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trump has been harder on gun rights than other modern presidents even before this term...
A progressive that's pro 2A would absolutely kill it in any election right now. And any politician who isn't pro 2A at this point is telling us they don't have what it takes if it comes to it.
This is about the voter base. Most people who support guns and are anti regulation are Trump voters. https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/06/06/gun-attitudes-and-the-2024-election/
Thing is, that base puts the 2nd Amendment before ANYTHING else. If it turns out Trump wants to take away their firearms, tey'll turn on him in a millisecond.
When I have to talk to the MAGA gun owners that I deal with, I bring the conversations around to the fact that Trump came out of New York City and he was raised in a political value system of gun restrictions.. He just said all the right things he needed to - he lied, like he alwatys does - to get the hunters and shooters to vote for him, but really, he is NOT for the 2nd Amendment.. Now.. they're starting to see it and take it as gospel.
Trump got elected playing to the white fear of a minority takeover of the United States..
I choose to play to their BIGGER fear, and that is of losing their gun rights.
That's insane. "Pro-2A" isn't a real position. The idea of a black man owning a gun is what's at issue.
If voters just wanted a progressive with NRA friendly gun views, those were a dime a dozen twenty years ago. They all got swept out by Reagan Republicans
Timeline check. Reagan Republicans in 2005?
(Legit not sure if you're a fellow millennial that goofed how long ago twenty years ago was, or if Reagan Republicans stuck around longer than I thought. I didn't start paying attention to politics until college.)
I guess Bush Republicans would be a better turn of phrase. But they all came out of the same White Flight that Reagan kicked off in the 1980s. The big Republican landslides of 1994, 2002, and 2010 either flipped or purged a bunch of the Kennedy Democrats from the Gulf Coast states and turned them into GOP strongholds.
The gerrymandering of the first Bush term also gave birth to a bunch of flipped House seats and state legislatures, ultimately paying off big in 2004 (and again in 2010 and 2014 and 2016 and 2022).