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minus-squarenao@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 day agodo they really believe people will vote for them because they are arresting people who weren’t going to vote for them
minus-squareLucidlethargy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-29 hours agoUnfortunately Trump’s base is very cruel, and yes they do enjoy seeing this. They will scream one minute about abortion, then scream the next about how all the children in Palestine deserve to die. This is not hyperbole. This is the real politics over here right now, and it’s fucking insane.
minus-squareBytemeister@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·14 hours agoYes. And it keeps working.
minus-squareTheFogan@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-223 hours agoNo they believe that if they stop everyone who will vote against them from voting, that the handful of die hard supporters will carry the rest. They aren’t trying to motivate the base, they are trying to either arrest or intimidate the opposition.
do they really believe people will vote for them because they are arresting people who weren’t going to vote for them
Unfortunately Trump’s base is very cruel, and yes they do enjoy seeing this.
They will scream one minute about abortion, then scream the next about how all the children in Palestine deserve to die.
This is not hyperbole. This is the real politics over here right now, and it’s fucking insane.
Yes. And it keeps working.
It works for Putin.
No they believe that if they stop everyone who will vote against them from voting, that the handful of die hard supporters will carry the rest. They aren’t trying to motivate the base, they are trying to either arrest or intimidate the opposition.