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Trump voters deserve to be demeaned.
And this is why there are so many Trump voters.
This is the dumbest thing I’ve seen in a minute.
Dumb? Possibly. Do you think you gain or lose voters by calling much of America deplorable? How about, calling them racist? Nazis? Do any of those things attract people to your side of the fence?
Calling them out for what they are has benefits. Deplorables, ignoramuses, tards, rednecks, racists, fascists, xenophobes… it causes them to double down and embrace those terms, which in turn causes them to increasingly say the quiet parts out loud. This means that those of us woke generations tasked with mopping up the wasteland the boomers created, and shepherding the planet through collapse, can identify and ignore these imbeciles. It’s important; deitifying Trump is nothing short of a mental disorder.
The democrats didn’t need the deplorable racist Nazis to win the election last time.