Oh they will find someone to blame, for sure! (Reply #21)

In the discussion thread: I think progressives need to understand Trump voters. No, really. [View all]

Tue Feb 21, 2017, 03:08 PM

CrispyQ (27,093 posts)

21. Oh they will find someone to blame, for sure!

Obama would be the preferable choice, but the media is a good one, too. And Kellyann Conway has already whined about those horrible obstructionist dems!

Their hypocrisy is what drives me absolutely nuts.

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72 replies	Author	Time	Post
I think progressives need to understand Trump voters. No, really. [View all]	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	OP
Well done	WomanWhoRoars	Feb 2017	#1
Welcome to DU, WWR.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#2
Not all Trump voters are asshole, but.....	world wide wally	Feb 2017	#3
I do not know all of them.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#4
Trump voters lack the same sense of morality and decency as we do.	geek tragedy	Feb 2017	#5
Angry, confused, and thus easily manipulated.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#6
Thanks	WomanWhoRoars	Feb 2017	#7
They take their persecution issues into the voting booth	leftstreet	Feb 2017	#9
Their candidate may have won,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#10
Do you think the people you know who voted for him understand they voted for a man who	BeckyDem	Feb 2017	#8
I do not think that Trump is particularly intelligent,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#13
I was curious if the people you know talk about what is happening	BeckyDem	Feb 2017	#20
I just talked with a Trump voter over the weekend.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#24
I think what I understand is some will never see past their own bigotry and we must not pander to	BeckyDem	Feb 2017	#26
It sounds like many of us are doing our best to educate.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#27
I have 3 Trumpers in my FB collective.	CrispyQ	Feb 2017	#11
A ranking of people to hate?	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#15
Oh they will find someone to blame, for sure!	CrispyQ	Feb 2017	#21
8 years of GOP obstruction was just fine,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#25
Lonesome Dove	njhoneybadger	Feb 2017	#12
Trump will continue on his way as his supporters become his victims.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#16
Lately I have been thinking that these supporters	logosoco	Feb 2017	#14
There is a strain of US Christianity that is termed the prosperity Gospel.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#17
The Prosperity Gospel is not just religious, although it might as well be	YoungDemCA	Feb 2017	#32
They don't want to understand us. Why should we return the favor?	Initech	Feb 2017	#18
Oh I agree. And my post expands on that.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#22
who said, "the line between voting for a bigot and being one is so fine as to be invisible"?	unblock	Feb 2017	#19
Agreed. Well said.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#23
The Rude Pundit said that. nt	tblue37	Feb 2017	#58
ah, thanks!	unblock	Feb 2017	#59
Good points to know	Kimchijeon	Feb 2017	#28
Accessories before the fact to his agenda.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#31
I disagree.	jrthin	Feb 2017	#29
I believe that some voted for him because they want to believe	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#30
I think Conservadems need to "understand" them	zipplewrath	Feb 2017	#33
Very true. Trade deals without conditions to protect labor	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#34
I've never bought this argument. They moved to the Republican party for cultural reasons.	geek tragedy	Feb 2017	#35
Agreed on you points about GOP working class voters.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#38
The unions managed them	zipplewrath	Feb 2017	#41
a lot of truth to what you write.	geek tragedy	Feb 2017	#46
Changing model with changing times	zipplewrath	Feb 2017	#72
Trump voters I have talked to largely voted for him because he's something different,	PatsFan87	Feb 2017	#36
Trump voters fell for Trump's lies.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#39
Bullshit. A Trump voter who is not racist or islamophobic or both is an extremely rare beast.	retread	Feb 2017	#37
I know a few admitted Trump voters. Most of that few are racist.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#40
Yet it seems that "sample size" was enough to support your op?	retread	Feb 2017	#44
My post was about support for a racist, etc being a tacit acceptance	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#50
Aside from disagreeing with the premise, I found it very thin on substance.	retread	Feb 2017	#70
I am saying that voting for Trump is acceptance of all that Trump is.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#71
My feeling on Trump voters,	agincourt	Feb 2017	#42
So you feel that 80% of Trump voters	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#43
Some of this support is a media creation as well	agincourt	Feb 2017	#47
Progressive candidates and their campaigns	FogerRox	Feb 2017	#45
And progressives must try to appeal to all voters,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#51
A few interactions with the morons	DiverDave	Feb 2017	#48
You are putting cold water on their warm right wing fantasies.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#52
They knew what they were doing. I will not excuse inexcusable behavior. n/t	Coventina	Feb 2017	#49
Yes they did. No matter their professed motivation,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#53
They validated him...	Freedomofspeech	Feb 2017	#54
Agreed. And you should not.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#55
Trump did not hide his fascistic self.	MineralMan	Feb 2017	#56
A good addition. Agreed. eom	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#60
When you say 'progressives', are you implying...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#57
Well, I said progressives.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#61
Well, then I completely don't understand your thread and this post...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#62
What is your understanding of the post?	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#63
I go back to my original question...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#64
The post IS the major point.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#65
Ok, one last try...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#66
Now I understand.	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#67
Technically, an English teacher or an Editor would instruct you to fix this...	Talk Is Cheap	Feb 2017	#68
Given that yours was the first comment expressing confusion,	guillaumeb	Feb 2017	#69

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