The butchers bill has come due: President Donald Trump is about to victimize his own voters

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Friday, Jan 20, 2017 06:59 AM CST

The butcher’s bill has come due: President Donald Trump is about to victimize his own voters

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/20/the-butchers-bill-has-come-due-president-donald-trump-is-about-to-victimize-his-own-voters/




Our new president's supporters are likely to suffer from his regressive policies. I have no compassion for them VIDEO
Chauncey DeVega




In the weeks between Election Day and Donald Trump’s inauguration, I have found a new hobby. On a daily basis I read various newspapers, magazines and websites in search of stories about Trump voters and how they are surprised by their hero’s broken promises, scared that he may take away their health care or worried about his troubling connections to Vladimir Putin and the Russian government. I then bookmark these news items in my Internet browser for later use. As Nero fiddles and his public dances I can at least try to find small joys and pleasures in the music.

This is my version of liberal Schadenfreude — with slightly more hostile intent. I doubt that I am alone in adopting this new distraction and source of pleasure.

The butcher’s bill is due.

There are many examples of Trump’s voters and their increasing pain and anxiety.

I am particularly fond of this explanation from a Trump voter who benefited from President Barack Obama’s health care reforms:

I’m not really a fan of [Obama’s] policies, but I like the fact that he gave me health insurance. And I have been worried about the fact that, you know, is it going to go away because, like I said, we’re in a situation now where I can’t afford to pay $1,200 a month. And I can’t go without insurance because [a family member] has to have it in order, you know . . . a transplant could be a million dollars. . . . Well . . . we liked [Trump] because he just seemed to be a businessman.

The Instagram site Trumpgrets ........................................




Social scientists have repeatedly shown the ways that American voters reason backward from their conclusions and ignore inconvenient information. The vast majority of Trump voters received their information from Fox News:................................




The butcher’s bill is due.......................

[Jake Stern]

1. Whole heartedly supported Bernie and was disappointed when he lost the primary BUT

never, even for one second, entertained the thought of voting for RasPutin's puppet TrumpenFuhrer.

The idea of millions losing their health coverage was enough to make me fill in the bubble next to Hillary's name.

Won't be all lovey dovey to them. Won't pat them on the back, offer them a tissue and say "there, there, we all make mistakes".

They're big on religion so I'll put this in religious terms. There has to be some sort of penance. They should feel the pain they've inflicted on others.

Heartless? Damn right it is but so is effectively sentencing huge numbers of your fellow Americans to death because you were royally pissed off about some fucking emails.

[qwlauren35]

3. I'm not feeling heartless.

All I want is for them to be willing to fight against the madness, once they realize what damage they've caused. It will take Republican voters to fight Republican politics. We have no voice, but maybe they will.

[Jake Stern]

4. The problem with that plan is that they won't

Deplorables never back down, they double down. The more you try to show them how wicked Benito Trumpolini is they more they'll defend him. You might get the so-called "centrist" Dems who voted Trump because they couldn't stomach voting for Hillary or those voters with a Libertarian bent who went for Johnson or Stein but that's about it.


Totally was all about go-along-to-get-along but the blatantly undemocratic election of the closest thing to a fascist ever in our history changed that. After the election I was on the "Gotta find a way to reach them" bandwagon but watched with disgust as they defended his billionaire cabinet picks and his blatant opacity. They're now defending his raising the cost of mortgage insurance by hundreds each year. Real eye opener.

[dalton99a]

2. As any con man would.