Except he became chancellor thanks to Socialdemocrats, NSDAP had like 15-20% of votes and fading.
Edit: they had ~37% I’m bad at citing from top of my head.
The point is SPD wanted to make coalition with KPD but KPD was controlled by Stalin and he forbidden it. So they were negotiating with Hitler. He demanded to be chancellor and they agreed.
That is a wild interpretation of history.
Seriously read about it. It’s a fascinating story.
Just a thought.
Maybe we shouldn’t trust our futures to dumbfucks that can get played by the most obvious conman in history 3 times back to back to back.
Maybe every fucking person that isn’t a dumbfuck treasonous conservative should show up to vote in 26/28/forever. It’s pretty goddamn clear we can’t trust conservatives with our nation’s wellbeing.
It’s a shame there would be no enthusiasm for it from the left, but we’d do a lot of good by direnfranchiseing as many rural whites as possible.
Say “We need to secure out elections, that’s why only major metropolitan centers can have polling location - so we can guarantee a secure and accurate count.”
And there should be no enthusiasm. Any means to disenfranchise large swaths of people can be turned around and used on yourself.
You’re right if we started trying to disenfranchise republican voters, huge chunks of democratic voters would be disenfranchised in retaliation.
Luckily we’re not fighting Republicans so our voters are safe and the voting rights act is stronger then ever. Yes, absolutely the thing I am most grateful for is how we have reframed from attacking republicans because black representation in the south is too precious to risk.
But yet he will still vote R next election.
I’d bet my life savings on it…
P.S. Let’s be real. The way people received and processed info in the 1930s and 40s was completely different. I am somewhat sympathetic to the idea that a large percentage of German’s who supported Hitler didn’t have any idea what Hitler or the Nazi Party was really up to. No such excuse exists for the simpletons who couldn’t figure out who Trump and many other GOPedos really are between 2015 and 2024.
Am I wrong for simply not giving a shit?
I don’t care if you feel manipulated by Trump. Manipulated by an establishment Democrat or Republican? Sure, I guess I can give people a pass for that. Trump, though?
Nah, you can take your regret and carve it into a bullet before finding some cops to suicide on.
They got tricked by the dumbest most obvious zero carisma con man.
I don’t get why people even like Trump. His personality is so off putting. There is nothing likeable about him
They are the same type of trash humans. They relate to trump because they are the same and believe that they should be wealthy and unaccountable. They are pro rape, pro pedophilia, pro racism, pro genocide, pro mysoginist, cuck losers. they believe in the colonialist heirachy that places white men(simply for existing) above the rest of the racialized and gender casted working class. They don’t understand that enforcing this system oppresses them too because they are not educated and that’s by design. They act as the enforcers, policing those who don’t conform to the system that benefits only the capitalist class. A lot of these toxic fascist right wing white males are handed six figure jobs right out of high school. These types of jobs are unionized and seem to hire their friends and family while gatekeeping and hazing minorities out. enter the police force, union construction, fire department, ice, prisons corrections ect… without a college degree and be making six figures, with retirement and full benefits almost immediately. These unions always seem to be the only unions not under constant attack. These jobs are dominated by white men who then think it’s easy to survive in this rigged game and listen to media funded by the capitalist class telling them to be good flying monkeys punch down because they’re the real victims. They love this system they’re getting poorer but they get to be sadistic, self righteous and superior to others Meanwhile any job dominated by women or minorities is underpaid and requires years of expensive schooling. This system is by design.
Source: 20 years in construction, Dad was Cop
There is a certain type of person who is convinced he’s honest. Yet, when you ask them an example of him being honest, it’s Trump being a total asshole to someone. They want to be able to get away with treating people like shit the way he does. And they want to be free of the politeness that governs society.
He’s a celebrity and these people have monkey brains that can’t differentiate between a close personal friend and someone eho appears frequently on their tv.
Election night 2016 was the Wizard of Oz curtain reveal moment for me.
I knew stupid people existed, but that night made it clear how stupid and how many there were in this country.
Terminal.
They didn’t get tricked.
He promised them brutality and he delivered on that promise.
I disagree. The one thing he’s good at is conning people with his voice. It’s his superpower. It doesn’t work on everyone, it works on me sometimes. It’s hard to admit, but it’s true.
It’s a thing a lot of narcissists are good at. I’m curious how the numbers break down with people’s resistance to his voice vs general narcissists. I generally assume my immunity comes from my having had a narcissistic father and having bad mental reactions whenever someone starts the narcissist charm. Others are just immune, and then there’s folks like you who feel it but can resist it.
And I should clarify it’s not magic or anything, the personality disorder just takes advantage of how our social brains are wired, it’s not even the only personality disorder to do that.
It’s not just the people who are fooled by him or beholden to him. I would say there is also something wrong with the people who are swayed by but also able to “resist” his sickening anti-charisma. Healthy people are completely immune. Even the people who supported him only until shortly after he was first took office in 2017 should be relegated to the category of “untrustworthy”.
Honestly, I think the people who fall for him have emotional safety issues. He tries to soothe with his voice and say everything is going to be alright. He’ll lie his ass off in a general way, so you can give him a pass if it turns out wrong. I think that’s why a huge percentage of his base are alcoholics, they just want everything to be okay.
I honestly crave not having to know this shit about our president who is/has:
- taken us into a shitty, shitty war
- killed middle school chidlren
- robbing the country of our history and our money
- treating immigrants like shit and sometimes killing them
- treating US citizens like shit and sometimes killing them
- installing people who are equally evil
- fucking up our elections so he and his fellow republicans can cheat
I’m tired boss
John Coffey could be the poster child for the last decade of US politics.
Previous decades, too, it’s just accelerated now.
That’s a really good analogy. Him and Jesus, tbh. All religions base their savior on this archetype.
Edit: The more I think about this, the more I understand it. He sows fear with fox news and harassing brown people, and then takes on the savior, Jesus mode in his speeches and rallies. He’s like the Old Testament god, follow the rules or bad things happen. But if you’re good, you’ll have riches and the kingdom will be yours.
Edit 2, this is breaking my brain: Trump takes on the Jesus character, which is why he had no problem showing himself as Jesus. But underneath the surface, the Old Testament is playing out in all of it’s hate, carnage and glory. I can see his handlers saying, “Now remember, you’re Jesus. Be loving to your people and say nice things and be kind to them. You can hate on anyone else though, that’s fine. You don’t have to be like Jesus there.”
Steve Jobs had a similar ability to manipulate. He used it to sell electronics. Trump uses it to bomb brown people, tank an economy, kill all progress, and drive up the costs of said electronics.
It’s not a super power. It’s not even all that rare. It’s just mental illness being celebrated because he’s portrayed as rich. Rich people aren’t crazy. They’re colorful.
Both evil men. When I call it a superpower, I mean it more as a nuclear bomb.
I hope this is sarcasm. His voice is terrible. He couldn’t be less charismatic.
“But you can’t be president more than three times anyway so I am still going to vote for him”
How Hitler and Trump were able to brainwash millions was a mixture of desperation and hatred. People were desperate for more money and better quality of life and these guys promised them those things. They also pushed a narrative that all the problems were caused by marginalized groups. People already hated those groups for some reason and were eager to believe these lies
yep. right wing white trash IS the most easily manipulated group of people
Decades of erosion of public education ensures that they’re not media savvy and don’t have critical thinking skills. Mix in some disinformation (Fox “News”) and fear of the other, now you’ve got a jelly-brained MAGA moron.
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If moron Republicans were capable of learning the Republican party would have ceased to exist after Bush’s two illegal wars, torture and crashing the economy.
Or Trump’s stealing, raping, crashing the economy and mismanagement of a pandemic and trying TO OVERTHROW THE FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
…
These people do not learn, they are not serious and trying to “reach them” is a waste of time.
I know in your liberal heart you want to BELIEVE they have learned now and suddenly won’t be massive racists assholes… Don’t fall for it again…
Our efforts need to be on reaching people that DO NOT VOTE and have abandoned the system completely, we need to get to them that democracy is an active process and you need to engage to keep it going.
I give ZERO shits and have ZERO compassion left for Trump voters.
If they want back into society they need to actually DO SOMETHING about the mess they have caused, not just whine how now suddenly they are sorry…
Add to that over half a century of “Trickle Down Economics” being promised to trickle down to us ANY DAY NOW. It was a lie then, it’s a lie now, and Republicans are it up and everyone else said please no, and here we are still suffering under the impacts of those awful decisions. Hell, MOST of the inflation and low pay and wealth inequality and loss of retirement pensions and loss of nearly everything good we had is due to fucking Reagan and all the Republicans that voted for this.
Also an entire history of disgusting racism and abuse of power.
We would probably be in some amazing utopia right now we’re it not for Republicans.
If moron Republicans were capable of learning the Republican party would have ceased to exist after Bush
So much of the Bush Era Republican Party is just infested into the Democrats now.
I give ZERO shits and have ZERO compassion left for Trump voters.
This is why the last time I ever spoke to my mother was the day before his inauguration. At this point, it’s her fault that he causes harm.
He was a fucking liar and conman when you voted for him, you dipshit.
But this time he promised!
wow. some of you left wing extremists should have told him or something. jeez.
I don’t have any sympathy for a voter dumb enough and conservative enough to vote for Trump three times in a row.
I don’t have sympathy necessarily, but I’m always glad to see the cracks start showing
I agree, no sympathy for chudservatives
I don’t think it’s a question of sympathy. This article is intended to convince people that Trump Voters Are Winnable. We get this every two years as we approach campaign season. And then we get a bunch of Jim Webb types saying they’re the only candidates who can win because they are Democrats who appeal to Republicans.
Harris fell for it in 2024, spending her whole final three months touring alongside Liz Cheney. Jeff Flake spoke at the DNC hoping to win over ex-Trumpies. The Lincoln Project promised to flip a bunch of conservatives on behalf of Democrats, to no noticeable effect.
The Winnable Republican is a con that gets run on Democrat primary voters every two years
I’ve been hearing this on NPR as well…several pieces all with this outline, about how there are just not enough democrats alone so we need candidates that can appeal to disenfranchised Trump voters.
I’d say I’m surprised that they don’t know better than to just play into conservatives hands like this…but trump has taught me a LOT about how little most democrats have in common with the left. They really seam to see the actual left as more of a threat than literal fascists…
I think we should have sympathy. Better late than never, and nothing will ever change if people aren’t allowed to learn and grow.
MAGA is a community, and a lot of MAGAtards are only there for the community. If progressives aren’t willing to accept personal growth, there is no reason for them to grow.
Progressives need to take the high road and welcome the MAGAts who have finally seen the light.
An eye for an eye only creates blindness. Someone needs to stop the cycle.
Nope, sorry. The time for that was 2015 - 2017, or at the absolute very least after the attempted coup and stolen election lies. No sympathy at all now, It’s scorched earth. These people deserve reeducation camps where we try to deprogram them and they do hard labor for the glory of an egalitarian, enlightened U.S.
Yeah, people need to remember that most of the maga base are from the working class. They’re not all southern gentry descendants of slave owners living comfortably on their family’s generational wealth while using their social privilege to actively make life worse for everyone else. Those are just the leaders of the movement, but they wouldn’t get very far without the support of roughly half of the working class.
The entire reason those working class people were able to be radicalized in the first place were a combination of the following: ignorance and shitty education; economic hardship and marginalization; distrust of the government and the elites; misplaced fear and rage that was actively stoked by those in power and directed towards political targets to create a sense of “us vs. them”; and overall just years of destitution and discontentment that the corrupt fascists took advantage of to radicalize these people.
Most of those things are deeply working-class issues that many of us face; it’s just the conclusions that they were resultantly radicalized towards that were misguided. Many of them are in the cult too deep and will never let go of it, never admit they were wrong. The rest have the potential, though, if they’re shown the way forward, and a few million less of them and a few million more of us might ultimately make all the difference.
This whole notion of “chase away anyone who remotely resembles a conservative without even asking what their beliefs and opinions really are, what they struggle with and what’s important to them, etc.” has always been a losing strategy. Yet people have attacked me as if I’m defending conservatives whenever I point out that many of these people might actually fall on our side of the fence if we stop pushing them onto the other.
Well said. Also, if you get too picky about your allies, you might never win the war.
I know what you’re saying is probably the best course of action. But they are so disingenuous I just cannot trust them. Their entire basis of voting for him was out of selfishness and hate.
If I were Brad Pitt at the end of Seven, I would absolutely pull that trigger. I’m sorry.
Sympathy for what though? He’s not a victim, so what is there to sympathiz about?
Did he actually learn anything or is he just going to vote for the next fascist with an R next to their name?
It’s very likely that they don’t learn what they aren’t thaught. You don’t teach anything if there is no contact, and moments like this are opportunities for contact.
Yesyes, I get it, it’s not your job to teach them. The issue is though that nobody else will, except of course propagandists on the right who are happy to teach them.
Here’s the thing though the entire internet is available for them to learn things themselves. It shouldn’t be our job to teach them anything.
I 100% agree. And no, it shouldn’t be our job. But unfortunately, it kinda is.
I mostly grew up in a right wing/conservative environment. The only reason why I’m not a right winger is because I always had a curiosity for different ideas and ways of thinking and wanted to actually understand people’s views.
Eventually, as frustrating as it was, I had to come to terms that many people don’t share that curiosity. Most people are focused on other things and only seem to kind of adopt concepts they are told, often without really thinking about it.
And more often than not, it’s right wingers telling them stuff and it’s right wing stuff that sticks, as right wing stuff is quite simple and easily digestable (simple concepts, clear enemy, simple problems and simple solutions). However, oftentimes, it does not stick very hard and the only reason why it sticks is because they are simply never challenged. In a lot of cases, it slowly falls apart if you challenge them, as long as you don’t give them an easy excuse to dismiss you.
But unfortunately, this is typically not a fast process. So yeah, it is very frustrating, especially because people have access to all the knowledge they need.
But the hard reality is that chances are they will sooner go down a crazy right wing conspiracy rabit whole. In order for them to move towards the left just by themselves, they would need to throw their entire understanding of virtually everything they know out the window, and by that point, the right is more comfortable because you can just build your world however you want.
If we want the world to be a better place than it absolutely is our job. Conservatives see it as a job to brainwash and create propaganda.
We should see it as a job to bring these people back from the edge, and to reintegrate them with society. Ignoring them, and blaming them, will continue to make the problem worse.
When an entire segment of the population that are maga nutso Christian nationalist want me to not even exist, no it’s not my job. It’s not my job at all to educate fully formed adult humans who have the breath of all information of the entire world at their fingertips but they refuse to expand their minds and use it.
The cycle will continue then, and nothing will ever get better. You can’t hope for things to get better without also putting the work forward to make those changes.
You want them to think you should exist? Then emotionally appeal to them and remind them that you’re a person. This only really works on the ones you know anyways, but if no one ever steps up to teach them, then you can’t expect them to ever change.
The sentiment of your post is commendable, but I’m skeptical that any magats are “finally seeing the light”. They’ve been fully supportive of bigotry and facsism for a decade now. I’m relieved that support for trump is beginning to dwindle, but it’s not because those supporters are now becoming more progressive. Its because their gas prices have gone up. They will blindly continue to vote red in the future.
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How’d that work out with the Confederacy? Did turning the other cheek teach them the error of their ways? Or did it just create a society that makes excuses to justify its racist “heritage”?
You are explicitly describing a situation where the people didn’t actually change at all. If you remember the whole Reconstruction period it was basically white Southerners refusing to change and waiting the north out. As soon as the north gave up they quickly undid as much as possible.
Fucking miles different than someone actually chaning their mind or regretting their past actions. The south did neither
My point is, they won’t regret anything. A few might…for a minute. And then they’ll go right back to voting whichever way Fox News and Steve Bannon tell them to. All the same people who are currently pulling their strings right now, will just wait a little while and then start doing it all over again, once the heat is off.
Which makes it exactly the same as what happened after the last civil war…which you described quite well. Trust me…that’s exactly how it will play out again, unless some serious changes are made to US society.
People do change, but you have to let it.
Honestly the view of its impossible for people to change is just as stubborn as most conservativism. If we reject the possibility for people to change how do we fix any of this? Do we need to kill about 50% of the population?
This idea of pushing away those that come to their senses only helps the conservatives achieve their goals by forcing them back to their old views.
It’s odd to me that conservative media celebrates converts and uses that to feed their propaganda machine which then increases the “converts”. But then we’re going to go out of our way to help them retain people by pushing them away when they start to doubt the propaganda.
You say “people change”. But, they don’t. Not really anyway.
This is exactly why history will always end up repeating itself. Because people never fucking learn. We’re literally running through the same cycle, over and over again, just with slight variations on the same theme…and folks like yourself will always convince yourself that the best thing to do is exactly the same thing we did the last time, hoping for different results.
It’s the definition of insanity.
If we assume people can’t change, which is bullshit you believe people can change but you just falsely assume they can only change in one direction, what’s your solution?
If we believe your people cannot, there is no solution besides a whole lot of death or giving up entirely.
Also I have no interest of “doing the same thing as last time”. If we go back to the Confederacy every memeber of their government should have hanged. In modern times we should actually bring our public officals to trial for their crimes.
We need major changes to our society as a whole. That’s only going to happen if we get people to switch sides to achieve a majority. Or the less savory option of trying to murder the other half of the population while they try to do the same
It’s insane to believe we can change a system and not change its people
Btw human history isn’t the past 150 years of American politics. People have an immense capacity to change and learn.
I don’t know that a Trump voter holds the same culpability as a Confederate soldier.
More culpability then, I agree.
That’s only because the civil war hasn’t started yet.
More.
It’s a community in the same way fans of a TV show are. Parasocial at most. Shared imbecility, more probably.
Cautiously optimistic, until they turncoat on us.
It’s important to welcome people leaving cults, no matter how dumb it looks that they were in the cult in the first place. The main reason they were there is community, and if they don’t find a welcoming community outside, they’ll go right back in.
Rehabilitation of people willing to forgo MAGA and the conservatism that fuels it is one thing, but quotes like “He’s a con man, a liar, doesn’t keep his promises” illustrate that some voters haven’t had a change of heart about MAGA policies, just on Trump’s ability to actually deliver on them.
Depends on what they’re referencing. Some people only vote on single issues for some reason. Is he mad that Trump said “no new wars” and did the opposite? Or is he mad that Trump hasn’t finished the border wall?
Context matters a lot
If they truly have learned maybe they can be saved, but god damn how out of touch would you have to be to only just now be figuring this out?
I’m glad they finally figured it out, but I’m definitely still going to give them shit about being fooled 3 times in a row.
And I’m also not going to trust them as far as I can throw them when it comes to not getting fooled a 4th time.
This is a good point. Con men target people who have been conned in the past, because the person’s personality hasn’t changed — they’re still an easy mark with the same levers that worked last time.
It is kind of baffling to me that many don’t seem to have an analysis/understanding of maga beyond “stupidity and racism”.
Of course that’s a big part, but by itself, it’s only scratching the surface?
And you don’t have sympathy for Trump voters turning cloak? Seriously? I hope you can at least pretend because you aren’t getting out of this mess without working with people like that. Else you might as well give up now.
Trump didn’t brainwash people more than Hitler did. Both catered to a selfish, bigoted, entitled worldview and promised people they could act on their worst impulses towards others and that while doing so their lives would improve. They delivered on the first part but their regimes do nothing for improving the quality of life. “Trump’s a con man” is not the same as reflecting on one’s own worldview, taking accountability for what they’ve enabled, and putting in the effort to fix what you can while making sure you don’t go down the same path again when the next huckster runs for office. These people were motivated by blaming anyone else for their “problems”. They blamed immigrants, women, people of color, liberals, antifa, queer folk. Nothing has changed, they’re just blaming Trump and not themselves. Until that attitude changes, fuck ‘em.
Until that attitude changes, fuck ‘em.
What I don’t understand is how you expect that attitude to change. Bigottry isn’t some kind of inate human characteristic, it is a tool/weapon used to divide us and stop us from reaching our goals.
I get that it’s nice to imagine people just snapping out of it an realizing all their mistakes, but in the vast majority of cases, this won’t happen by sheer magic…
Bigotry is thaught by your environment. And environment won’t change without great effort. The right is putting in great effort to change people’s environment so they don’t get exposed to ideas which are dangerous to them. What is your suggestion, to just let them and give up? You think leftists and organizers of the past did that?
They want me to not exist. I’m not fucking working with anybody that believes that. They can rot in hell
When I say “you”, I mean you Americans and online lefties in general, not you personally… I’m not suggesting you pit yourself in danger, but the only chance of turning around and somehow saving us from global disaster is to build mass movements along class lines.
And I’m not saying bigotry isn’t an issue, quite the opposite. But a prerequisite to combat bigottry and organising in general is contact and engagement, and we are so far away from even that. So many people are desperately searching for solution, and the only people giving them some kind of explanation is the right…
There is so much work to do and so little time, and frankly, having likeminded people talking about working class solidarity and rising up against the ruling class while doing jack shit except for ranting online and somehow expect change to happen by sheer magic is very demoralizing…
So if you don’t feel you are up to it or feel like you are putting yourself in danger, it does not apply to you. But we as the global left cannot afford to dismiss everyone who might still have bigotted views. And moments of disillusion with their right wing idols are perfect opportunities to work on their bigotry.
It’s the only thing combatibg bigotry, it always takes effort and time.
realise im in a cult
Holy shit gotta get out
hey everyone I was totally brainwashed fucking hell that was nuts you gotta listen to me
“fuck you piece of shit cult-sucker die die die hahaha no sympathy”
back to the compound for me
Ha ha, no. The analogy is more like you supposedly realized you were brainwashed and it cult twice before and returned to the cult both times after that and now want us to sympathize and help a third time. You will just do it again, so fuck off. Fool me once, shame on…shame on you. Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.
Lock the gate on the way back in we don’t want any more of you fuckers getting out.
you gotta listen to me
“We were trying to tell you for the last decade that it was a cult. How about you try listening for a few minutes?”
Good point. Fuck learning about why it took so long, fuck trying to deprogram them, get your moment of “told you so”.
Maybe if he said anything about the racism or sexism being bad instead of just the lying and corruption. Or maybe it’s time for the dumbest people on the planet to learn from the people who saw it coming instead of us always being told to listen to them.
If he wants to start making amends he can be the one that goes and explains it to the rest of the cult. I barely like talking to people who do agree with me, never mind some maga devotee.
“DO YOU WANT THIS TO BE REAL OR NOT”
No but when’s my reset point?
The worst part is this stupid asshole won’t acknowledge that everyone else is right and has been all along - it’s “You just happened to be right, but MY special conclusion now, happening now, is the only logical way to have concluded this.”