Should be required reading for Democrats..
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Many families have given up on being able to afford groceries in this Trump economy. People are getting second and even third jobs just to buy eggs for their loved ones.
Trump's ratings for his inauguration were crap. So exhaustion talk is quite funny to me.
Read 2 paragraphs, felt over the top to me. What's clear is that the last election was a rejection of the direction the Biden admin had us going.
It's sort of like this, fairly simple:
Previous Trump admin left something to be desired, so the people brought Biden in...
Biden admin was bad enough that the people chose to go back to Trump rather than continue down that road.
It's pretty clear, as the article implies, that the majority of Americans are tired of the culture war/identity politics that seemed to infiltrate every aspect of life.
It's sort of like this, fairly simple:
Previous Trump admin left something to be desired, so the people brought Biden in...
Biden admin was bad enough that the people chose to go back to Trump rather than continue down that road.
It's pretty clear, as the article implies, that the majority of Americans are tired of the culture war/identity politics that seemed to infiltrate every aspect of life.
MAGA is on the front of the culture war and identity politics. They are waging the war.
People rejected high grocery prices. That's it. That's what swayed the couple of percent needed for Trump to win.
The MAGA base wants to believe that it is validation of all of their core beliefs and rejection of everything left. All of America is on their side now and rejects the left.
"We won't let those dumb libtard leftists divide us anymore!! All they do is cause division!"
Still have to laugh at the "majority of Americans" rhetoric. Just no.
Trump has been President for less than 48 hours. You can hardly call this his economy. Inflation was at 1.4% when Trump left office in 2020. In May of last year, CPI was up over 19% since the beginning of Biden's term.
The 2024 election was a clear rejection of "Bidenomics." Hell, even the Biden Administration stopped using the term because they knew it didn't work.
It is absolutely his economy. He promised to have everything fixed by now. Instead, we don't even have concepts yet for inflation. If he wants to make all these wild promises, he deserves criticism when those promises fail.
Nobody is fighting a culture war more than MAGA.
Nothing more jaw-dropping than when I hear people claim that Trump, the most hateful and divisive President in my life, is going to “unite” the country.
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That article is a heaping pile of crap, and the author is delusional. Try finding an actual thoughtful article next time.
MAGA didn't start the war, they're simply fighting back, and the majority of Americans agree with a few things they're fighting back on. Trump seized on those few things. For example:
1. Biological boys in girls sports (even majority Dems oppose that)
2. Hiring/promoting/scholarships/etc. based on race/sexual orientation vs. merit - another issue many Dems aren't aligned with.
3. Cancel culture: this is a creation of the far left, and again, most Dems don't want this.
If it were up to the right, people would be gay, trans, whatever and they'd live their lives accordingly, and leave them the eff alone. Instead, once the left started pushing 22 genders on students and requiring them to subscribe to it...That got parents involved who didn't realize what schools were doing, and again, many Dems don't agree with that.
When it comes to the culture war, that's where the election was lost for Dems. Because many within their own party silently didn't support the culture war they started.
And yes, people rejected high grocery prices too.
Should Be Removed From Required Reading List for Republicans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf
Nobody does cancel culture more than conservatives. Nobody uses cultural issues as political fodder more than conservatives.
Ask the Dixie Chix, Budweiser, Colin Kapernick, Disney, and a host of others who is cancelling them. Don’t stand for the National Anthem at a football game and see who comes after you. And who is still fighting against the rights of gays to marry or women to serve in combat?
Conservatis just believe their cancel culture is patriotic.
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It's hilarious to me that you think the Dems invented cancel culture.
Dixie Chicks went from being an extremely popular country band to not being heard on the radio overnight because they criticized a president that *checks notes* is now being criticized by most of his party including the POTUS.
It's completely amazing that the right now pretty much agrees with them but they still can't get back on the radio.
Biden was president for a few days when people started screaming about gas prices and inflation. I guess his policies just work that fast huh?
Inflation rate rose 1300% in 2020 but yeah, that's all on Biden. Inflation rate was around 2.9% before Covid hit and then went negative briefly during the supply chain crunch and then rebounded hard and rose steadily 2020-2022. Yes, inflation happened. Pointing out that it happened doesn't prove your point. We would have experienced the same inflation had Trump managed to steal the 2020 election.
2024 was decided by middle of the road people believing the narratives about grocery prices and that Trump would "fix" them. The narrative of the economy being bad was entirely based on grocery prices. If grocery prices don't fall, then the same logic should apply here although I know that it won't for the MAGAs. It definitely will for the middle of the road people.
3/4 of everything he did on his first day was nothing more than to stick it to "enemies" and take revenge on people. But he's "uniting" us. Yeah, by trying to eliminate anyone that he doesn't like.
Grocery prices will increase over the next 4 years but no one will look at Trump and blame him. It's just fricken amazing how he is never held accountable for anything. I mean, what, you think 25% tariffs aren't going to impact winter crops?
LOL ok. Cons have been firing shots for decades. Rush Limbaugh, Faux News, Tucker, Alex Jones etc.... all exist(ed) to whine about the left. Us vs them rhetoric. Good vs evil nonsense. THEY want to take away your rights. THEY want grown men to use bathrooms with little girls. THEY want to come take all of your guns. THEY want to murder babies. Fighting back. Please.
Cancel culture has been fully embraced and championed by the right and has also been in practice for decades. Remember the Dixie Chicks? Cons just think it's ok when they do it.
Go review Biden and Kamala campaign speeches. Find any references to trans or DEI. Apparently they were constantly pushing it so you should be able to find many examples.
These are fringe issues that Trump made front and center as if they were the cornerstones of the democrat campaigns. DEI is also grossly mispreresented. It's like MAGA views reality through a funhouse mirror. Trump is a master at creating and controlling narratives and he has a very receptive fan base.
Grip this...cling to it as though your life depends on it...it's ALL you have! 🤣
His main promises were inflation and ending all wars. Sure trans attacks were part of it. But he promised over and over prices would come down, energy would be cut in half, and all the wars would end by day one.
Not sure why you can't hold him accountable for these claims?
With the right controlling pretty much all media the Democrats have been unable to communicate what they are actually doing to large swaths of the population. I don't know how they can fight that either. Most people aren't even interested in hearing about how massive tax cuts 6 years ago contributed to runaway inflation in 2021. They want the reality TV dopamine of talking about trans people.
You really are the dumbest ass on HROT and that's saying something, right, Chis?! 🤡 🤡
The first people calling for actors to lose work, people to lose their jobs, or people to show up at strangers houses and harass them were on the left.
That's why I assign blame their. They did it first en masse, and probably first overall.
Cancel culture didn't start with the Dixie chicks...
do you believe everything Faux “News” tells you to believe? Or do you just make up your own “alternative facts”?
Don't watch Fox News, watch NewsNation. MSNBC has rotted your brain.
Ya, you are probably correct. The Republican belief and value system has been the basic standard in the western world for a 1,000 years but the left's trying to deny sexuality, decency, normalize killing babies and denying religion is not causing any friction at all.
Where do you think it started than?
Because most of the cancel culture now is the result of internet lynch mobs. The Dixie Chicks being kicked off the radio took place long before that was popular.
I for the record am not arguing that the left doesn't participate in cancel culture. I'm arguing that the right does it too and furthermore are guilty of it's first instances.
This would have been a pretty good assessment as long as you realize the "culture war/identity politics" isn't unique to one "team." If you follow politics until you die, this is the new norm and how everyone will operate. It won't change no matter who is in office.
The Dixie chicks thing happened in 2003. Cancel culture didn't happen for real until the 2010s. Social media didn't exist in 2003. Boycotts have been around for decades, and prior to social media, that's all it was.
Facebook wasnt even founded until 2004, and wasn't really a thing until a couple years later. Let alone Twitter and all the others that really accelerated cancel culture. In the 00's, people could still just disagree without disowning each other. Fortunately I think we're headed back that way... eventually.
Explain to me how the Dixie Chicks was not cancel culture just without social media??? It's not that they got boycotted, the radio stations all got together and agreed to stop playing them they did this within days of their comments (which btw are now widely agreed upon by Republicans) so it wasn't like the radio stations stopped playing them in response to declining sales. They were blacklisted first.
You don't need social media to have cancel culture. Social media just makes it easier by amplifying certain voices. But it can be done and has been done without it. And it was generally done by conservatives.
Conservatives just got mad because liberals took a page from their playbook.
The Chicks (mainly Natalie) got into deep doo doo because they went over to Europe for a concert tour and out of the blue Natalie decided to start talking 💩💩about President Bush in between songs. She supremely pissed off her core audience of Texans who then decided to dump the group and boycott them.
I was living in TX at the time and believe me it was a HUGE deal. People said hey it’s one thing to talk 💩 about him at a concert in Austin but if you do it overseas you take your chances at the reaction back home. This was right before social media was a huge thing,
The other two were taken by surprise and the group broke up not all that long after. It’s a shame because they were talented as hell.
Just shut up and sing!
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