>That's one of the biggest predictors of whether someone will support Donald Trump - it may be the biggest predictor - is the belief that America is headed in the wrong direction, the belief that your kids are not going to have a better life than you did.
>And that cynicism really breeds frustration at political elites, but, frankly, that frustration needs to find a better outlet than Donald Trump. And that's why I've made some of the analogies that I have because I don't think that he's going to make the problem better. I think, like you said, he is in some ways a pain reliever. He's someone who makes people feel a little bit better about their problems. But whether he's elected president or not, those problems are still going to be there, and we've got to recognize that.
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>It typically starts with me making a point that I just made, which is, look, maybe Trump is recognizing some legitimate problems. He's talking about the opioid epidemic in a way that nobody else is. But he's not going to fix the problem. You know, better trade deals is not going to make all of these problems just go away.
>And typically my family actually recognizes that. That's what I find so interesting. They don't think that this guy is going to solve all their problems. They just think he's at least trying and he's saying things, primarily to the elites, that they wish they could say themselves. So it's really interesting. There's a recognition that Trump isn't going to solve a lot of these problems, but he's, at the end of the day, the only person really trying to tap into this frustration.
>And it's, you know, I - so my dad is a Trump supporter, and I love my dad, and I always say, Dad, you know, Trump is not going to actually make any of these problems better. And he says, well, that's probably true, but at least he's talking about them and nobody else is and at least he's not Mitt Romney. At least he's not George W. Bush. He's at least trying to talk about these problems.
>And I think it's amazing how low the bar has been set by the political conversation we've had for the past 20 or 30 years that this guy, who many people don't think is going to solve the problems, is still getting a lot of support from people who are blue-collar white folks.
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>I think a big part of it is just the way that Donald Trump conducts himself. A lot of people feel that you can't trust anything Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama say, not because they necessarily lied a lot but because they sound so filtered and they sound so rehearsed. Donald Trump, if nothing else, is relatable to the average working-class American because he speaks off the cuff. He's clearly unfiltered and unrehearsed.
>And there is something relatable about that, even if, you know, half of the things that he says don't make any sense or a quarter of the things that he says are offensive. There's something to be said about relatability.
https://www.npr.org/2016/08/17/490328484/hillbilly-elegy-recalls-a-childhood-where-poverty-was-the-family-tradition
Bernd
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:49:21 GMT
No. 25598823
>>25598902
>>25598930
why is paraguay obsessed with american politics? i can't even name a single significant political figure in your entire history, nor anyone else for that matter. was ivan lendl from your cunt?
Bernd
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 05:22:51 GMT
No. 25598902
That's not really shitting on Trump, though. He's expressing his opinion on why people support Trump in the first place, but he doesn't think that L'Homme Orange is going to magically change the problems America faces like people think he will.
>>25598823
Francisco Solano Lopez is the only one I can think of, and he nearly destroyed the Paraguayan people through a really stupid war.
Bernd
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 05:27:09 GMT
No. 25598918
migatards only want one thing and it's disgusting
Bernd
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 05:30:56 GMT
No. 25598930
SÄGE!
>>25598823
It's a ukrainian zogbot that has been permagigabuttblasted since drumpf won
JD Vance shitting on Trump in 2016
Bernd
Sun, 09 Mar 2025 04:01:45 GMT
No. 25598655
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