Why don't people like Trump?

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we have record inflation, gas at an all time high, border is a mess, taliban has half our 🪖 military and some of our citizens hostage, lgbtqis+ people working in schools, tons of shooting... the list goes on...

And still few (very few) people b like "it's a good thing we got rid of Trump huh?"

Do they live in the Salt mines or what the heck is wrong with these people?

nightdrot · Accepted Answer

In no small measure because the paradox of Mr. Trump and "Trumpism" is that he - and it - are so disagreeable. This has an enormous appeal to his base voters. So while former President Trump does not have majority popular support, he does have an intense base of core supporters who will stick with him come what may.

Please note that Mr. Trump is a populist. The appeal of populism is that it rejects the "establishment" and view the "politicians" as "corrupt" and untrustworthy. The country has seen this before. William Jennings Bryan, H. Ross Perot, Patrick Buchanan, Bernie Sanders. These are not, contrary to popular belief, ideological figures but rather appeal to a cultural attitude of envy and resentment, particularly directed against those in power.

As noted, President Trump is in the populist tradition. In office he espoused elements that, historically speaking, had been seen in both parties. Anti-immigrant, tax the rich, anti-war. The list goes on and for Mr. Trump there is a bit of fortuitous timing.

Beginning in about the 1980s, the economy began a transition from a manufacturing/extractions based economy to a high tech/service economy. This has pushed aside those workers, particularly the lower middle class blue collar workers, who had traditionally thought of themselves as patriotic, church going, hard working and fair minded.

They had been Mr. Reagan's base in the 1980s. Hence the slogan at that time, "The Democrats made me middle class. The Republicans will keep me middle class." However, as the economy began to change, the need for the skills of the blue collar working class has begun to decline, with the result that they are experiencing higher unemployment, declining wages, rising suicide rates. rising addictions rates and a lowered lifespan. They have experienced a decline in living standards and they deeply resent being pushed aside.

Moreover, the Democrats, which used to be the party of the working man, is now appealing to the college educated upper middle class white collar worker. Thus did Mrs. Clinton speak of the "deplorables" and Mr. Obama spoke of them "clinging to guns and religion."

Such condescension, suffice to say, has not gone down well with the lower middle class and. iIt is to this group that Mr. Trump appeals. He repays the "establishment" and the politicians with a seething contempt that is, to say no more, shared by the lower middle class.

This paradoxically leads to two contradictory outcomes, Actually President Trump's support has been remarkably constant. Hovering around the 47% mark since he was elected and - unusually - not much impacted one way or the other. When the economy was booming, Mr. Trump was at 47%. When the pandemic and impeachment hit - about the same.

This in contrast to, for example, former President Reagan. At his low water mark, the 1982 recession when the rate of unemployment hit 10.8% - until this pandemic induced recession, the highest of the post WWII era - Reagan dropped to 34%. Then the economy began to boom and by 1986, President Reagan hit an eye watering 71% approval.

That is the norm and in that sense former President Trump has defied gravity. Albeit at a level below majority support. He is not popular among the upper middle class because, unlike Reagan who was - as one writer put it, "the amiable king of the political jungle" - he offers them no olive branch, as it were.

Mr. Trump's record is somewhat more mixed than the question implies, though definitely better than Mr. Biden's. However, good or bad, people tend to resent those who "rub their noses in it," so to speak, and this Mr. Trump does with gusto.

Put simply, Mr. Trump is not more popular because he is, in a sense his own worst enemy. Unlike Mr. Reagan, has no capacity to reach beyond his base, and thus while controversial, he leaves no enduring policy legacy.

BeMuse · Accepted Answer

It's called mass formation psychosis. The weak minded were brainwashed into a frenzy via propaganda and believe falsehoods with no grounds for their beliefs. It doesn't matter if they are shown the truth of their error, they can't see the truth. During the Iranian revolution, people were brainwashed in the same way and as a result they so strongly believed certain ideas that you could not convince them otherwise. One example in the Iranian revolution was that is silly is that people swore they could the ayatollah's face on the surface of the moon as if it was a sign from God. The same is true with the mask retards today. It doesn't matter that there are 40 years of scientific evidence showing that they do not work to protect from viruses. It doesn't matter that there are current studies on COVID and how masks were totally ineffective and potentially harmful, the maskers faith is strong in their delusion. The same goes for the experimental vaccines. The states show that 95% or so of people who die from COVID today are at least tripple vax, yet they still keep drinking the kool-aid and going to get booster shots. It doesn't matter that Biden is "building the wall" on the Mexican border just like every President going back to 1909, It's Trump that is racist to Mexicans for building the wall. You can't reason with the sheep, they are literally retarded and are in a state of mental psychosis from which they can not understand reality.

Agape93 · Accepted Answer

Sexual predator, racist, incompetent and a massive arrogant asshole. I find 0 things appealing about him, his policies or anything regarding him.

TrueConfection · Accepted Answer

It's not that this mess could be seen coming. This is the same mess we had when Joey was VP.

loveslongnails · Answer

"Record Inflation" - of course, that all happened the day Biden took over, right? There were no other events that contributed to that, were there? And if there were, it didn't happen on Trump's watch, did it? Or Obama's? Or Bush's? etc.

Considering that Trump's "deal" with the Taliban was a national security disgrace in and of itself, he paved the way for Biden's blunder as well by flat out refusing to turn over any intel. Reliable intel was difficult to get from anyone, and as it turns out, Trump had shit intel, Biden had shit intel, and the whole thing went into deeper shit with bad decisions.

Trump has a PROVEN record of cozying up to dictators and ass wipe leaders while alienating allies. His hand in Afghanistan essentially gave a green light to the Taliban to do anything they want. Trump actually "believed" they could be trusted, the same way he "believed" Putin could be. But no worries, Biden still believes a lot of stupid shit too.

The border has been a mess for over 50 years, dude. Every administration since Reagan kicked the can down the road.

Yes, it IS a good thing Trump is gone. It will be a good thing when Biden goes too. The problem is there's no one on the radar who wants the job that isn't a total fuck up and worse than either of them (DeSantis and Pence come to mind), and the Dems have no one either. It's a pitiful state of affairs.

IAteTwoFullHams · Answer

Well, because he was a lunatic who never read anything, never listened to anyone, and said insane things like "the noise from windmills causes cancer" and "maybe we need to put UV light in people's veins" and "exercise depletes your stores of energy" and "they're saying hairspray affects the ozone layer, but my apartment is all sealed."

And he got a lot of people killed with his weird tinfoil-hat take on COVID-19.

Just an all-around terrible president. We elected a man with some kind of brain damage.

NewsReader · Answer

There are plenty of people who still do like him. He is still the #1 pick according to polls surveying republican voters. However, his popularity and influence has been going down because he keeps talking about the past and debunked election fraud claims instead of thinking about the future. People want to know what's next rather than what's in the past. So they are slowly drifting away from him and moving towards others such as DeSantis.

slatyb · Answer

What the F is wrong with you? Gas is high because oil prices are high. LGBTQ working in schools is a good thing. "Tons of shooting..." and which party blocks all proposals for gun control? Trump is an incompetent pathological liar. While in office he basically refused to do the job -- all he did was golf and rant.

Sixgunsound · Answer

Welcome to what happens after decades of propaganda conditioning in public school systems followed by a 24 seven orange man bad media blitz for the last six years. Something tells me this post is in a trigger snowflakes and trolls, so bring it!

Grubhub · Answer

Nobody is saying Biden was a better president than Trump. I also don’t want a horrible human being to lead this country. Trump actually led that riot into the capital. People died for him and he doesn’t even give a damn about their lives. So sad that they’d die for a man who doesn’t even care about them. What a guy and a leader

Snakeyes7 · Answer

It's because he just says whatever pops into his head. That's pretty much it. There are a couple policies that he made that I didn't like that the party opposite of him would have loved but they haven't said a peep about it.

The vast majority of the things the media says about him are either lies or things that haven't been proven in a court of law. You don't have to do that to make valid criticism of him.

Bratsondanielle · Answer

Well according to a new study about the brain libtards simply have a brain that works different than normal people

NamerOfStars · Answer

Because he's a bombastically narcissistic asshole. Not liking him is actually quite understandable. Why people don't dislike Joe Biden and co is a far more interesting question.

FilmGuy93 · Answer

Trump scared people. He was pointing out things that make it extremely difficult for people, especially liberal, free-minded folks who see the good in the world, to continue thinking that their world wass okay.

Jessica405 · Answer

A lot of these things are world wide. Nothing to do with the Biden/Trump divide. Things in UK and Netherlands pretty much the same.

exitseven · Answer

He was a mean tweeter. Some people cannot take the mean tweets.

Reaper1985 · Answer

because left wing media screamed *orange man bad* for nearly 4 years while he was in office and even while he's no longer in office they continue to do so.

888theGreat · Answer

He was outsider than won and both parties didn't like that. People are jealous of him. He brags on himself a lot. People think he just inherited all his money, when he really made far more than his dad did.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

They're just flat out too stupid to know any better! Even dogs know you don't attack the people that treat you great!

jshm2 · Answer

Those were under Trump. Kiddo. He left the mess for the adults to deal with after him.

Friendlybro79 · Answer

Get your head out of your ass and watch the Jan 6 trials and spare me your nonsensical conspiracy theories if you are into them.

Anonymous · Answer

The people who don't like him are smart enough to see through his lies and bs. They're also smart enough to realize that those are complex issues caused by a worldwide pandemic, not by BrEnDoN

jimmy2 · Answer

Trump had the best encomy going till the first day of the Biden regime

Sour-rose · Answer

Ya jokin' yeah?

ethanallen · Answer

Only intelligent people don't like Trump.

Dargil · Answer

Why do people like Trump?

Waldoe · Answer

Ideologs' are blind and stupid

BLP11520 · Answer

CNN and others were always negative about Trump

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