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A look at the poor people who think Trump will help them

Today the Washington Post profiles New Castle, Pennsylvania, a desperately poor town where a quarter of all families live in poverty. But most of them voted for Donald Trump anyway even though they depend on welfare benefits that Republicans have long wanted to cut back. Some quotes:

Lori Mosura: “He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” Mosura, 55, said on a recent afternoon. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.

Steve Tillia: “It’s not cutting government programs, it’s cutting the amount of people needed to run a program,” he said. “They are cutting staff, which could actually increase the amount of the programs that we get.

Dawn Simmons: Trump’s decisions may even lead to enhanced benefits in the coming years because he plans to “put Americans first.”

Kathy Davis: Asked whether she worries that Trump’s agenda could hurt the poor, Davis said the incoming president is “too smart for that. You can’t wipe out half of the population” of New Castle, Davis said. “We are old and tired and just want to be taken care of, and Trump has too much common sense, so I don’t think he is going to do anything to hurt us.

The delusion here is painful. It's on Democrats that so many people have apparently given up on them, but I still wonder what they could have done. Joe Biden increased food stamp benefits permanently by nearly $200 after inflation. He cut the poverty rate from Trump's first-term average of 11.1% to 10.1% in 2023. He made Obamacare cheaper for everyone. Even after the recent unwinding, he's expanded the Medicaid rolls by 8.3 million. SSI benefits went up 22%—more than inflation. He wrote generous stimulus checks at the height of the pandemic against united Republican opposition.

But as near as I can tell, the SNAP increase is practically a state secret. The stimulus checks didn't have Biden's signature on them. And the child tax credit and other pandemic lifelines went away after the pandemic was over. So lots of poor people think Democrats did nothing for them.

Part of the reason for this is that Democrats are reluctant to tout their safety net accomplishments because they're afraid it will turn off working class voters. They might be right. But it sure hits them in the gut when even the beneficiaries of their programs don't believe they've gotten anything from them.

115 thoughts on “A look at the poor people who think Trump will help them

    1. J. Frank Parnell

      I'm not for anyone dying, but it does seem these people need to experience some the "pain and sacrifice" that co-president Musk says is coming.

      1. OldGuyInTheClub

        I'm fully in touch with my inner Scrooge 1.0. Let 'em die and decrease the surplus population. Any pain and/or sacrifice will be blamed on the Democrats and these skidmarks will believe it.

    2. JohnH

      Gloating is fun, but do you seriously think that Trump's policies won't apply to us, too? I'm saddened and scared.

      But I have to admit that the polarization in voters by education has me wondering after this post if it really is just a matter of who can be scammed.

      1. OldGuyInTheClub

        Who is gloating? I am quite concerned for the rest of us. But, at some point one has to concede that the sub-room temperature (in Celsius) IQ contingent needs to be culled from the herd.

      2. J. Frank Parnell

        Not gloating. I expect to be hurt, but as a retired upper middle class white male in a solidly blue state I expect I will do a lot better than the sad deplorables in New Castle.

    3. Jasper_in_Boston

      Let 'em suffer and die. I'm long out of give-a-damn for these yokels.

      Unfortunately plenty of Harris voters will also be hurt, as well as plenty of innocent third parties around the world.

      I want to continue to remind people though, that Democrats had bested Republicans three elections in a row prior to November, and they held the GOP to one of the narrowest wins (both by popular vote margin and House seats) in US history.

      The loss feels terrible in light of whom it has installed in the White House, agreed! But if we can but look at it in context, this is very far from some kind of crushing, realignment victory for Republicans. Trump's legislative margin is basically non-existent: that alone will limit the damage. He's already facing a lot of pushback from his own party. The macroeconomy isn't going to let him do what he wants without imposing very steep political costs. And it will take a miracle for the GOP to prevent the House from flipping 22 months from now.

  1. painedumonde

    This is the psychology messaging war that the Democrats are winning with the college educated, middle class but are tanking with the vibes in the working and lower class.

    Some decent nuts and bolts delivered without a peep or with raised nose? Or the media is owned by those hostile to the safety net? Or there is a complete disconnect with the receiver and the transmission?

    Yes.

    1. golack

      Bite the hand that feeds you...

      The working poor need these programs to stay out of poverty, but if you tell them that they are not doing well so you'll help them, it makes them feel like failures. And the "means" testing for some of them can make them feel even worse.

      Things like the refundable tax credit for children was very popular--and cutting that program hurt Biden. But that was presented as everyone needs help raising kids and deserves this money, not as a you failed, therefore we have to help you.

      HRC had the problem with autoworkers voting for Trump. Ask why, when the Obama administration bailed out the auto industry and saved their jobs, the response was because Trump made us feel proud.

      1. painedumonde

        It is fundamental psychology. Just a question of framing it. But with the bedrock axioms of culture and ideas about economics in this country, there is no way you can convince them that it isn't socialism with communism just around the corner; we must all suffer another Great Depression again before any steps in that direction are taken.

      2. Anandakos

        It wasn't Biden's decision to "cut that program" -- the Refundable CTC. Democrats lost the House in 2022 and Republicans refused to extend it, because "the 'refundability' makes it a welfare program".

        1. spatrick

          The ultimate blame goes to certain former U S Senator from West Virginia who thought people in his state, the very kind of people mentioned in this article, won't use such benefits for drugs or hunting gear. When you have people like that your party alongside those who want to expand the CTC, who are voters supposed to believe represent the party, hmm? That's why as a party the Dems can't "message" their way out of their problems unless there is an unpopular GOP President or policy that all factions in party oppose

          1. emjayay

            Did you mean "will use such benefits...." Because that's something like what I think he said, hard as that may be to believe.

    2. bethby30

      I agree with Dan Froomkin that our Chicken Little mainstream media is mostly to blame.

      https://criticalread.substack.com/p/i-blame-the-media

      When Dems tried to talks about Biden’s amazing, journalists accused them of being insensitive to the struggles of the working class - the people that Trump has no qualms about crushing. That criticism deliberately derailed Democrats’ messaging. Of course the media put the blame on them, not themselves.

      Today I listened to Lawrence O’Donnell’s 12/24 interview with Pete Buttigieg about all the projects Biden got created. Coincidentally right before that I listened to the recent Pitchfork Economics podcast interview with Biden about the same topic. It was amazing to listen to that senile old man discuss in depth his philosophy and programs. The comparison to Trump’s deranged rants was stark.

      1. spatrick

        Dave Weigel pointed out something on Twitter I thought insightful: Whenever Biden went around the country speaking about the Administration,'s accomplishments, there was more focus on the slow way he was walking than anything he said. Voters picked up on that. Thus the President's age made it almost impossible for any kind of message to break through.

  2. BigFish

    My favorite quote was from the guy who says, "The Bible says God helps those who help themselves." The Bible says no such thing; in fact, it says the exact opposite: God helps the helpless.

    You know who DID says "God helps those who help themselves." ? Ben Franklin. And he was quoting some other guy.

      1. J. Frank Parnell

        Franklin was a secularist. He was the one who edited Thomas Jefferson's words ""We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable" to ""We hold these truths to be self-evident".

    1. Salamander

      I thought it was from Aesop's fables, and was "the gods help those who help themselves." Aesop predates old Ben by a few years, although they were probably contemporaries, and Joe Biden learned the fables at Aesop's knee.

    2. JohnH

      Nor to is credit was Franklin a fringe libertarian saying that losers get what they deserve. Fatuous as it may be, he was just enough of a moralist to tell us to work hard.

  3. gVOR08

    “It's on Democrats that so many people have apparently given up on them, but I still wonder what they could have done.” You then list Dem policy benefitting these people. Governing is about policy. Elections are about entertainment. And Trump is entertaining.

    1. Marlowe

      No surprise that Drum is parroting this CW bromide. No, the fault is primarily on stupid and supremely ignorant voters like the ones described here. With a big assist to the prestige media who have been unrelenting negative in their coverage of Democrats for decades.

    2. Gary Goldberg

      This. Republicans promise/lie the world to get into office using all the feels, and then do what they want. Democrats should stop talking policy, do all the feels stuff, and once elected do what they want, the policy. Got to get power to use it.

  4. Austin

    “We are… tired and just want to be taken care of” says all the people on welfare too. And all the people who had a natural disaster or a layoff or a medical problem or whatever expensive bad thing happened to them.

    Only difference here I guess is that Kathy is old as well, so that’s a free pass for collecting money from the government guilt-free I guess?

    The lack of self awareness here is infuriating. Hope they get exactly what they voted for, good and hard.

    1. CAbornandbred

      I see some serious FAFO coming those who voted for Trump. Of course you need a functioning brain to notice, so they won't ever know or understand the truth. But they are going to be hurt - bad.

    2. JohnH

      Over at The New Republic, Michael Tomasky interviews the authors of How Democracies Di, and this quote sticks with me: "I could not have imagined in 2017 a future in which Trump would govern as he governed and then win the popular vote in 2024." Draw what conclusions you will.

      They add that people vote "expressively" to air their frustrations, which has real insight.

  5. D_Ohrk_E1

    The one thing Trump does better than almost any other politician from any political affiliation is being a lot lizard salesman. But he's also supported by a cast of liars who've created this alternate reality echo chamber, selling people on a thingamajig that will cut off their hands.

    You have to let these people find out that this thingamajig will cut off their hands before they internalize the error they made. Granted, some will believe that Democrats must have intercepted the thingamajig and hacked it, but those are the same people who end up dying sooner than later or otherwise permanently disabled.

    1. Austin

      Some children will not listen to wise advice from others, and need to actually touch the hot stove to learn that it burns. Some adults apparently never left childhood. Democrats need to let them get burned, and maybe some of them will learn a lesson.

      1. Josef

        Not exactly on topic but I'm reminded of a George Carlin quote, "Tell people there's an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure."

    2. JohnH

      Forget the triumphalism. As they say, some people never learn. Don't call for suffering. It just debases the intelligence that much further. Rather call for the MSM to translate something as wonderful as Bidenomics into the terms it has earned of accomplishment and hope.

      1. D_Ohrk_E1

        Recall KD's recent post about Republicans' low trust in the MSM. Breaking through the echo chamber requires something different than what has proven ineffective for the last 20+ years.

  6. n1cholas

    Republican voters have been fucking around for 40+ years, and the only thing that is going to change their minds is letting them find the fuck out.

    I am 100% OK with this.

    1. J. Frank Parnell

      Republican Herbert Hoover's manafest inability to deal with the great depression caused suffering for millions, but it resulted in nearly 50 years of Democratic dominance.

      1. n1cholas

        Breaking eggs to make omelets.

        Or, in this case, Humpty Dumpty throws himself off a wall to own the libs and other eggmen come behind him and put up a wall on the top of the wall to stop future Humpty Dumptys.

    1. JohnH

      That's what worried me, too. It's not just that some people's understanding has failed. It's that disinformation has succeeded.

  7. Marlowe

    The most appropriate comment I could make is to quote my favorite line from the great character actor Strother Martin: "Morons. I've got morons on my team."

    (While Martin's most famous line, of course, is from Cool Hand Luke, I like this one from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid a bit more and use it often. Martin played the owner of the Bolivian mine who hired Butch and Sundance as payroll guards during their extremely brief attempt to go straight. Both lines are addressed to, or said about, Paul Newman.)

    1. Batchman

      And that most famous line is almost always misquoted. It's "What we've got here is failure to communicate," not "... a failure to communicate." Of course, it's the original movie promotion that's responsible for the misquote.

      1. DudePlayingDudeDisguisedAsAnotherDude

        Although, at the end, Luke steps out of the barn and yells at the guards: "what we've got here is *a* failure to communicate".

  8. Goosedat

    The Mighty Wurlitzer of subjectivity is solely focused on justifying wars, genocide, and austerity. Publicizing spending on social welfare reveals it inadequacy to provide universal healthcare and solve problems like homelessness but also arouses resentment from reactionary subjects the beneficiaries are unworthy. Democrats are more enthusiastic about the accomplishments revealed in Biden's War Powers Report to Congress.

  9. Adam Strange

    People believe what they want to believe, regardless of the facts.

    Somehow, I'm reminded of the guys, whose death warrants Stalin signed, going to the firing squad and loudly insisting that Stalin would save them if only he knew what was going on.

    The person in my life who is my moral arbiter (an ISFP) would hate to hear me say this, but do you really want these guys on your team?
    Even the Bible says that not everyone can be saved.

    1. Altoid

      100%. One of trump's superpowers that I haven't seen any comment about is that he sprays out so much BS in so many different directions that almost anyone can find something that sounds like it could make sense, or repeats a grievance they have, or in just about any way at all would be something they could agree with or hook onto. It's a pitchman's tactic, and he's a pitchman if he's anything; he could have been hawking Ronco, or Ginsu knives if he had the manual dexterity for it-- same "but wait, there's more" line of patter.

      Between that, the super-businessman cartoon created by Mark Burnett (aka George III's revenge), and Fox's incessant lying about Dems, these people can dream up any version of trump they want to and then believe it.

      1. Salamander

        Like +10! Highly educated elitists, like the rest of us, sneer at the "word salads" tossed out by folks like the Felon and Sara Palin, as lacking in "coherency" and "logical consistency."

        Their flocks don't care about those things! They just pick out the tasty nuggets that they like best and swallow them whole.

    2. JohnH

      You heard "if Stalin only knew" and before that "if the tsar only knew." Putin's doing better with the Russian public, if not quite so great, today. Loss of democracy brings only less democracy. Let's hope we can still fight against that.

    3. J. Frank Parnell

      I always think of the eldly dowager in her East Prussian estate who in the spring of 1945 had a soldier knock on her door and tell her to evacuate, as the Soviet Army would be there within 24 hours. Her reply? "Oh no, the fuhrer would never allow that to happen".

  10. Dana Decker

    KD: "It's on Democrats that so many people have apparently given up on them, but I still wonder what they could have done."

    Destroy Fox News. Unilaterally, as a party, refuse to engage with media outlets that have any relationship w F.N. Refuse to engage with any politician or official that has any interaction with Fox News (interviews, etc). First words out of D's mouth "Of course you know Fox News will lie about this just like they did about the election", no matter what the issue is.

    Repeat. Repeat. Repeat until everyone is sick of the mantra. Be relentless. Be Roy Cohn. It's ugly, but it would work to sideline Fox. Ultimate goal is permanent opprobrium attached to this rancid, tabloid, hysteria machine.

    Fox News is poison. Treat it as such.

  11. Justin

    They really are not worthy of my compassion, concern or charity. If the social safety net and benefits fail to garner political support of the beneficiaries, then perhaps it is time to let republicans cut them.

    And that child tax credit was an awful idea. No one cared to defend it.

    1. Salamander

      Well, come on, Juss. NOBODY is worthy of your "compassion, concern, or charity", as you have asserted many times. Big whoop.

      1. Justin

        That’s because they’ve established that they are an enemy. Via TPM.

        https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/confronting-hate/phil-williams-in-reporting-on-hate-and-extremism-while-the-attacks-are-personal-so-is-the-cause

        NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Rarely in my nearly 40-year career as a journalist have I felt the target on my back as continuously and intensely as I have in the last 15 months. Frankly, those are words that I hesitated to type. After all, we live in a time when some of the subjects of my investigations want me to feel that pressure. They want me to be intimidated. They want me to be afraid.

  12. Doctor Jay

    The time is going to be ripe soon for a Democratic tide. It will have to be one that doesn't tweak the margins, though. And it will have to be articulated in a way that connects to non-college-educated Americans.

    This is possible. Bernie Sanders did it. Someone else will be able to do it. Bernie isn't a unicorn.

    1. Justin

      Why do you want to connect with them? They hate democrats. They will always hate democrats. They tell us this every day. There is no constituency for this agenda.

      1. Doctor Jay

        The people Bernie didn't win were the highly educated people. People like me. I don't regret it, but we are in a different situation now.

        Bernie brought in quite a few people who aren't traditional Democrats. People like Joe Rogan.

        We need more votes, right? Where are we supposed to get them?

        I mean, if we lean into intellectualism, we will go the way of Adlai Stevenson.

          1. Doctor Jay

            Well, I think you are taking me a bit too literally. I am saying we need someone who communicates like Bernie Sanders. Not that we need specifically Bernie.

            We definitely need someone who doesn't sound like a lawyer, or a scientist.

  13. ronp

    someone said the other day we need a vulgar democrat to reach the poor and working class, they respond to coarse earthiness and not college educated niceness.

    i am not sure how to pull that off and not make people like me really annoyed with the Dem candidate.

  14. Josef

    "It's on Democrats that so many people have apparently given up on them..." Is it? How can you persuade people who say things like "...Trump has too much common sense, so I don’t think he is going to do anything to hurt us.” and "“He is more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich,” Mosura, 55, said on a recent afternoon. “I think he knows it’s the poor people that got him elected, so I think Trump is going to do more to help us.”? You can't. Delusions like this are impossible to argue with. Their idea of who Trump is is nothing like what he really is. I'd like to think they'll realize this sooner or later, but delusions this strong aren't easily broken.

  15. FrankM

    This is really nothing new:

    1. When times are good, people take it for granted and vote for Republicans
    2. Republicans promptly fuck everything up, and people vote for Democrats to fix it.
    3. Rinse and repeat.

  16. Srho

    When someone shows this to DJT, what's he thinking?
    1) Hehe. Got 'em!
    or 2) Yes, I really am attuned to the needs of everyone and not just the rich. She really gets me.

  17. Ugly Moe

    Not too many democrats bothered to back Bidenomics as I recall. We have a co-president dork-splaining why we need to support the AFB in Germany out there, for God sakes, and meanwhile it is naval-gazing time and moving to the right talk in the white towers.

    Maybe act like a party sometimes and defend your ideas and policies, especially when they have tangible benefits for people?

  18. cld

    So many here in favor of letting these idiots get it good and hard. But these idiots will never get it. However hard it gets it will only justify their resentment of anyone they think isn't getting it as hard as they are, and then they'll vote for whoever gives them confidence in their opinion, especially someone who sounds as informed as they are and whose detailed thought is mostly insult and vulgarity.

    Democrats need to run against Republicans, against who they are and against the people who vote for them, and for that they need a dedicated house organ, and MSNBC isn't it. MSNBC just plays to the choir and sets itself up to alienate half the people Democrats need to reach.

    1. spatrick

      My concern is Trump skates by in a second term being more popular than his own Administration ala Eisenhower or Reagan. That's a possibility as this article points out. But he barely won both times he has done so and his popularity was never more than 45 percent during his first term. So there is hope that if these unpopular policies are enacted, the economy tanks and people get hurt, it will affect how people view, at least those who can be persuaded and damage the whole even if it doesn't damage him. Just remember though the basis of his support goes a lot deeper than just budget line items. If you're not convinced by this article of that then I don't know what to tell you. The policies enacted by the Biden Administration were done politically to change this dynamic but that has failed and thus only a damaging GOP Administration can change the political calculus.

      1. jambo

        I don’t remember who said it but this rings true: “Republicans campaign against Democrats, while Democrats campaign for policies.” It’s pretty clear which is more effective.

    2. emjayay

      Not that they are watching/listening, but I find the Bulwark (YT, Substack, podcast etc.) to be an interesting source of analysis these days. How smart funny denim and pearls wearing gay guy Tim Miller or any of the rest of them could possibly have been Republicans is baffling, but there it is.

  19. jdubs

    Same old story.

    Americans generally favor a brand and deep social safety net.
    Americans fear and look down on the brown people and the foreigners.
    This fear and loathing of others is stronger than the support for government programs.

    So we end up cutting social programs to fight the never ending culture war on the Others.

    rinse and repeat

  20. DarkBrandon

    "Part of the reason for this is that Democrats are reluctant to tout their safety net accomplishments because they're afraid it will turn off working class voters."

    I didn't notice any hesitancy to tout student loan forgiveness, which doesn't strike me as something which excites Rust Belt workers without college degrees.

    I have no explanation for the stupidity of these people beyond the monopoly that Fox and AM hate radio have in methland, and the inexplicable identification with Trump as "one of us."

    Trump is sui generis - there won't be another such figure for decades. The problem is surviving another decade or so of his bullshit.

    1. spatrick

      It's the fact he's not a politician that it his biggest selling points. I once worked for Pat Buchanan and Pat was the saying the exact same things as Trump was. So why didn't we get a President Buchanan? Yes, the times were different but the reality was Pat's association with the Nixon and Reagan administrations tainted him in many voters' eyes. Pat practically begged for a Teamsters endorsement, never got it. Trump, while not endorsed, instead got their neutrality, just as good. Why? I think the fact that he wasn't an office holder before he ran President and didn't act like one or say things like one is his biggest selling point. In an age of anti-politics, Trump sells to people, especially to those not plugged into the day-to-day minutiae of government. That certainly doesn't help the party of government at all and only Trump's fuck-ups can change the situation as it did in 2020, otherwise he would have been re-elected in my opinion.

      1. KenSchulz

        Yes, but the ‘outsider’ identity only worked because of the relentless, multi-decade propaganda campaign of the Republican Party to destroy trust in the government, with its allies in the tobacco and fossil-fuel industries fomenting mistrust in science and medicine, and eventually attacking expertise of all kinds.
        This was not countered with better educations in civics, and in critical thinking.

    2. emjayay

      Biden's tries at untargeted college loan forgiveness, plus waiting three years to do whatever it was he did with the southern border were both baffling to me.

      Although of course no one noticed but Obama did something with college loans, particularly to for-profit "colleges" which should not even be a thing that was far better. And it caused most of them to quickly fold.

    3. bouncing_b

      Trump is sui generis - there won't be another such figure for decades.
      Loss of good comments here, but this is what will actually save us.

      None of those other doofuses (Desantis, Hawley, Vance,...) have Trump's ability to read a crowd and respond to take advantage of it. To hold a crowd in the palm of his hand and sense what they want to hear, and since he knows and cares nothing about policy he's willing to say anything.
      It's a special talent and those other guys look phony as hell when they try to duplicate it.
      Trump will be 82 and declining in 2028. Losing Congress in 2026 will probably be the end of his road.
      I'd like to agree with the many good ideas above for Democrats to seize the initiative, but I'm afraid it's just going to take Trump's decline - with no capable successor - to break this fever.

  21. D_Ohrk_E1

    What if the global phenomenon of incumbent governments being rejected is actually an omen that the world is reaching the end of post-capitalism, and Trump and Musk are just part of the last desperate gasp before the end?

    And what if crypto-currencies and AI are what's driving us into the end of post-capitalism?

    And what if the straw that broke the camel's back is one adverse climate change event?

    Just some food for thought.

  22. spatrick

    My concern is Trump skates by in a second term being more popular than his own Administration ala Eisenhower or Reagan. That's a possibility as this article points out. But he barely won both times he has done so and his popularity was never more than 45 percent during his first term. So there is hope that if these unpopular policies are enacted, the economy tanks and people get hurt, it will affect how people view, at least those who can be persuaded and damage the whole even if it doesn't damage him. Just remember though the basis of his support goes a lot deeper than just budget line items. If you're not convinced by this article of that then I don't know what to tell you. The policies enacted by the Biden Administration were done politically to change this dynamic but that has failed and thus only a damaging GOP Administration can change the political calculus.

    1. emjayay

      As some Bulark guy pointed out Trump took credit for the Obama economy and he will take credit for the Biden economy including all the infrastucture stuff which of course takes a few years to happen and Republicans who voted against it are already taking credit for whatever it does in their district and will continue to do.

  23. jte21

    They hear "Fuck immigrants and trans people!" and think "I'm gonna help poor white people!"

    These people are so goddamn fleecable, your head spins.

  24. tomob

    this prompts me to ask a question that I asked myself so many times: why did these people _really_ vote for Trump. nothing Trump says or does supports the beliefs they express. but they want to believe it very badly. what is motivating that reasoning I just wonder. probably version of cognitive dissonance but I still can't figure it out

    1. Falconer

      Racism...

      He gives them permission to say out loud what they really think, and he's going to keep the negroes in their place.

  25. Solar

    "It's on Democrats that so many people have apparently given up on them"

    Nah, some people are just morons completely unreachable by any kind of message, policy, or fact. Each one of these idiots deserves every bit of pain and suffering Trump inflicts on them. The only downside is that because of their stupidity, the pain and suffering will be inflicted on everyone and not just them.

  26. iamr4man

    I’ve seen enough of articles like this one to (almost) believe they are done deliberately to dishearten liberals. I’ve even seen interviews with people who are here illegally who say they support Trump and think he isn’t talking about them when he talks about deporting illegals. I know that after reading them or watching people like this on tv my own reaction is “why even bother”.
    So how should I feel when I see people like the ones in the linked article have their lives crushed by Trump’s policies? Schadenfreude? Should I smirk and say “told you so”? It is tempting, I admit. But in the end that would make me just another Trumpian asshole, wouldn’t it? So I’ll continue to follow my liberal beliefs and oppose Trump and his MAGAts. And I’ll hope that those who voted for him don’t suffer in the same way I hope others who make what I think are bad choices don’t suffer. And I will support liberal policies that will help the people Trump hurts.

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