The number of people who think he's "just kidding" about a lot of this stuff, or "that's just how he talks" or "it's all part of a negotiation tactic" is insane. I've been over in leopardsatemyface a lot, and lately been lurking in conversative subs just to see what they're saying and it's finally starting to sink in that this might be bad to some of them.
Wildest thing I saw was someone in the main conservative subreddit saying they wished Trump knew when to stop talking, because all the talk about Greenland and Canada and 51st state and tariffs is just distracting everyone from what would otherwise be considered the greatest presidency of all time.
The number of people who think he's "just kidding" about a lot of this stuff, or "that's just how he talks" or "it's all part of a negotiation tactic" is insane. I've been over in leopardsatemyface a lot, and lately been lurking in conversative subs just to see what they're saying and it's finally starting to sink in that this might be bad to some of them.
It's mostly the consequences of, ironically, the "Deep State" consisting of Republican establishment members in his cabinet during his first term. People (excluding obviously vulnerable minorities such as trans people) saw that, experienced 2016-19, came out relatively fine versus the COVID years, and assumed the current Trump term would be like that. This was exacerbated by conservative media downplaying Project 2025 and an obvious intensification of far-right populist rhetoric by the campaign.
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u/DrJohnnyBananas74 1d ago
Big dummy, he literally said he'd do this and mooks like you voted for him.