Trump Rallies & Interviews Catch-All | Trump - “just stop talking about that”

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Found another reaction shot -- I kind of worry for the attendees getting sucked into this, at this point -- their reactions seem genuine (and justified) but I wouldn't love the internet trolls this could start to attract ...

 
StrangePackage said:
If you're a Trump supporter, he's very likely right
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I believe it was at one of his 2020 campaign rallies, but I'll never forget when he completely dropped the veil once and straight up told his audience that they're all dumb. Of course, being dumb, they just laughed. It was truly a remarkable moment.
 
StrangePackage said:
If you're a Trump supporter, he's very likely right
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I dunno. I know plenty of lawyers who support Trump and they are not idiots, and unfortunately I know some Harris supporters who are absolute morons. There are plenty of people on both sides of the aisle who have a reasonable basis for supporting one side or the other due to whatever issues are most dear to them, but tend to be tribal about sticking with a side regardless of obvious flaws in a particular candidate. There are others who see the flaws and simply do not care -- they are aching for that upper class tax cut, for instance (to paraphrase Krusty the Clown), or have deeply based and genuine opposition to abortion, say, or believe that LGBTQ rights are more important than anything else and they would rather have a corrupt leader who agrees with them.

I think it is counter-productive to assume or insist that everyone who disagrees with you politically is just stupid or mislead. Plenty of people are just as baffled by support of Kamala Harris as I am by support of Trump. I mean, sure, they're wrong about plenty of stuff, in my opinion, but that doesn't make them dumb. Frankly, in America, if you don't get the votes of stupid people, you are going to lose in a landslide. But the range of intelligence of people supporting one side or the other runs the entire spectrum on both sides of the divide. Yes, there is an increasing concentration of educated voters on the Democratic side of the equation currently, but that has ebbed and flowed over the years as educated voters generally tend to flee from populist politics. And there are PLENTY of really bright people without college degrees and plenty of abject idiots with college degrees.
 
nycfan said:
I dunno. I know plenty of lawyers who support Trump and they are not idiots, and unfortunately I know some Harris supporters who are absolute morons. There are plenty of people on both sides of the aisle who have a reasonable basis for supporting one side or the other due to whatever issues are most dear to them, but tend to be tribal about sticking with a side regardless of obvious flaws in a particular candidate. There are others who see the flaws and simply do not care -- they are aching for that upper class tax cut, for instance (to paraphrase Krusty the Clown), or have deeply based and genuine opposition to abortion, say, or believe that LGBTQ rights are more important than anything else and they would rather have a corrupt leader who agrees with them.

I think it is counter-productive to assume or insist that everyone who disagrees with you politically is just stupid or mislead. Plenty of people are just as baffled by support of Kamala Harris as I am by support of Trump. I mean, sure, they're wrong about plenty of stuff, in my opinion, but that doesn't make them dumb. Frankly, in America, if you don't get the votes of stupid people, you are going to lose in a landslide. But the range of intelligence of people supporting one side or the other runs the entire spectrum on both sides of the divide. Yes, there is an increasing concentration of educated voters on the Democratic side of the equation currently, but that has ebbed and flowed over the years as educated voters generally tend to flee from populist politics. And there are PLENTY of really bright people without college degrees and plenty of abject idiots with college degrees.
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If you believe Trump's lies, you're dumb. Period. And this is largely because the lies Trump tells are obvious and feeble. Shit fire, he expects people to believe he's not bald.

Smart people can vote for Trump because they understand the policies his administration will enact, but nobody who actually believes Trump is smart.
 
StrangePackage said:
If you believe Trump's lies, you're dumb. Period. And this is largely because the lies Trump tells are obvious and feeble. Shit fire, he expects people to believe he's not bald.

Smart people can vote for Trump because they understand the policies his administration will enact, but nobody who actually believes Trump is smart.
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The people who believe his lies think he’s smart.
 
nycfan said:
I dunno. I know plenty of lawyers who support Trump and they are not idiots, and unfortunately I know some Harris supporters who are absolute morons. There are plenty of people on both sides of the aisle who have a reasonable basis for supporting one side or the other due to whatever issues are most dear to them, but tend to be tribal about sticking with a side regardless of obvious flaws in a particular candidate. There are others who see the flaws and simply do not care -- they are aching for that upper class tax cut, for instance (to paraphrase Krusty the Clown), or have deeply based and genuine opposition to abortion, say, or believe that LGBTQ rights are more important than anything else and they would rather have a corrupt leader who agrees with them.

I think it is counter-productive to assume or insist that everyone who disagrees with you politically is just stupid or mislead. Plenty of people are just as baffled by support of Kamala Harris as I am by support of Trump. I mean, sure, they're wrong about plenty of stuff, in my opinion, but that doesn't make them dumb. Frankly, in America, if you don't get the votes of stupid people, you are going to lose in a landslide. But the range of intelligence of people supporting one side or the other runs the entire spectrum on both sides of the divide. Yes, there is an increasing concentration of educated voters on the Democratic side of the equation currently, but that has ebbed and flowed over the years as educated voters generally tend to flee from populist politics. And there are PLENTY of really bright people without college degrees and plenty of abject idiots with college degrees.
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Yes and yes. I, too, know many very smart lawyers voting for Trump.

Like most of us, they are tribal voters who see the world through their church, friends, childhood psychology, etc. There aren't too many @CFordUNC's out there who cross over after those attitudes are set.
 
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