(March 27, 2018 at 12:29 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 27, 2018 at 12:14 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: Of course, people like that exists across the spectrum. Judgmental people are judgmental. I just find it odd that a group such as Trump-supporting evangelicals would shackle themselves to such a person, particularly as it related to the primaries. The man is a scumbag. Why him? Why not Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, or any of the other guys who's values at least align closer to their own? I can understand the general election, with the choice being seeing Hillary elected, or Trump, to them I imagine that staying away from the polls was only a slightly less bad option than voting for Hillary, but the GOP primaries have me baffled.
You and I both, CD. I don't get it. I don't get how he ever got as far as he did in the first place, much less won the primaries.
The one theory I've heard is that a lot of people (those who voted for him in the primaries) were just over the "PC culture", having words like bigot and racist tossed around, being demonized for being more conservative, etc etc. It made an atmosphere of "us verses them". A lot of people felt alienated and just sick of it. And to them, Trump kind of represented the opposite. It was different and new. The "other side" hated him the most, so perhaps conservatives saw it as the biggest eff you to their opposition and kind of a way to get back at them.
I think at the root for many voters in the 2016 election, is that they didn't precisely know what they wanted, but they knew they didn't want what we had. And the two parties were ballsy enough to trot out the idea of Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush as the presumptive candidates.
If ever there was a campaign to abandon the status quo, it was this one, with the most statusy of all possible quo's for candidates. Hence Bernie and Trump. Why not Kasich? Because if you're going to go with Kasich, you might as well have gone with Bush. Oh shit, they don't like Jeb, let's give them someone exactly like Jeb as an alternative.
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To the point of Trump fucking porn stars. You don't need to be black to support civil rights. You don't need to be a woman to support women's rights. You don't need to be a good christian to promote christian issues.
