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marmar

(80,364 posts)
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:20 AM Jun 8

The REAL Reason 77 Million Americans Voted for Trump!



Jun 1, 2026 #ChristianNationalism #Fascism #Trump

Americans are still refusing to admit the real reason this country is facing a fascist takeover.

It wasn’t the economy.
It wasn’t inflation.
It wasn’t affordability.
It wasn’t healthcare.
It wasn’t even democracy.

Those were excuses.

The real engine behind MAGA has always been white supremacy — the fear of losing white dominance, white comfort, white privilege, and white control.

White America keeps gaslighting itself by pretending Trump’s rise was about “economic anxiety” while ignoring the racism, cruelty, misogyny, Christian nationalism, anti-immigrant hatred, attacks on Black history, attacks on voting rights, and open authoritarianism sitting right in front of us.

At some point, the media and white people have to stop dancing around the truth.





MAGA is not just a political movement. It is a white backlash movement.
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The REAL Reason 77 Million Americans Voted for Trump! (Original Post) marmar Jun 8 OP
They voted for an amoral psychotic degenerate knowing he was agingdem Jun 8 #1
If this is true, why did Hillary lose? FakeNoose Jun 8 #2
It is true Dlpger61 Jun 8 #3
The idiots thought tRUMP was gonna put more $ in their wallets wolfie001 Jun 8 #4
They're still pissed off about Pres. Obama Bayard Jun 8 #5
It was about white male patriarchy supremacy DemocracyForever Jun 8 #6
YEP! ABSOLUTELY! BBbats Jun 8 #7
AKA: White Flight? czarjak Jun 8 #8
It's not just the number of white supremacists BaronChocula Jun 8 #9
ABSOLUTELY! ASTUTE... DIRECT..... AND CORRECT! some_of_us_are_sane Jun 8 #10
Misogyny too. The promise that men will be the deciders in marriages. applegrove Jun 9 #11

agingdem

(9,050 posts)
1. They voted for an amoral psychotic degenerate knowing he was
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:29 AM
Jun 8

an amoral psychotic degenerate because he hated who they hated and because he promised to punish their mutual “enemies”…and when we shake our heads and ask how could they not vote in their own best interests (economic impact/affordable healthcare/lower priced food staples)..the answer is simple..they did, in fact, vote in their own best interests.. hate and retribution…

FakeNoose

(42,988 posts)
2. If this is true, why did Hillary lose?
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 10:44 AM
Jun 8

It's not "white supremacy" they care about ...

... it's "white MALE supremacy." The Democratic Party must remember this, whether we subscribe to it or not. We won't get the independent voters back on our side until our candidates are both white and male.

Do I like this? Not one bit. Do I agree? Not at all. But I do see it as apparently nobody else does.

Dlpger61

(87 posts)
3. It is true
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:17 AM
Jun 8

It’s true but you fail to accept it. Why would someone vote for a person that was responsible for the deaths of more than a million people in this country during his first term because of his incompetence and vote him back into office? It’s not an oops my bad situation, it’s because of white supremacy. The problem with white Americans is the were told all of their lives the lie that they were superior to minorities and they really have found out that it was a lie but they continue to disbelieve it because white racist politicians continue to push that narrative.

It’s amazing that you either don’t want to see it or are denying that it’s true.

wolfie001

(8,178 posts)
4. The idiots thought tRUMP was gonna put more $ in their wallets
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:33 AM
Jun 8

They had zero problems with his racism and homophobia. Pure greed. Stupid dumbfucks.

Bayard

(30,646 posts)
5. They're still pissed off about Pres. Obama
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:39 AM
Jun 8

I agree that we better run 2 white men next time, just to make sure we win it.

DemocracyForever

(304 posts)
6. It was about white male patriarchy supremacy
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 11:48 AM
Jun 8

in order to keep everyone who's not a white anglo male "in their place".

BBbats

(318 posts)
7. YEP! ABSOLUTELY!
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 12:31 PM
Jun 8

Last edited Mon Jun 8, 2026, 03:58 PM - Edit history (1)

I've said this over & over.
Some of his supporters get pissed when you say it but that's all it is.
When Obama was President that struck something deep & dark in a lot of people. Including one's I thought were liberal.

BaronChocula

(4,961 posts)
9. It's not just the number of white supremacists
Mon Jun 8, 2026, 02:03 PM
Jun 8

It's also the number of people who are accustomed to giving white males dedicated to the preservation of white male privilege all the passes, all the credit, and none of the blame. Republicans are falsely perceived as better at economic and foreign policy because that's what the image of a room full of white men suggests to a lot of people. Meanwhile, those same people get a little uneasy when they see a room full of women and POC because their minds have been poisoned to doubt a group that looks like that is fully competent. It's the story of America.

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