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When ABC News' Terry Moran asked Pres. Donald Trump to respond to voters who may be concerned that rising costs are not what they "signed up for," Trump responded: "Well, they did sign up for this actually."

https://x.com/ABC/status/1917379788408312308

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[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

YES WE DID! He told us we might have to hurt a little in order to fix our financial situation. He said this at his rally’s.

I don't think the libs have come to terms that a plurality of Trump supporters are tautologically Trump supporters. Like, they support Trump because their identity is supporting Trump. They define themselves as Trump supporters. Their first principle is "Trump is right, he's my guy".

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

People have just gone "all in" on Trump. Part of it can probably be explained with "sunk cost" but I think it's mainly a symptom of people struggling with the confusion and hardship of the modern political/economic landscape. It's not even unique to the right, tbh. "Blue no matter who" is the same phenomenon, as are people going all-in on idpol or even anarchism or communism. Before anyone gets mad about those last ones, just think of all the ardent reds who know basically nothing about theory (I'm not totally innocent of that characterization myself).

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

something something non-falsifiable orthodoxy something

[–] Sickos@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

During the trade war, the fascist ideological framework could transform any data about existing amerikkkan society into positive evidence. If Trump refused to negotiate a point, he was playing hardball and forcing the enemy's hand; if he appeared willing to make concessions, this was skillful diplomacy. By enforcing high tariffs, he was combatting the trade deficit; but when in fact he rolled back most tariffs, it was because he understood the art of the deal. If the stock market was down, this demonstrated that foreign interests were manipulating the economy; but if the line went up, this meant the people were embracing the regime's policies. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of communist infiltration; if they didn't go on strike (because they were intimidated and lacked freedom) it represented satisfaction with employment. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the need to re-shore manufacturing; an improvement in grocery prices meant that the leaders were listening to the population's needs.

If conservative parties in other countries suffered massive electoral losses while mirroring Trump's policies, this was only because the elections were rigged by a massive leftist conspiracy. How one rigged elections without holding any semblance of political power was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.