of course that half doesn't have any power at any level of the federal government, so there's nothing they can do to stop it. And all of those Latinos and Arab-Americans and others who voted for him (or just sat out the election and didn't vote for Harris) are going to be shocked when the Trumpers come for them too. But I doubt they'll get any sympathy, even from Harris voters.
I’m curious about how they’ll blame Ds for these totally foreseeable consequences of the policies they voted for.
I could seriously see somebody like JD Vance actually trying to get that wording removed, or changed in some way. I wouldn't put anything past these people. They now have total control of the government with no guardrails at all. It's going to be open season on everything and everyone they hate and fear.
It’s why I post what I post. I’m going to be wrong about a few things, but in the grand scheme the consequences are right in our collective faces, and it should be documented time after time after time, because when it all starts to unravel there’re no reasons to placate the intellectually unserious and completely predictable right-winger responses.
Same way they blamed Biden for everything that happened in 2020 and didn’t blame/associate Trump with any of it.
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If social media is to be believed (it's always an extreme version of the truth) they will get absolutely zero sympathy.
Yep. This is precisely why I am not going to be bummed if the Democrats don’t flip the House. In many ways, it’s best if they don’t. Voters need to feel the full weight of the consequences (elections have consequences!!!) of the policy implications of their votes. I’m not saying that those policy implications won’t negatively impact all of us to varying degrees, but I think that the negative impact will disproportionately affect the median Trump voter significantly more so than the median Harris voter.
Yep. This has been my thinking as well since the election. If this is what 51% of the country really wants, then give it to them. I also hope the Democrats don't take the House (although coming really close would be nice). Just let Trump & Company do what they want and see what happens. I think it will be a disaster for the economy and country in general, but as liberals can't stop it anyway just let them control the government. Of course they'll still try to blame Democrats, but it didn't work in 2017 and 2018 when they had control of all three branches and the Democrats gained 40 House seats in 2018 and picked up some governorships as well. Most Americans voted for this, so let them have it and face the consequences.
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My instinct is to agree but I am afraid of the soybean farmer example. When rural white people are impacted the administration will pay them off. When we lose our white collar jobs, nobody will care.
They think all the people on welfare will do those jobs. They are convinced our cities are just filled with people getting rich on government assistance and they want those welfare frauds to be put to work. In other words, they are clueless.
