• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldOP
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    13 hours ago

    We had a brief reprieve in the Biden years, but pretty much ever since 2015 it’s been this way for me.

    I always knew conservatives were way worse than the likes of David Brooks like to pretend they are. I grew up in a rural area, very very red, years before donnie came along. I moved out after college. But prior to that, I lived every day, surrounded by The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair, with very few exceptions.

    And even I was surprised by them going for the washed-up never-was and complete con-man that is donnie. Pretty much anyone that was paying attention at the time knew he was an asshole back in the 80s and 90s. Hell, he’s featured prominently as someone to worship by the protagonist in American Psycho. That’s no accident, and that book was written in 1991.

    Even I thought the rubes might not go for this effete fake “businessman” that has a lengthy hair-and-makeup routine and is mostly known for trying to climb the social ladder as a Manhattanite…but nope, they were completely fooled by this guy. Probably because of the racism.

    This country has gone from one embarrassment to another during his two failed terms, though.

    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Oh, it was definitely the racism and mysogeny. “He says it like it is, just like me!” While at the same time Donnie is whining about immigrants, Muslims, eating dogs and cats, etc.