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I Don’t Think Trump’s Remaining Supporters Realize How Much They Are Despised By Non-MAGA Voters - Above the Law (abovethelaw.com)

submitted 2 days ago by spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Early last week, I was at the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library for its first weekend. At the library itself, despite President Donald Trump inserting himself incongruously into the opening ceremonies, I did not see a single person sporting a Trump-branded clothing item.

The town of Medora, North Dakota, itself was, however, a different story. It wasn’t overwhelming. But for someone who lives in an urban center of a blue state, where even in the ruby red rural areas most people have become sufficiently shamed to shut up about their MAGA tendencies, a single errant MAGA cap is a rarity.

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago

Maybe that’s just the way human civilization works… It has to get really bad for the majority of people before ordinary decent folks are forced into action.

I agree, and I think that's why Project2025 is a thing, and why they're slow-walking the destruction of everything. They're avoiding to, as Admiral Yamamoto once said, "awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve." I think our society still has this kind of backbone and character, but only under sudden and extreme conditions.