From camaraderie to a shared political vision, these campaign rally regulars explain why they are all-in for Trump
  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world
    221·
    3 months ago

    It’s really fascinating to watch any of Jordan Klepper’s videos where he visits MAGA rallies and interviews attendees.

    These people are pretty far gone.

  • braindefragger@lemmy.world
    161·
    3 months ago

    They are the Maga masses – ordinary people for whom Donald Trump represents hope, not fear, and whose lives have been changed by the Trump era.

    ordinary people

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      23·
      3 months ago

      You say ‘ordinary’, but do these ordinary people make up the majority? The popular vote was uncomfortably close in swing states between Trump and Biden, last time.

      Considering we live in a world where ordinary people don’t seem to be demanding a better world for people (we don’t even make sure all children are fed, for example), I don’t have the highest level of trust in ordinary people.

      • braindefragger@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        You say ‘ordinary’

        I didn’t say anything. I quoted the first paragraph from the article you didn’t read.

        • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          3 months ago

          Sorry, I read your post as saying that ordinary people doubt the idea that Donald Trump has any positive traits.

          If you doubt that Trump voters are ordinary people, then I wonder how he won the presidency the first time, and came close the second time. Ordinary people don’t seem to have made a particularly great world, after all.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
    162·
    3 months ago

    I couldn’t. I got through the first one - barely. Then I started the second and began power-barfing and screaming. Had to close the tab.

    Every paragraph is quotable, but here’s the last three of contestant number one:

    A lot of politicians – 99% of the politicians – are going to blow smoke up your ass and lie to you to tell you whatever they want to tell you but this guy, he’s going to tell it exactly where it is. That’s why I call him the Blackest president we ever had.

    I am seeing more Black people attend the rallies. Especially with them bullying him through the streets these days with giving him all these fake charges. Trump gets to see how Black men live out here and now, right before every American eye, where they used to say that Black people are crying wolf, now they get to see exactly how the justice system does us as Blacks. They’re bullying him literally right before everyone’s eyes and it’s not fair.

    That’s why I call him the Blackest president ever alive.

    • Pennomi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 months ago

      Imagine thinking Trump is speaking honestly, despite the nigh infinite counterexamples.

      • Optional@lemmy.world
        0·
        3 months ago

        In the beginning it was purely business, but now it’s fully fledged. This is what I believe in and stand for. I think he gives a damn. He simply cares. Everyone wants to make him out to be a racist but man, the biggest thing I ask people is: show me one racist thing he’s done to us Blacks besides help us.

    • Xanis@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 months ago

      Given how his particular base tends to lie, I went and double-checked to make sure it wasn’t some fat white guy being quoted. In a rather shocking turn…it was not a fat white guy, and for that I am rather horrified.

    • thesohoriots@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      They’ve made an interesting overlap with the doomsday preppers, I’ve noticed. If the Trump merch slows down, rebrand some crappy solar chargers off Aliexpress, buy an alt-right podcast ad read, throw on a no-returns policy, and you are in business.

  • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    Someone who’s still “maga” at this point is not someone I will listen to. They’re now a cult.