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Opinion: It's not just hopium: People really are leaving MAGA (www.salon.com)

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But I stuck with MAGA. The fear of losing my community terrified me. For the better part of a year, I spent myriad sleepless nights wrestling with my conscience.

The final straw came for me on May 24, 2022, when a gunman massacred 19 kids and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. MAGA’s response was that we needed more guns. My research had shown me that was egregiously mistaken. Overwhelmed by guilt for having contributed to this madness, I quit MAGA.

Three months later, I published a mea culpa, in which I renounced my support for Trump and apologized for my hurtful deeds and rhetoric. I never imagined that anyone would care. But the opposite was true: I was deluged with requests for help from people hoping to save their relationships with their friends and loved ones in MAGA.

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[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Opinion

Oh, so this is worthless.

80% approval among his supporters. 80 fucking percent. And that has barely moved since the start of his presidency. The overwhelming majority of the people who voted for him last election have said they wouldn't change their vote.

As much as the dip shit writing this article wants you to believe it, thinking that his base is abandoning him in any meaningful way IS hopium, and that is dangerous as fuck. That's ultimately why Trump won again, because people ignored reality. They thought that surely people couldn't be THAT stupid and ignorant to not recognize what a horrible person Trump is. The harsh reality is yes, they ARE that stupid and ignorant. They still love everything he's doing and see Democrats as the literal devil.

That's where we're at. Don't believe any horseshit that claims that his base is turning against him. Treat any source that makes such a claim as a psy-op.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

80% approval among his supporters.

Of course most of his supporters support him. Honestly, that should be 100%.

The key thing to ask, though, is how many of those supporters does he have? And the numbers are definitely dropping.

[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The last thing most people will do is admit they're wrong and when given the chance to change their minds the first thing they'll do is make excuses for why they don't need to.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If nothing else, a large portion of his supporters are elderly and/or in very bad health. Even if not a single one of them changes their mind, there will still be fewer and fewer as time goes on.

[–] j5y7@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

A fair point. But I am afraid they're being replaced by young idiots who listen to crappy comedian podcasts and Facebook AI slopaganda. We just gotta hope they stay unvaccinated, eat raw and keep taking unregulated pharmaceuticals.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I remember people saying the electorate changing via attrition as older people die and younger people reach voting age would be sufficient to make things better 20 years ago... Still waiting...

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

It's a bit of a paradox, but the more people that leave maga, the higher that approval rating will go.