Within 2 years, you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone to publicly admit to voting for Trump

[scheming daemons]

In December of 2008, Pew did a poll in which they ask people who they voted for in the 2004 election.

It found that only 28% of the public admitted to voting for George W Bush. This was even though he got 51% on Election Day in 2004 in the actual vote.

That is how much a pariah Bush had become by late 2008.... so much so that nearly half of the people who voted for him would not admit to pollsters that they did so.

By this time in 2019, I predict that you will have a hard time finding anyone who will publicly admit to voting for Trump. Not even among family members and friends who were staunch supporters of Trump.

They will experience Collective amnesia and will say things like "I supported a third-party candidate." Or "I didn't vote."

They'll all be like the Apostle Peter in the Bible with their "who is this Trump person you speak of? I don't know him."

Just watch.

[onecent]

1. I HOPE YOU ARE RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TeamPooka]

2. In 1947 they couldn't find anyone in Germany who admitted to having been a member of The Nazi Party

it was always "everyone else..."

[TeamPooka]

3. The ones who admit to voting for Trump will the ones carrying tiki torches in the street chanting

about blood and soil.

[Hortensis]

9. :) I think W's approval briefly tanked as low as 12%

or so in the last week or two as his most stubborn authoritarians finally realized he wasn't miraculously going to turn into the "winner" they thought they'd elected 8 years before.

Not sure the 4chan/nazi types won't want to dissociate from Rump long before that, though, already tend to see him as just a tool to power, and definitely from the types who thought they were getting a new Papa Reagan to take care of them.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. Within 2 years?! You really think it will take THAT long?!?!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. Yeah. It's close to 1 year

and it sounds like even some Republicans are getting too fed up with Trump and his incompetence, recklessness, and boorish behavior to keep their mouths shut. Some Republicans are even so frustrated about the lack of any significant accomplishments, they're choosing to retire rather than to have to stick around and be part of the mess they're all making of governing.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

14. If only! Sure hope you're right.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. I wonder

if, by the time our national Trump nightmare is over, Republicans might even admit that maybe it would have been better if Hillary had won after all. I doubt it, but still you'd think that maybe they'd be happier spending another 4-8 years obstructing and beating up on and running against the Clintons instead of having to actually govern and, you know, get things done, which they're obviously totally incompetent and ineffectual at.

[underpants]

6. According to Robert Reich it's already begun

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016194911

[brewens]

8. A FB friend booted me off his list just before the election. I'd known him since junior

high though we were never real good buddies.

Right at first he was on the Trump bandwagon during the primary campaign. After the first debate, he denounced Trump, wrote a scathing post and declared his allegiance to Fiorina. He went as far as saying he was crazy to even consider giving the nuclear codes to someone like Trump.

I remembered that post. This guy was also running for our state house here in Idaho. I few weeks before the election, I scrolled back through all his posts and found the one where he tore Trump out the new asshole! I commented on it praising him for being prophetic, nailing it right on the head, a brilliant post and all that! I did it pretty late at night and he woke up to that and a couple nasty comments directed at both of us!

A mutual friend told me he was really pissed! Going off on how even just a couple votes could cost him the election. I wasn't even thinking about that. There would probably have been no chance our democratic candidate could have won anyway. If it was a mid-term, maybe. I was just doing it to fuck with him a little and get some laughs from our democratic friends.

[barbtries]

10. i know who they are.

evil laugh

[mreilly]

11. Even in the Boston area where I live...

.... you could see PLENTY of cars with those "W" stickers back around 2004-2005.

Then 2007 or so rolled around and everyone started to get awfully sick of George W. Bush.

By early 2009, when Obama was sworn in, I saw about 10% of the "W" stickers I had beheld just 4-5 years earlier.

I know some of this can be chalked up to vehicular attrition; cars being retired or sold, but I'm quite sure a significant percentage of people peeled off those stickers, either out of genuine shame or fear of being given dirty looks.

[ProudLib72]

12. It's all well and good if they don't admit

But does it prove they've learned their lesson, or are they going to vote for the next rethug asshole to come along?

[Joe941]

13. We know who they are whether they admit it or not.

[Saboburns]

15. In 2 years they will be saying that Trump is a lifelong Democrat.

And they will be on to backing the next Republican Idiot they are told to back.

[Captain Stern]

16. I hope you're right...but I think you're wrong.

Here's why:

The Trump supporters simply don't believe he's done anything wrong.

I don't mean that they haven't heard about the stuff he's done......they think those things are all lies.

Did he say he grabbed women's pussies?....nope...fake news...didn't happen.
Did he say there were good people on both sides in Charleston?....NO!...mainstream media lies!
Is he the one that made the deaths of our soldiers in Niger political?....NO! It was that congresswoman.

Thanks to Trump, our economy is finally thriving...we are finally adding jobs again, after the 8-year long depression we endured under Obama. And, did you see that the stock market is at an all-time high?...way higher than it was when Obama was President.

And, it's finally legal to say "Merry Christmas" again.

It's only been nine months, and our country is almost great again.


That's pretty much what we're up against.