They really believe it...

[lisa58]

My sister and brother-in-law came to visit today. My BIL is not necessarily a Trumper - but is very happy with his policies- thinks it’s all good - I don’t understand...

[elleng]

1. Happy with the way he treats our allies?

[Ilsa]

2. Tax cut was simple bribery. nt

[democratisphere]

3. brain dead.

There is no other plausible explanation.

[Dawson Leery]

4. 36-39% of the country are just bad people

who want a strong man to keep them safe from the others.

[RKP5637]

5. That's really pretty much the bottom line. They would have loved Hitler's promises too. n/t

[kennetha]

7. They are part of the rising illiberal tide

who do not believe in what political philosophers call reasonable pluralism. They want a volksstaat, an ethnonationalist state, free of the unwanted, often dark skinned others, and cosmopolitan intellectuals who look down on them. The want a politics based on blut and boden, as the Germans used to say back in the day.

Now how they think they are going to achieve their Volksstaat, I have no idea. But I think they will be opening agitating for such a thing for years to come.

[byronius]

9. That Old-Time Religion.

Lizard brains indeed.

[byronius]

8. Mildly criminal psychopaths. Well, some severe.

Throwbacks. Too much of the ancestor in them, not enough good information.

Loud and incompetent. Absolutely sure of Everything.

[nini]

6. did you kick them out of your house?

Supporting fascist policies gets them cut the hell out of my life.