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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

why did all you clowns support trump lol idiots

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Are you a zoomer or something? Anyone who was paying attention before 2015 knows the whole world thought Trump was going to be Hitler 2.0. We loved him because we thought he was possessed by Hitler, normies loved him because they thought he was possessed by Hitler, catladies and the media etc hated him because they thought he was Hitler.

There wasn't a single dissident right guy who was calling out the fake and gay until early 2017 just after he got in office and it immediately became clear he's not doing anything good.

Even guys like Ahab and his dad who had been NS for decades and saw Buchanan's campaign and what Trump did to the Reform Party still fell for it. There was literally nobody who was ringing the alarms back then.

[–]Sapphire 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Hmm, as someone who's been active (on and off) in alt-right/dissident-right/WN circles since 2013, I remember a lot of cautious optimism and skepticism about Trump in 2015/most of 2016. It was during the few months before he was elected and when he was President-Elect that people got intoxicated by him and swept up in the excitement.

I felt his rhetoric was too good to be true, personally. He was a mainstream celebrity, billionaire, reality TV persona and an NYC Baby Boomer with Jewish connections to boot.

Trump was always something like a human Rorschach Test. People saw what they wanted to see in him. The left, Ben Shapiro tier neocons, and the dissident right saw a crypto-white nationalist/fascist, sure, but don't forget the legions of normie boomer conservatives who saw him as Ronald Reagan 2.0 (not Hitler 2.0) who was going to bring economic prosperity, stand up to the ChiComs and do wonderful things for the black community, helping to get them off that "Democrat plantation."

The immigration dogwhistles? As far as they're concerned, that's not really about race... it's about illegal immigration.

[–]MarkimusNational Socialist 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

but don't forget the legions of normie boomer conservatives who saw him as Ronald Reagan 2.0 (not Hitler 2.0) who was going to bring economic prosperity and do wonderful things for the black community, helping to get them off that "Democrat plantation."

Nobody thought of Trump as this until like 2018. His entire rhetoric was populist about bringing jobs back, kicking out immigrants etc. All these people who love Reagan and shit were never Trumpers who liked Ted Cruz.