• Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    If taking away their healthcare, pensions, income and safety nets didn’t do it, why would this be the red line?

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      I think the combination of

      taking away their healthcare, pensions, income and safety nets

      is making the redline more material.

      Also, like, its hard to overstate how central the pedophilia/ pizzagate / “secret cabal” / qanon shit was to the movement that got Trump elected. Its practically their whole identity, and Trump, I think, I think he see’s himself as no longer needing or having a use for these people.

      And those people have had their foodstamps cut off, the mexican placed is closed because of deportation fears, the economy has gone to shit and labor is drying up because no one is doing projects in bad economic times, and now it sure fucking seems like its their fucking guy protecting the pedophiles.

      I had an aunty once say to me “there is rarely one reason for anything”. So yeah, its more than one issue, but clearly, if Trump looks like he’s protecting pedophiles (which they objectively are), welp. The right has been arming up for decades. Maybe this time they’ll find the right target.