President Donald Trump’s political supporters have long been described as cult-like, from their willingness to change their ideology based on Trump’s whims to their reflexive distrust of established experts. In light of the Republican leader’s politically devastating losses in the 2026 midterm elections, these same true believers are now angry at every voter who did not stand by their man, at least according to a recent in-depth study.
“Last week we assembled a focus group of Republicans who voted for President Trump in both 2020 and 2024, and who, except for some local elections, voted straight-ticket Republican in this year’s midterms,” wrote polling expert Sarah Longwell in The Bulwark on Sunday.
“In my conversation with these voters, one thing became abundantly clear in their cacophony of cope: They were not blaming Trump,” Longwell added. “Instead, they were blaming the GOP candidates on the ticket for being terrible. They were blaming social media for pushing Trump Derangement Syndrome. And they were blaming their fellow Americans, who they insisted were just too brainwashed and emotional to just hold their noses and vote for the terrible candidates that Republicans offered them.”
That’s okay, same here limp dicks.
The 30%. So, either the neighbor to your left, or the neighbor to your right.
Nextdoor in my neighborhood is full of people crying. This is New Mexico, did they really think we’d vote for an R for Governor this year? They screamed about it for a year, and the state went ahead and quietly voted D. I used to tell them to move back to Texas, but, OOPS! LOL.
I’ve been having a ball on Nextdoor since the election. Their tears of impotent rage sustains me. It’s been a challenge getting in on the comments before the whole post gets nuked, though.
Reading Nextdoor since the election has been crazy. It was full of stupid conservative stuff before (seeing their thoughts on water usage is about as stupid as you might imagine) , but now it’s them crying about the election.
These are the same people who cheer for pedophiles, grift, and war crimes. Nobody cares what they have contempt for.
Something about boos and cheers.
Maga voters can choke on a big blue cock.
They can enjoy Bluekakke 2026.
🤣
Elimination of fascists is the rational choice. There’s no emotions involved.
No no, there’s emotion.
You can hate something and also be correct about it.
Fuck MAGA voters.
They’re going to demand to see the polls’ manager.
Again.
that’s cool, i have contempt for MAGA voters.
I have a seething burning hatred and wish everything they voted for happens to them.
Thank you for this.
Contempt and a lack of empathy are definitionally what it means to be conservative.
Also, fear, and money, and power. It’s all tied together.
So, successful business owners, almost always--they’re the ones who cry about taxes. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduces-compassion/
Naturally fearful people are good targets for the propaganda and Fox News. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201612/fear-and-anxiety-drive-conservatives-political-attitudes
The uneducated are easily convinced that other people are responsible for their woes.
Bigotry, wherever it comes from.
They’re also a defining characteristic of nazi’s.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/05/politics/elon-musk-rogan-interview-empathy-doge
I truly believe that unless kept in check the right wing in any country will slowly move towards fascism and Nazism. I feel like we must assume that any and all moves made by conservatives must be assumed to be working towards those ends and treated as such.
That’s what they said
Wah, it’s so crazy, it’s almost as if whenever you promise “no war” and “Epstein files release”, and then you go to war and sit on the Epstein files, you lose.
Who knew?
If anyone is emotional, it’s the right wing. Most emotional bunch I’ve ever seen.
Naturally, they think only having empathy is “emotional”. Naturally, they don’t count the emotions of jealousy, bitterness, anger and fear as emotions.
What a bunch of fragile, easily triggered snowflakes
Speaking with AlterNet in August, University of Bristol cognitive scientist Dr. Stephan Lewandowksy argued that one can understand supporters of President Donald Trump by understanding their psychology as analogous to that of internet trolls.
“We know that trolls take pleasure in trolling, which means getting other people upset,” Lewandowsky told AlterNet. “And I think that’s what we’re observing here — this is basically trolling behavior. So would these people score high on the dark triad? I would think yes, but I don’t know of any data that’s done a personality profile specifically of MAGA voters. We do have it for trolls, though — I have data on that. People have published research on it, and the similarities are just overwhelming. So I’d be very surprised if these were well-adjusted, nice people.”
Absolutely bang on, and anyone that’s spent any amount of time with hardcore Trump supporters knows this.
I think the world has heard enough of the idiotic “own the libs” phrase to understand what motivates a great deal of the MAGA members. Bloody cunts that are making it their defining political desire, is what they are.
What I feel this analysis omits, probably to land sympathetically to a reader, is that all people are capable of trolling in some degree and occasionally indulge.
Similarly, all voters engage in tribalism. Was i glad to see KLB win GA? Yes, because of tribalism, honestly. Dispassionately, I’m personally frustrated by her lack of willingness to legalize Marijuana, but it doesn’t feel like the time to raise that - again, due to tribalism.
Are you sure you aren’t mixing up you pragmatism about supporting candidates that meet more of your goals and standards over another with tribalism?
“fuck their feelings” with a healthy serving of “I don’t care, do you?”
MAGA voters have had outsized media representation. How many sidewalk interviews have I heard with, “I’m not a racist but”?
Now that they are a vanishing minority, it’s super annoying to hear about them.
They are still among us, unfortunately. The floor is somewhere around 25 - 33% of them…short of systemic change to our education system it’s not likely to change, and even then, it would be future generations, not the people living today - barring any kind of advancement where people could vastly upgrade their intelligence.
barring any kind of advancement where people could vastly upgrade their intelligence.
Maybe some kind of a helmet with a built-in vibrator and magnets to stimulate bloodflow to the brain?
I kid, I kid. That would only work if it was combined with headphones playing audiobooks on 101-level ethics, history, and civics, interspersed with practical instructions on transformational psychology and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
Even then they might just view it as torture and would end up taking the helmets off unless they’re locked in place like that, and I don’t think the ethics board would certify it unless participation is voluntary…
“Butthurt whiny bitch babies are butthurt.” No shit.
But they will whine and claim that it is everyone else that is “emotional”.
These people are crashing out like Obama got a third term, and it’s hilarious. What makes it even funnier is how they talk about “TDS” (lol) and how everyone else is too “emotional”.
It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and poor critical thinking, so they think everyone is basically like them. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except they’re also a bunch of toxic submissive types that will always yield to perceived authority.
They’re shit people. Failures to live up to human potential.
I wonder how many of them were beaten by nuns in catholic school as children.
What else could cause grown-ass men who care so much about presenting a machismo image to simultaneously be so subby for such a demented old grifter?
Yeah, I think TDS needs to be redefined to refer to the people who are absorbed in the orange menace’s personality cult.
Honest to god, when I first heard the term Trump Derangement Syndrome, I thought it was referring to the state of mind that would allow you to hear and see the things Trump said and did and think it’s normal.
Honestly, same…
Could not agree more. The only people who are “deranged” are the people who feel this con artist is not just a good businessman (lol), but a great president.
