These are the people who have been referred to as “low-information voters.” They didn’t listen when it was suggested that they should look into the politics that they were going to vote for, and now they’re having Big Feelings that there are myriad consequences for voting as they did.
The Google search for “what are tariffs” on the DAY AFTER the election was one of the top results. As were “abortion bans” and “will Social Security be cut.”
Things they refused to believe before the election, things they scoffed at, said “the libs”were delusional about, suddenly became important only after it was too late to make a difference.
I can’t remember the reddit forum, but someone pointed out an interesting view: that the base needs a target to bully, and now that Democrats are done with their nonsense, it’s cutting off the supply of endorphins they get from bullying.
Which tracks, from what I’ve witnessed in my own experience, with family and friends alike.
They’re angry that their actions have consequences. They’re angry that people are refusing to be victimized and told they’re less than for believing everyone deserves basic human rights. They’re angry that some of the women in their families have refused to host Thanksgiving, that they’re “breaking up families over something as silly as politics.”
They’re angry that they won. They’re the angriest bunch of winners I’ve ever seen.
TikTok and X are full of Trump voters who are furious that everyone else won’t listen to them anymore, and still trying to convince people (themselves? Democrats? honestly, it’s unclear) that the GOP won’t do what it has plainly stated it’s going to do.
Leftists have reached their limit. They refuse to make excuses for even close family members. Fathers who were willing to sacrifice their wives’ and daughters’ rights to healthcare and bodily autonomy are finding themselves served with divorce papers and being blocked from all contact. Friends who’ve heard racist, sexist, misogynistic and xenophobic spew, but didn’t push back, are ending those relationships. The base doesn’t care to explore the truth of this, that it was not about politics, but about morality. They refuse to believe that, too.
This is what they voted for. They don’t get to aim punitive policies at the people they don’t like without the fallout landing on themselves.
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