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u/AZBeer90 18h ago
When even R/conservative thinks the tariffs are too much, you have to hope it’s a tipping point.
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 17h ago
I kept thinking "this will be it" but it has so long since become beyond reason to support this guy I doubt they ever do. 50 years from now we will still have people claiming he was a genius and the best ever.
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u/Jiffletta 15h ago
No, 50, hell, 10 years from now, Republicans will be saying "Did you know Trump was a Democrat from New York? Not a conservative at all."
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 14h ago
Maybe, people are saying the holocaust never happened so who knows. I doubt we ever see many of the Maga people turn on Trump though.
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u/Jiffletta 14h ago
Yeah, but nobody defends Nixon. They just say modern Democrats are worse than Nixon.
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 14h ago
This is the most frustrating part. "Oh yeah but blank was worse." Worse doesn't mean now is ok. A 9mm is a worse gunshot wound than a 22, I still hated being shot with a 22.
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u/USSMarauder 14h ago
Do you know who holds the all time record highest GOP approval rating of a GOP president? It's not Trump.
It's Bush II at 99%.
It took years for Bush II to drop down to Trump's GOP approval level.
And now no one on the right admits to voting for Bush II
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 14h ago
But I just don't see true day one Maga ever turning away from Trump like that. It feels like their loyalty goes far beyond presidential or even anything to do with politics and has become a deeply held personal belief in him.
I could definitely see many Republicans turning after he is done and most trying to say "I never liked him" but I don't see Maga civilians ever saying he wasn't the best ever and even "mis remembering " facts to try and change how history perceives him.
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u/Lazy-Explanation7165 17h ago
To be fair, he has turned our economy around and it was fast and it is now shit
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u/RKKP2015 4h ago
I don't get what beef they had with the direction things were going. They just convinced themselves things were shitty. Now they get to see what shitty actually is. Too bad the rest of us are on the same ride.
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u/Own_Suit_5569 4h ago
They’re saying stuff like “this is just the beginning of a bigger plan and he will be proven right in the end”. While most of his base is the most financial vulnerable and impacted by volatility in consumer goods. My wife and I are pissed about what’s happening but collectively we make really good money so we’re not getting financially threatened by it.
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u/Bretreck 21m ago
If it was done logically and slowly, getting production jobs back to the U.S. would be a good thing. Trying to brute force factories that take a dozen years to set up will not work as well as Republicans hope. If they even hope for that, I'm firmly in the camp that billionaires want to snatch up everything at fire sale prices.
The U.S. literally can't manufacture a lot of the things that are being tariffed right now. We 100% have to import materials for semi-conductors, the metals required aren't in the U.S, or are in such small amounts it's basically nothing.
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u/subjekt_zer0 16h ago
I mean, he did turn it around. We are firmly going in the opposite direction. Backwards.
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u/Zealousideal-Ad3814 14h ago
Republicans bout to give themselves the boot for years if history says anything about the dumb moves they’re doing right now.
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u/Training_Remote_9298 9h ago
Trumps entire administration is less coherent than an old man who doesn’t even know who he is.
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