r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • 16h ago

Soft Paywall Obama Breaks Silence on Trump’s ‘Unimaginable’ Presidency - “Imagine if I had done any of this,” the former two-term president said.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obama-breaks-silence-on-trumps-unimaginable-presidency/
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u/kittenTakeover 15h ago

A big part of the problem is that Republican leaders are not honest. This skews conversation so that Republican criticism is muted and Democratic criticism is enhanced. For some reason conservative voters seem to be oblivious to this dishonesty. It's difficult to comprehend how they can't see it.

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u/ohseetea 14h ago

Their news sources are propaganda, mostly. Another big share is okay with it because they live in fear, judgement and hatred and see those values represented in conservativeness.

I mean the second has always happened throughout history, look at any amount/type of progress that has ever happened and a big chunk of the population was against it for no other reason than fear. Why it's such a perfect storm of halfsies who knows - maybe there is some mass biological reason for it.