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Tucker Carlson apologizes for 'misleading' people on Trump: 'We're implicated in this for sure' (www.nbcnews.com)
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[–] [S] 18 points 6 months ago (4 children)

What you're missing here is that people treat politics as sports ball when they fail to connect it to their daily lives. As the economic situation in the US continues to decline, Trump supporters will start having problems paying their bills and making ends meet just like everyone else. They will turn on him, and it will get ugly. What Carlson is most likely doing here is setting himself up as an alternative, and he'll harness that anger for his own purposes.

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    I read a story maybe 2 months ago where farmers in Idaho had everyone they hired on their farm deported from an ICE raid. Without cheap labor, they were forced to sell their farm. The farm owners said they realized it was trumps policies that did this.

    There was a different story involving a family owned lumbermill. It had been family run for over a century. It wasn't ICE raids, but some other new policy trump enacted.

    In both cases, they were trump voters. Full on maga. They admitted it was trumps fault. They also said they'd vote for him again.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Like that braniac Argentine that can't pay her bills and plans on voting Milei. I had a conversation today with a client who is extremely naïve, poor, and entitled, but one thing we agree, all these people on the Hill and in positions of influence promoting them are probably drugged out of the galaxy.

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