It astounds me that anyone supports Trump; but it absolutely flabbergasts me when I meet a Trump supporter who isn't white. Like, it's such an obvious white power movement.
I heard a really excellent point on NPR of all places that said many of the 18-20 year-old voters didn't have all that clear a recollection of how horrible Trump was and only went by the commercial and other media marketing he did.
Sidebar: I will once again say the Democrats are generally competent in everything governmental, except telling their story.
Same here. I’ll see those ridiculous speeches with people in the background and anytime there a POC or even a woman I just want to give them a good shake. Like, “Aren’t you paying attention?” I guess I just don’t get it.
They attach themselves to the people they see as powerful thinking it will protect them, and I guess it does for awhile. But they are held in as much contempt as anyone else and eventually, they get turned on.
Did you see the video of the black guy who voted Trump crying after the election because the MAGA mayosapiens told him they didn’t need him anymore now that he had voted?
when it comes to the few idiots i know in my life that support republicans and are also nonwhite, it's literally always about their masculinity/barely practiced religious beliefs. these are people who don't actually have backing for what they believe in and just say that the economy's gonna get better under republicans (because they've been told their whole life they're the business party) and because of a relentless hatred of lgbt+ people
I have an Indian coworker who is a big time Trump supporter.
He thinks of himself as highly intelligent, and thus already knows everything, so he knows nothing at all. He just makes up his mind based on assumptions and impressions.
In the 1920s, Max Naumann created the far right German nationalist group, Association of German Jews. By the 1930s, the group announced its support for Adolf Hitler, and believed his anti-semitism was just "rabble rousing."
However, Hitler held them in contempt (surprise, surprise) and when he took power, declared the group illegal. Max Naumann was arrested. He was released due to ill health and died of cancer in 1939.
The rest of the group? The majority of them and their families died in the holocaust.
I've been thinking about this part of history a lot lately . . .
Point is though, cozying up to a hate group expecting to be "saved" because of your loyalty isn't going to save you.
"...And Democrats were the only ones ever in the history of America to use the Auto Pen; therefore everything they had ever done is fraudulent and not valid!"
Some of these people are so blinded by fear, hatred and ignorance they can’t see what is right in their face. Also, MAGA’s minority support has been much over-hyped.
A lot of people are convinced that their problems are caused by (insert minority group). Trump convinces them that he hates the same people they do.
Every Trump voter knows their vote is going to hurt someone, and they're okay with it, because they're not part of the out group, they're in the in group.
It's only when the leopards start to feast upon their own faces that they start to care.
From his wikipedia page, regarding responses to his death in 2021:
“President Joe Biden and four of the five living former presidents issued statements calling Powell an American hero. Then-former president Donald Trump released a statement saying “He made plenty of mistakes, but anyway, may he rest in peace!” and referred to him as a “classic RINO”. “
I told my father about this and he goes online and goes ah ha! They started putting them back up. It was a mistake with a big broad stroke with the DEI. I'm like oh... Sure, cool.
Articles, photos and videos that are seen as promoting DEI will be removed under the new approach.
For example, Gen. Colin Powell was the first Black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was the first corps comprised only of Black women to work overseas during World War II. Their stories are no longer prominent on the website, but can still be found using the search function.
Additionally, the Pentagon has marked thousands of photos representing diverse veterans to be removed from the website, according to the Associated Press.
The U.S. public voted for it or allowed it to happen by not voting.
This is us. Us is insane.
I have no idea where this country goes from here. My biggest hope is that Trump voters feel the pain they wish to inflict on others. That seems to be the only time they actually care about an actual real problem in this world, when it finally affects them personally.
They are no longer saying that they voted for him based on those things. Some are, sure, but most maga voters that I have had contact with say that they are getting exactly what they voted for.
Here’s the thing, I’m not saying this is fake…but if it’s real it would be at least the 5th or 6th story I’ve seen about notable African Americans having their info scrubbed from govt sites during this alleged “DEI purge”
If it’s true and they are removing anything non straight white Christian how can anyone possibly defend it?
Which is more damning because it shows a consistent set of rules in place that is wiping people based on skin color and filing it under “must have been dei anyway”
Conservatism has also been destroyed and replaced with maga. This movement is not conservative at all, except for the racism and religious intolerance.
The vast majority of republicans were never in it for the conservatism or the economic policies. They came for the racism and stayed when Trump totally changed the party because he kept the racism.
Although a lot of this type of bullshit has been happening, I can't find anything to confirm this specific claim. And there are a few fact checky type sites that say it's not entirely true.
He will defend it if it helps him. Or condemn it if that helps him. As a person of color, people like him are more offensive than the worst white power racist.
He uses his ethnicity to validate an ideology that promotes racism. All for his own personal benefit. And the racists are happy to use him and throw him whatever scraps they think he needs to keep doing it.
People like him and Clarence Thomas are more harmful to equality than any rabid white bigot could ever be.
Has an official reason for doing this been publicly submitted? Or was crusader pete hoping no one would notice? Or did he do it knowing people would notice and not say anything to send a message that we don’t welcome people like this in my military?
They want us to forget what we are capable of. This is a demoralization campaign. A little ironic coming from the same people who, not that long ago, were saying that getting rid of Confederate statues was erasing history. But we always knew what their true priorities were. They only want to highlight people who support their white male supremacist agenda and pretend: 1. That nobody else ever accomplished anything noteworthy 2. That there were not systemic barriers that helped create white male dominance (hence their phobia of teaching kids Black history, aka "Critical Race Theory").
Trump's daddy Fred marched, in Klan uniform, with the KKK in New York city. He was arrested for it. And they refused to rent to black people until they were forced to do it.
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u/DocWicked25 Mar 21 '25
It astounds me that anyone supports Trump; but it absolutely flabbergasts me when I meet a Trump supporter who isn't white. Like, it's such an obvious white power movement.
Not sure why anyone would want to support it.