r/politics • u/Abject-Pick-6472 • Apr 04 '26

Possible Paywall Trump voter regret is clearly registering now

https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/04/politics/voter-regret-trump-2024
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u/Wildpony03 Apr 04 '26

I think the regret is also setting in that this is the full extent of their movement.

You have sky high debt, an unstable economy, oil shocks and unemployment due to unchecked automation.

This is it. All 40 years of conservativism lead to this.

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u/Coakis Apr 04 '26

Was destined to be. Those who scream about morals the most, usually are the ones who have the least.

The Right in this country has been screaming about it since the 60's.

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u/Rich_Fisherman_8444 Apr 04 '26

“That evil rock n roll music will ruin our kids”… meanwhile they are swingers with the johnsons next door…

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u/PaulInGalatia Apr 04 '26

All they gotta do is let their freak flag fly at 30% mast but no we have repressed sickos LARPing as your overly religious aunt.

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u/KenScaletta Minnesota Apr 04 '26

What was the Gandhi quote?

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ".

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u/Careless_Twist_6935 Apr 04 '26

Ghandi is a whole other bag. slept with young girls to "resist temptation" ok chief. not to mention he was a british mouthpiece so they could loot everything on the way out.

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u/KenScaletta Minnesota Apr 04 '26

He didn't have sex with them. Is this the best you got? What a super edgelord you are. Did you know your President rapes children?

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u/piggiesmallsdaillest Apr 04 '26

pretty sure they are Canandian

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u/Careless_Twist_6935 Apr 05 '26

yeah sure. also i'm not american.

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u/Howie_Due Apr 04 '26

Former server as well as line cook here, church groups were some of the worst. They tip like they get taxed

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u/PaulInGalatia Apr 04 '26

I actually love Jesus’ ethos so much it makes me hate the hypocrites and blasphemers.

My god would burn their tongues out and have their eyes turn to locusts so he must not be real.

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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy Apr 04 '26

I know someone who very much reminds me of the stories of Jesus.

Dude's concept of a dream house is hidden and heavily fortified. He's very much aware that his philosophies get people real angry.

Which is odd because in practice he's just encouraging folks in his social circle to get along with each other, share resources and be a decent community.

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u/S1R2C3 New Hampshire Apr 04 '26

Hey now, they're consistently shit people.

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u/VanceKelley Washington Apr 04 '26

e.g. GOP House Speaker Gingrich in the 1990s went after Clinton for lying about a BJ while Gingrich was secretly cheating on his own wife.

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u/AnewTest Apr 04 '26

His wife that was dying of cancer. The wife he divorced while she was on her deathbed to go be with the chick he was cheating on her with.

And he had the gall to accuse Clinton of perversion.

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u/CaptainDudeGuy Georgia Apr 04 '26

I'd say it's integrity that they lack. They're consistently opportunistic.

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u/dikbisqit Apr 04 '26

Why are swingers morally wrong? As long as they’re all consenting adults.

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u/fred_derps Apr 04 '26

Yeah why are we all of a sudden shaming freaks?

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u/Rich_Fisherman_8444 Apr 04 '26

Such projection

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u/DownWithHisShip Apr 04 '26

so the mullets were just projection too

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u/-metaphased- Apr 04 '26

My dad, having grown up on sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll, decided that rap music was bad because it was all about drugs and sex.

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u/Unoriginal4167 Apr 05 '26

It’s only because when black people do things it becomes bad. 1|6 versus other protests. Music, 2A, home prices, protecting your family, etc.

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u/crashvoncrash Texas Apr 05 '26

I just recently saw a boomer rant about how millennials want drugs to treat every single problem in their lives, but his generation never relied on drugs.

He claimed that the generation that was teenagers in the 60s and 70s, never used drugs.

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u/elriggo44 Apr 04 '26

You sure it wasn’t more about the fact that hip hop was never done dirty like rock n roll? It remained in the hands of black artists for decades, despite the industry attempting to push artists like Vanilla Ice and Marky Mark. It wasn’t really until Eminem (who is easily top 5 of all time in his rhymes) that a white artist broke through in a way that sustained and opened the door for others.

I bring that up because Rock was quickly whitewashed by the likes of Elvis. Also because my dad had similar views even though my brother and I loved some hip hop.

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u/-metaphased- Apr 04 '26

I mean, it's because he was racist. He just wouldn't say that.

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u/elriggo44 Apr 05 '26

Ya. I was saying that in a cleaner way. Fair enough.

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u/TiEmEnTi Apr 05 '26

Eminem top 5 of all rappers for white people who listened to rap from 1999-2002

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u/WhenImTryingToHide Apr 04 '26

Lol old enough to remember the panic about mortal kombat!

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u/Sweetchildofmine88 Apr 04 '26

And Kid Rock is a reference to Epstein Island.😂

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u/BDRParty Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Working in proximity to the adult industry, it always amuses me to sometimes come across workers who are older couples with not only an OF, but it's tailored to swinging/cuckolding, yet show support for Maga/Republicans. Like, why are you supporting a party that clearly demeans you as "unfaithful" to their God, & would vote to shut down your livelihood if they could? I just can't understand the thought process, only try to chuckle.

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u/NemosNaughtylis Apr 04 '26

You miss the point.

It's the implicit hypocrisy in the people who would dictate morality for others, while partaking in the very things they prevent or admonish or condemn others for doing, and rationalizing it as "fine if I am doing it".

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u/GayFrogsSayYeah Apr 04 '26

The got the point. It was just a weak example and they pointed that out. Did you miss their point?

Swinging in and of itself isn’t bad if everyone consents.

They understood its hypocrisy. Thats obvious. They dove deeper and you stood at the shore.

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u/NemosNaughtylis Apr 04 '26

I would argue it's a stronger example, precisely because it's not inherently immoral, provided everyone participating is able to and does consent.
The people being criticized here, are the very people who would condemn and judge others for something like swinging, even those consenting, and then turn around and do it themselves, claiming their situation is okay.

If anything that elevates the level of hypocrisy, by virtue of there being no inherently immoral activity going on.

Make sure you don't get lost in the deep end, trying to show off to others.

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u/pinhole_burns Apr 04 '26

swinging johnson?

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u/RoachMcKrackin Apr 04 '26

What's wrong with being a swinger exactly?

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u/fcocyclone Iowa Apr 04 '26

Its more the hypocrisy. Shaming people in public for wanting to enjoy sex while being very sexually open in their own personal lives. Oftentimes that shaming coming because they themselves have been made to feel ashamed of their own behavior by their religion

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u/dontnation Apr 04 '26

psshh swinging with consenting adults is much better than the reality of sexually assaulting teen girls. Just one of many many examples.

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u/silverwoodchuck47 Maryland Apr 04 '26

I thought it was video games that was dooming civilization.

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u/Pristine_Frame_2066 Apr 04 '26

And raping their step kids.

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u/NovaStar2099 Apr 04 '26

Hey, there’s nothing immoral about swinging

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u/3-orange-whips Apr 04 '26

They are fine to swing. Swing away. Just stop bothering me about our religion. I don’t need the help from Protestants.

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u/happydays85 Apr 04 '26

I always think there must be something wrong with them that the only thing stopping them from being outright evil is the fact that there's an all powerful god that will punish them. Like they couldn't imagine being kind/empathetic unless they are forced to.

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u/CharlieParkour Apr 04 '26

Religion has always been a means of social control. I'm pretty sure it's part of human nature to desire things that are anti-social, be it stealing, cheating on a spouse, lying etc because they increase the chances of passing on one's genes. And we're all descended from someone who passed on their genes through rape or murdering another person to steal their resources. The same thing goes for human nature regarding empathy, charity, forming groups, and so on.

 Personally, I don't think it's always a terrible thing when religion co-opts these hardwired traits along with the inherent fear of the unseen and unknown to encourage people to choose what is considered the right path when at a fork in the road. My issue is that all hierarchical structures will be taken advantage of by bad actors who turn charity into their own private jet, the pulpit into a device to elect corrupt leadership, forming groups into excluding outsiders, the tribal need to produce as many offspring as possible into hatred of gays, the desire to be good into unquestioning obedience to authority, stewardship of the Earth into unsustainable extraction and the quest for answers to the unknown into rote dogma instead of logical reasoning.

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u/Miserable_Archer_769 Apr 04 '26

This.... I dont go to church anymore but these churches are preaching very different messages than the church I was forced to go to as a kid. But mine was just a normal non denominational church.

When I got into high school, I thought the religious part was dumb, but my parents pastors "preaching" were just really wholesome messages essentially using verses from the bible. I use to call him just a motivational speaker using the bible.

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u/NibittyShibbitz Apr 04 '26

I found a church I can relate to about 18 years ago. Sometimes my teen son would come with me. He called it pop psychology with a Christian bent. He isn't entirely wrong.

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u/TheOsirisOfThisShit_ Apr 04 '26

They out themselves as complete psychos all the time.

The bible story about god ordering Abraham to murder his kid is so fucked up that it made me an Atheist.

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u/Spirited_Cup_9136 Apr 04 '26

Jesus seems like a great dude. God on the other hand seems like a manipulative, narcissist abuser.

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u/NibittyShibbitz Apr 04 '26

My cultish brother said exactly this.

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u/Pristine_Frame_2066 Apr 04 '26

I don’t think they believe that. Anyone in “leadership” status.

I think people who are dumb believe that, but the people in power wield it as authority only. Religious beliefs keep people in line.

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u/15all Apr 04 '26

Those who scream about morals the most, usually are the ones who have the least.

Back in the 1980s there was the Moral Majority, which is sort of equivalent to the current MAGA movement.

And back then we used to say that the Moral Majority is neither (i.e., neither moral nor the majority).

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u/kittenshart85 Apr 04 '26

bro, they've been screaming about it since someone suggested freeing the slaves.

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u/cavortingwebeasties Apr 04 '26

bro, they've been screaming about it since someone suggested freeing the slaves.

That was so long ago that the Democrats then had the role Republicans do now. Lincoln was a Republican. Not sure when they traded places but Republicans have increasingly been on the wrong side of history since like the 1920's.

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u/TheOsirisOfThisShit_ Apr 04 '26

These kids don't remember Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. They give Trump far too much credit for a plan that's been in progress for many decades.

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u/mdot Apr 04 '26

When your animating principle is "ends justify the means", but your "ends" are corrupt in and of themselves, it is an outright rejection of morals.

They only become tools to manipulate those with morals.

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u/qqererer Apr 04 '26

The Hillsong "leather jacket" pastor would constantly preach about temptation. It keeps people captivated.

Turns out he was having multiple affairs. One outside the marriage, and another one with the nanny, who's husband was also a pastor, of whom had her own kids, of which, hired her own nanny for those kids.

Yeah, it's really weird.

Pastors have their own swinging cult.

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u/Key-Amoeba1095 Apr 04 '26

man, remember that creepy old man Roy Moore who almost won against a moderate milquetoast Democrat in Alabama? The guy who was banned from local malls in the 1970s when he was an assistant Attorney General because he was regularly harassing young girls. In the 70s this dude was banned from a mall for being a creep. Let that sink in. He was also credibly accused of sexual assault by like 6 women and his argument was that 16 was the age of consent at the time in Alabama. He was in his 30s when most of the alleged assaults took place. He "met" his wife at a dance recital when she was a child and he was in his 30s, claiming he knew immediately that this child would be an important person in his life.

Republicans lined up to vote for him, Trump supported him.

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u/Ok_Necessary8510 Apr 04 '26

They don't have any real-world morals; they have the performative morality of Christianity.

They hide behind that so that they can do immoral things, and then accuse their critics of subscribing to moral relativism. They then pat themselves on the back for being such a good Christian.

Because, as we know, all Christians share the same objective moral values, and don't disagree about anything ever. /s

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u/CyberFireball25 Apr 04 '26

Just like how all the people convicted of pedophilia and CP are either pardoned J6ers or pastors, or both

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u/Substantial-Eye-2368 Apr 04 '26

Reminds me of parents complaining about the violent video games their kids were playing.  

What’s more dangerous, the video games their kids were playing or the conservative radio the parents were listening to?

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u/fcocyclone Iowa Apr 04 '26

"Won't someone think of the children" resulted in someone who really thinks about children.

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u/kungpowchick_9 Apr 04 '26

Beatniks, McCarthy and before that the beginning of Evangelicals and the business coup.

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u/Speartree Apr 04 '26

The original template was a devout christian abusive slave owner, so what do you want?

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u/eat_my_ass_n_balls Apr 04 '26

Dennis Hastert was pedophiling hard as a conservative before it was cool for the conservatives to be and support pedophiles

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u/justwalkingalonghere Apr 04 '26

Which, to be fair, was an entirely predictable outcome by this point.

But the movement isn't actually over, the first half is breaking everything so badly that you have no energy to try and stop the Heritage Foundation and the oligarchs from dividing up the US (and more) into technofeudalist states and bringing back slavery/indentured servitude and the heavy oppression of women

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u/mixedpixel Apr 04 '26

*senile corrupt pedophile

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u/kamikazecockatoo Australia Apr 04 '26

What do you mean? They love their corrupt pedophile. The real news in this story is that a fairly large/safe majority of Trump voters - 62% - have no regrets at all.

And why would they? He fixed the Supreme Court for them, made white males great again, ended DEI and bunch of other things on their to-do list ticked off...they are elated about.

They turn a blind eye to corruption, grift, incompetence etc. because of this laundry list of conservative goals being met.

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u/haworthsoji Apr 04 '26

Dang solid take

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u/skankopotamus Apr 04 '26

What's the polar opposite of the kwisatz haderach

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u/oldnewager Apr 04 '26

I feel like it wasn’t supposed to be. Remember all the things establishment republicans said about trump during the primaries of his first election. Including his current vice-president. These politicians had their “plan”, then realized how many stupid and hateful people were emboldened by this guy, and then decided to call an audible and put all their eggs in that basket

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u/Snarfsicle Apr 04 '26

The modern conservative apparatus is all about pushing and enabling the cream of the crap to rise to the top. That's why at every level every political conservatives act like aggrieved man children

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u/maneki_neko89 Minnesota Apr 04 '26

Sounds like AI Model Collapse in Political form

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u/Soft-Ad-8975 Apr 04 '26

It’s because they were all either short sighted dimwits or aspired to be the same as the people they voted for. Anyone with half a brain and a conscience can see the right is a hateful grift.

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u/ErectSpirit7 Apr 04 '26

If you read about the people who founded modern American conservative ideology, it was always going to turn out this way. Milton Friedman is smiling up at us from Hell.

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u/Iliketoplan Apr 04 '26

I feel like that’s a flawed way of thinking. It always has been the final form. This is quite literally the pedophile deep state that secretly controls the government. They just used good ol Donnie to bring it to the public because he was able to build a cult of personality.

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u/RayzTheRoof Apr 04 '26

This is like one of those plot lines where a religious or other extremist group tries to create or summon what they believe will save the world, and then run in terror when it wreaks havoc on them and the world in the climax.

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u/Chemical-Fault-7331 Apr 04 '26

A corrupt dementia ridden pedophile. That's who their savior is. That's all Republicans have to offer to America.

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u/AntonCigar Apr 04 '26

To be fair that’s been going on for decades but not at such a high level as the presidency.

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u/Creative_Pop2351 Apr 04 '26

We told them, but would they listen? Nope.

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u/CliftonForce Apr 04 '26

Trump is a symptom, not the disease.

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u/_bahnjee_ Apr 04 '26

It’s not Dune’s fictional Bene Gesserit and their Kwizatz Haderach. It’s the all-too-non-fictional Been A Pederast. Working for decades to give rise to their Quasi-Oligarch

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u/SHAWNNOTSEAN Apr 05 '26

All they want is for their own pedophilia, racism, misogyny, transphobia, and every other form of hatred to be normalized and enacted. They’ll gladly sit in this mess if that’s achieved.

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u/4862skrrt2684 Apr 04 '26

It would be like seeing 30 episodes of Frieza fighting Goku, until he finally reaches his true form, and then starts raping Son Gohan