More TrumpRegrets every day: Now the hard-right nationalists are losing their religion

[DonViejo]

FRIDAY, APR 14, 2017 12:00 PM EDT

More TrumpRegrets every day: Now the hard-right nationalists are losing their religion

He's not locking up Hillary, he can't deliver cheap health care and now he's a warmonger. This could get ugly, fast

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

The story of the regretful Donald Trump voter has already become a cliché. It started even before the inauguration, with reporters venturing out into the wilds of Real America to talk to the most fascinating people on earth and find out how they’re feeling on any given day. The Trump voter has a lot of feelings, you see. And we want to know about every single one of them, all the time.

During the transition we learned that a lot of Trump voters were upset when their hero declined to arrest Hillary Clinton and “lock her up.” Evidently, when they heard “Drain the Swamp,” they thought that was what he meant. Indeed, the thrill of seeing the much-loathed former secretary of state clapped in handcuffs was the main reason many of them voted for him. For a time they could have put their hopes in House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Jason Chaffetz but, alas, even he seems to have lost interest.

It wasn’t long before Trump voters began to complain of other apostasies, so many in fact that people began to collect them on social media. A Tumblr called “Trumpgrets” was createed shortly after the election to chronicle all the articles about regretful Trump voters, and a Facebook page called “IregretvotingforTrump” featured ongoing testimony of remorse. A Twitter feed called Trump Regrets even got national attention retweeting people who were upset with one thing or another. It’s amazing how many there were, right from the beginning.

The Huffington Post interviewed six disappointed Trump tweeters just before the inauguration and while they were mostly upset about the lack of a Clinton prosecution they also worried that he was putting his son-in-law in the White House and dismissing all the emerging information about Russia. One man said simply, “I would still vote for Trump over Hillary any day of the week, I just wish he would follow through on all of the promises he made.”

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[Cary]

1. Sorry but they're morons and losers

I will not cast my lot with morons and losers and I am not surprised to see their fascism implode. Fascism is subversive. The thousand year Third Reich lasted all of 12 years and in that short span brought nothing but death, destruction, misery and despair. This iteration will fare no better.

Vote Democratic!

[tanyev]

2. So sad.

[ginnyinWI]

3. Hard to see what they saw in him.

My first look at Donnie told me he was a phony, a liar, and a scam artist. The people who voted for him must have been so desperate, after two Obama terms, to get a Repub back into the White House that they must have gone into denial at what their eyes were telling them.

Rather than going to a mainstream Repub who was more reasonable and sane, they went for the showman with the best insults. And now look what they've got. All swagger and little substance.

Well it does make me rest a little easier because I realize how little substance there really is to this guy. He's not deep and not calculating. He operates by the seat of his pants and in the moment, and is constrained by people around him to not go off the deep end.

And Bannon is such a joke. He is the anti government influence, supposedly. But if Donnie wants to do anything at all, he puts himself at odds with Bannon. I can see why Bannon has been sidelined.

[dalton99a]

4. 90% will reelect him.