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'MAGA In A Nutshell': Voter's Wild Explanation For Backing Trump Goes ViralThe mans quote was included in an article by The Philadelphia Inquirer that explored how the president-elect, buoyed by voters economic anxieties, won Pennsylvania despite being called a fascist.
The excerpt that went viral on social media read:
In Scranton on Wednesday, Matt Wolfson, a 45-year-old former construction worker, looked around at poverty in the Rust Belt city and thought the nation needed a change in leadership.
Wolfson said he didnt love the dictatorial aspect of Trumps personality, but thought it could help keep the country out of wars and maybe bring peace to some other conflicts, including in Ukraine.
Hes good and bad. People say hes a dictator. I believe that. I consider him like Hitler, Wolfson said. But I voted for the man.
During the campaign, Trump was compared to Adolf Hitler, who started World War II by invading Poland. Trump used similar rhetoric to that of the Nazi dictator, calling opponents vermin and claiming that undocumented immigrants are poisoning the blood of our country.
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Blue_Tires
(55,846 posts)I really wish I could introduce the Republicans of today to the Republicans I've known from 1980-2016... Because I remember what they were calling me when I spoke out against the first Gulf War, the second Gulf War, and the GWOT.
But Wolfson is evading the real answer here, which is he just felt more secure with a white man running things instead of a black woman. Doesn't even matter that he's totally incompetent... or a criminal... or a despot... or that he's functionally illiterate... or a Nazi.
ShazzieB
(18,675 posts)He has a penis! What better qualification could there possibly be?
tanyev
(44,517 posts)a guy who hardly ever posts anything political. He loves the Department of Government Efficiency. Dont know if Ill like all the changes, but we really need this.
*smh*
prodigitalson
(2,884 posts)that is just hardcore stupid, right there
Walleye
(35,678 posts)Very efficient but very destructive, there arent any left for the year after that. Efficient isnt always the best way to do something in fact quite often its the worst. Efficiency is a fascist concept. IMO
They didnt just reject the woman candidate, they rejected all of the things most women value.
Permanut
(6,639 posts)fought to defeat Hitler; many were injured and many died to rid the world of this menace.
I've never said this on DU, but go to Hell, Mr. Wolfson.
Emrys
(7,944 posts)LoisB
(8,675 posts)Skittles
(159,374 posts)MAGAts are A-OK with fascism
djacq
(1,665 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(10,528 posts)EnergizedLib
(2,187 posts)That I have no interest in unity with this.
paleotn
(19,189 posts)Sure there was bad stuff....but....
Who knew Idiocracy was a documentary. And the people who will get fucked first and hardest.....45 year old former construction workers...former....as in he more than likely lives off the government dole. Bend over big boy, this one's gonna hurt! Remember, you brought this on yourself.
AZLD4Candidate
(6,285 posts)lapfog_1
(30,168 posts)it was mostly propaganda.
paleotn
(19,189 posts)Justice matters.
(7,518 posts)I am absolutely certain he doesn't know any Bill killed by his "new leadership" cons in Congress, like the Child Tax Credit, and he has zero idea how poverty will get astronomically worse when they will kill the ACA, deport millions of workers and inflation will skyrocket with 20% tariffs on all imports...
Billionaires will keep on getting wealthier, though, probably like they never did before.
The ignorance in the USA is winning, not the 99%.
Fish700
(98 posts)Biophilic
(4,744 posts)I dont know whether its lack of moral upbringing, poor teaching of history in school, inability to problem solve and think critically, or just plain stupidity. Some where this country failed its people and now its people have failed the country.
Farmer-Rick
(11,416 posts)He voted for the man.
Because a woman president is far worse than a dictator or another Hitler.
Dem4life1970
(432 posts)AZLD4Candidate
(6,285 posts)Same shit, different asshole.
Demobrat
(9,800 posts)What does he do now? Collect disability? Live off his moms social security? Bet hes not too disabled to hang around the pool hall all day. Dont worry, guy, theyll get around to you.
ancianita
(38,580 posts)Deminpenn
(16,317 posts)There is a true sense of being left behind in towns like mine and where this guy lives. I know I feel it. It's so exhausting having to compete for limited grants because the tax base isn't there to generate revenue from property taxes and businesses regularly win property tax assessment disputes that lower their taxes. Schools are chronically underfunded that is exacerbated by having to make payments to charter schools. Because there's no really good jobs or much to do, smart young people leave for greener pastures and aren't replaced. That's a formula for continued decline, not for growth or sustainability. Ironically, these are exactly the problems Bidenomics is addressing, but long term structural problems aren't solved overnight.
My home town has taken a few small steps forward, but it has taken Herculean efforts by the mayor, City council and a couple extraordinarily dedicated members of our community development corporation to pull even those small gains off.
I know Trump isn't the answer, but plenty of voters thought like this guy.
I don't know, maybe a better strategy would've been to run on Bidenomics. Maybe it would've been to Harris like fixing I95 in two weeks like Shapiro did was to him. Voters would've seen government work, not just be some abstract thing that has no impact on their daily lives.
Liberal In Texas
(14,497 posts)you're going to have cheaper gas (maybe.... he probably lied about that too.)
Demobrat
(9,800 posts)overtime pay, sick leave, workmans compensation, health insurance, and just about everything else that makes it possible for the poorly educated to eke out a living.
Its DoorDash for you, young man. Arent you glad gas is cheap?
Liberal In Texas
(14,497 posts)tariffs will drive up the cost of clothing and anything made offshore and since the migrants have been deported that worked in agriculture your food will also start costing even more than twice as much.
As least your gas is cheap(er) but you probably won't be shopping all that often anyway.
mahina
(18,942 posts)for them and how lucky they are to be American.
May wisdom prevail.
Rough.