Vance praised Trump as “the toughest SOB in American politics”, and paused repeatedly as the crowd lavished him with cheers and applause.
I don’t want the meanest SOB as president. I’m just one person though. Should meanest rise to the top of hierarchy? Or is it a flaw in our systems when that happens? What about diplomacy? Things to think about before you vote.
But this is the closest thing to make sense. He doesn’t say meanest, but toughest. There are a lot of desperate people falling out of the modern world, seeing no way out.
Most of us would look to stop the class war, increase jobs and education, strengthen safety nets, etc
They correctly see these things as unwieldy so think a “tough guy” is the only chance. That makes some sense. Somehow he made them believe he was a tough guy rather than just a grifter. Somehow he made them believe he would act in other than personal self-interest. Most importantly he was able to stoke their outrage and identify subgroups to hate, while somehow getting them to ignore reality, history, facts
There are a lot of broken people out there. Read The Authoritarians. My guess is that a not insignificant portion of the republicons - including the voters - count as RWA. And then there are other character traits like the dark triad and so on.
Lot of cons seem to cheer the idea of hurting other people. They seem to prioritize this even over their very real needs. For instance, they fret and froth and gnash their teeth and rend their garments over “men in women’s sports”. They used to also spend a lot of time worried about men marrying men, too (still do, really, but hating on trans has taken center stage. For the moment).
Having men play in women’s sports will affect them not in the slightest bit. Not in the least. It’s the on the margins of the margins. But they’d rather see trans people hurt over almost anything else.
Same thing with having the FCC cancel TV shows on corporate media. Or mass deportation. They’d rather see liberals upset more than almost anything else in their lives.
I don’t want the meanest SOB as president. I’m just one person though. Should meanest rise to the top of hierarchy? Or is it a flaw in our systems when that happens? What about diplomacy? Things to think about before you vote.
But this is the closest thing to make sense. He doesn’t say meanest, but toughest. There are a lot of desperate people falling out of the modern world, seeing no way out.
Most of us would look to stop the class war, increase jobs and education, strengthen safety nets, etc
They correctly see these things as unwieldy so think a “tough guy” is the only chance. That makes some sense. Somehow he made them believe he was a tough guy rather than just a grifter. Somehow he made them believe he would act in other than personal self-interest. Most importantly he was able to stoke their outrage and identify subgroups to hate, while somehow getting them to ignore reality, history, facts
There are a lot of broken people out there. Read The Authoritarians. My guess is that a not insignificant portion of the republicons - including the voters - count as RWA. And then there are other character traits like the dark triad and so on.
Lot of cons seem to cheer the idea of hurting other people. They seem to prioritize this even over their very real needs. For instance, they fret and froth and gnash their teeth and rend their garments over “men in women’s sports”. They used to also spend a lot of time worried about men marrying men, too (still do, really, but hating on trans has taken center stage. For the moment).
Having men play in women’s sports will affect them not in the slightest bit. Not in the least. It’s the on the margins of the margins. But they’d rather see trans people hurt over almost anything else.
Same thing with having the FCC cancel TV shows on corporate media. Or mass deportation. They’d rather see liberals upset more than almost anything else in their lives.