This is a picture of a magnet that was being sold at Strand's Book Store in New York City a few years ago. No, I did not buy it, but I liked it and took a picture, which I am sharing here now.
Already, just a couple of weeks and change since Election Day, some people who voted for Trump are having some measure of buyer's remorse.
This, frankly, was predictable enough. After all, many - I would go so far as to say the vast majority of Trump voters, unknowingly were voting against their own best interests. And it always felt like merely a matter of time before they inevitably would begin to regret it.
Below is a video illustrating some specific examples. There are people who take exception to Trump's pretty clearly stated intention of doing away with the Affordable Care Act, of finally repealing it. Of course, the fact that Trump and the Republicans back during Trump's first term desperately tried to kill it back then apparently was not enough of a signal that he would obviously go ahead and do the same thing this time around. We are hearing stories now, in 2024, that we first heard well over a decade ago, about how many of these people are all in favor of Trump and the Republicans getting rid of "Obamacare," but paradoxically, being in favor of the "Affordable Healthcare Act." They apparently did not realize that the Affordable Healthcare Act and Obamacare are one and the same thing, despite now having had over a decade to discover this simple truth.
Now, some of them are really worried that they contributed to enabling Trump and his party - let's be serious here for a moment, because the Republicans are now really the Trump party - a free ticket to do what they have long wanted to do. The Affordable Healthcare Act, also known as Obamacare, has long been on the chopping block. It was one of the prime things on their itinerary. And it sure appears that they have a good likelihood of succeeding in what they did not manage to do away with during Trump's first term. This time around, it does not appear that the Republicans will have someone like Senator John McCain who actually could stand up for what is best for the country and stand up to Trump. The theme in the GOP these days seems to be about bootlicking and falling in line with the official agenda, as set by Trump and the White House team that he is still assembling.
It seems that they finally awoke to this threat now, well after the fact. They had fully nine years now since Trump first announced his presidency to get acquainted with the issues and what Trump's actual stance on them were. The repeal of Obamacare, or the Affordable Healthcare Act as it is also known, was not exactly a secret. How is it possibly that they did not realize the danger that Trump and the Republicans posed to something which many of his supporters apparently rely on, and which will have a severe impact on their quality of life, until the days after they voted for him to be president (most of them surely for the third consecutive time).
Others are now suddenly expressing their outrage that Trump seems to be no improvement on the issue of support for Israel. Many Muslims were understandably angry that Biden (and Kamala Harris, obviously) were so supportive of Israel during this recent war. But did they really think that Trump would improve matters on this issue? Again, Trump never made a secret about his unconditional and unwavering support for Israel. The fact that Benjamin Netanyahu clearly wanted Trump to win apparently was not enough of a red flag to prevent them from voting for Trump.
Seriously?
I mean, really, I want to have sympathy and not be overly harsh....but I mean, seriously! How freaking stubborn or stupid do you have to be?
It reminds me a lot - and I mean a lot - of the 2004 election, now over twenty years ago. Back then, also, polls showed that Americans were collectively reluctant to admit that they had made a mistake putting George W. Bush in the White House the first time. His support never really dipped down to the point where the chances of him failing to reach the White House for a second term began to feel like a real possibility. Except, of course, for some frankly delusional people on the left, which is another matter that I will perhaps get into some other time, and which is almost equally as frustrating, frankly.
Even from the right, Trump supporters are not particularly happy about some of what Trump has been doing. Look at the link to the article below by David McAfee, about how some Trump supporters are taking exception to one Trump cabinet pick who advocated for wearing masks and vaccines during the coronavirus pandemic. Of course, this just shows some measure of disaffection - and likely mildly at that - towards Trump, and not regret for having voted to put him in power. Still, it does show that the man is not really what so many of his supporters imagine him to be.
Frankly, if things go as badly under his leadership as I believe that they will, Americans will suffer. I feel bad for the people who opposed him and tried to warn against giving him power again. Some saw a man who once suggested that parts of the Constitution might need to be cancelled, who once tried to get the presidential election of 2020 postponed, and who has threatened to focus on revenge during his second term and even threatened to use our own armed forces in actions on our streets against American citizens, and they tried to warn everybody else that the threat was real. Those are the people I feel bad for now.
As for those people who supported Trump for the past nine years, and who voted for him yet again this time around, despite all of these serious red flags and warnings?
Yeah, not so much sympathy this time around. Maybe they were fooled the first time around, and that might be excusable. But as Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain (nobody seems sure on just who precisely said it) once said: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
'Booo!' Trump fans say they are 'disheartened' after he gives 'slap in the face to MAGA' David McAfee November 23, 2024 3:
'Booo!' Trump fans say they are 'disheartened' after he gives 'slap in the face to MAGA' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-fans-upset-slap-surgeon/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGwyDlleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHQi7tyHS9yTzRO7CwqW-0YmgcEdk8bPX1zYruE8MWhXoSiXB-7LxLglRJQ_aem_sarL-RvHPdx26mbe-fsAZQ
Trump Voters Realize They Made A Huge Mistake
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