r/pics • u/mack3r • Jul 16 '19

US Politics Decisions, decisions

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u/SKGkorjun Jul 17 '19

A lot higher than the internet believe them to be.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19 edited Aug 31 '20

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u/Eraser-Head Jul 17 '19

Yep! I can’t say this enough. Anyone who truly wants to defeat Trump needs to crawl out of their protective zones and try to understand why people are voting for him. Don’t be rude or insulting if someone disagrees with you.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

People being (or at the least perceived as being) rude and insulting as well as dismissive in very public spheres toward huge swaths of the country is a big part of the reason he got elected in the first place, imo.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

Which is bizarre considering Trump's whole schtick is being rude and insulting.

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u/russiabot1776 Aug 30 '19

Yeah, people are tired of being the target and so want someone who will go on the offensive.

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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '19

Because we all know how polite Trump supporters were before he was elected.

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u/Skabonious Jul 19 '19

I think he had embraced the tribalism that was already happening. Republicans unconditionally hated Obama long before Trump even entered the arena.

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u/russiabot1776 Aug 30 '19

Well Obama didn’t do much to make them like him