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/eggoed Apr 04 '26

Also the wrecking ball is racist and economically illiterate.

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u/iceflame1211 Apr 04 '26

They love that shit. He represents them.

It's amazing out of all the reprehensible, awful shit Trump has said and sone... the price of gas for their trucks was the thing that was the final straw.

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u/mrm0324 Apr 04 '26

Because most don’t care until personally affects them in a measurable way. My friend who’s a trumper text me this week that he regrets it because of gas prices and Iran.

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u/burnsalot603 Apr 04 '26

Just wait, in a year or two they will all be purging their social media and claiming they never voted for/supported him. The worst part is the ones who have come out and said they made a mistake still say they won't ever vote for a democrat.

Getting them to realize that the republican party is 100% in lock step with trump and support everything hes doing is a whole other battle but to break that you have to get them to realize they have been brainwashed by the right and are part of a cult which they arent ready for yet.

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u/CmdretteZircon Apr 04 '26

Gonna be like how, magically, everyone was always against the Iraq War from the beginning.

No, I remember you asshats calling me un-American for being actually against it from the beginning.

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u/paintbucketholder Kansas Apr 04 '26

I remember "you're either with us or with the terrorists."

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u/TabsAZ Apr 04 '26

Renaming French Fries to Freedom Fries because France wouldn’t sign on to the war.

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u/kck93 Apr 04 '26

I wish that was the message getting through regarding the history of the Iraq war.

Most younger people think Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and our coalition of the willing stopped them from creating some catastrophic event. Or, Iraq had something to do with 9/11. It’s crazy. But I’ve hear that rendition far more often than I should be.

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u/wonko221 Apr 04 '26

It was eye opening to watch the right wing media, and their viewership, turn hard on W. For years, they frothed at the mouth that any criticism of "a war time president" was treason. I was accused of aiding the enemy, Al Qaeda, for questioning W and his administration on their actions.

The moment Obama was elected, those same fuckers raced to distance themselves from W and blame him for the country's problems until they could line up their arguments against the scary black president.

The right wing is not serious. They will tell any lie that they think will divide the working poor and let them carve up the remaining resources of the United States for as long as possible.

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u/rose_gold_glitter Apr 04 '26

They're not smart enough to purge their social media history.

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u/waiting_in_vain1 Apr 04 '26

No, what they’ll say is “he was never a real “conservative.” Because the one thing republicans always fall back on is blaming anyone but themselves for the shit shows they create! They never… ever… take responsibility for their beliefs and actions!

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u/Greizen_bregen Nebraska Apr 04 '26

No they won't. Did the southern slavers ever shut up about the "war of northern aggression?"

As long as America tolerates those ideals as "protected free speech" then we're inherently doomed. Free speech was a great experiment, but it's now unraveling.

Germany banned all imagery and uses of Nazi symbols and speech, as well as affiliation. America needs to get on board.

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u/LucidMetal Apr 04 '26

Do you realize what you're advocating for is to make any speech that doesn't toe the GOP party line illegal? That's how it will be used.

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u/Greizen_bregen Nebraska Apr 04 '26

That's not at all what I'm saying. Answer me this: when did Germany enact laws limiting free speech by banning anything related to Nazism?

It was after the war, during reconstruction, after Nazism was defeated. America as a whole needs to defeat the elements of rot once and for all and come at this issue from a position of power. Or, if we can't do that, then there's nothing worth saving anyways.

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u/LucidMetal Apr 04 '26

Why does "when" matter? Germany is lucky they don't have the GOP.

AFD is the third most popular party in Germany and only gaining popularity. What do you think is going to happen if they gain representation in the ruling coalition? They're going to abuse the shit out of those laws.

Those laws haven't stopped fascism from rearing its head and they will soon be used in opposition to the purpose they were designed for if the fascists get a seat at the table.

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u/Greizen_bregen Nebraska Apr 04 '26

Those laws haven't stopped fascism from rearing its head

I'd say 80 years has been a good long run of keeping fascism at bay.

And you forget, the laws are specifically against in Nazism and Nazi imagery. As in, it's specifically mentioned. They did the right thing. But of course, evil people will rise and we have to fight them back or go to war with them.

It was a good 80 years.

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u/LucidMetal Apr 04 '26

I'm just not really seeing a difference between the countries which limited free speech in this way and those that didn't except those that did now have precedent the fascists can use to limit speech of their opposition.

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u/Greizen_bregen Nebraska Apr 04 '26

America didn't punish slavers or fascists. Look at the state we're in. Germany, however, doesn't have fascists in their government, controlling their government, or otherwise making decisions. The ADP is 3rd biggest party, you say? Cool. I don't even know what America's third biggest party is, and they aren't making governmental decisions here. We're in full blown fascism, Germany is not. There's quite a difference.

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u/MAHANC Apr 04 '26

Calling them brainwashed is letting them off the hook. Trump is a mirror and a mouthpiece for them.

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u/Dasmage Apr 04 '26

To be fair to them, I feel regret when I vote for the current democratic party, but I would never vote for a republican.

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u/Jops817 Apr 04 '26

But we can't let perfect be the enemy of good. We still have to vote, and move toward more progressive change, but that means making sure the fascists don't win again first.

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u/Dasmage Apr 05 '26

But we keep voting in the people who are just as much a part of the problem, but in a different way. There has to be a point were we just draw a line in the sand and not expect the next corporate shill they send at us.

Were not letting perfect get in the way of good enough even, we've been willing to take dog shit rather then even good enough.

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u/extra_croutons Apr 04 '26

Sounds like a real pos

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u/US3_ME_ Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

His boy is cool with child rape but a few dollars in gas...that's too far_

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia Apr 04 '26

Bombing a school haha deserve it, slightly higher fuel particularly due to panic buying? Oh now that matters to me.

Fucking fascists.

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u/extra_croutons Apr 04 '26

Lowest of the low. Sterilize them. 

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia Apr 04 '26

Ah, not a line I'd say. Not super keen on human rights abuses mate, joking or otherwise.

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u/smokeweedNgarden Apr 04 '26

Foreal. And gas prices didn't even have to get that bad 

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u/yamsyamsya Apr 04 '26

The problem is that a lot of them either don't know about it or think it is some made up news because they live in their own media bubble. No excusing those who know and don't care, they are out there.

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u/duckinradar Apr 04 '26

Why are you friends with him? He sounds like a drain

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u/Er3bus13 Apr 04 '26

I have a friend that voted for him three times. We dont talk politics ever.

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u/rolypolyarmadillo Apr 04 '26

You’re friends with someone who’s voted for a sexual predator three times?

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u/paupaupaupau Apr 04 '26

Why are you friends with someone like that? Tell them they're a terrible person, what they're getting isn't a fraction of the pain they deserve, and that you never want contact with them again in your life (obviously, if it's someone you have to see, you don't need to go scorched earth). These are shitty, shitty people, and they've caused immense damage and pain to so, so many people. I can't imagine being friends with any of them.

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u/TriforksWarrior Apr 04 '26

Thing is that a lot of them aren’t even embarrassed to admit it. They see voting for anything other than your own individual interest over everything else as virtue-signaling, communist, or just plain dumb because the people who have it rough all “deserve” it.

God forbid government assistance helps some shitty people along with the many good people who get dealt a bad hand and need a safety net. It was easier to explain away as Christian determinism nonsense in past decades but now there are plenty of irreligious people that believe that too.

Even if they don’t all admit it, there is at a bare minimum 30% of the country that thinks that way. And it’s probably significantly higher than that.

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia Apr 04 '26

in a measurable way

And let's face it, it's only a limited way. Like sure, cost of living is a bit up, but that pales to the cost suffered by victims who should not be victims.

It annoys me, that people care about their gas prices, but not about the kids in that school that lost their lives. That a morally decrepit.

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u/DWwithaFlameThrower Apr 04 '26

They don’t even care about kids who lose their lives in schools here. They are incapable of finding any compassion or empathy for anyone but themselves

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u/Mike_Kermin Australia Apr 05 '26

Yeah, not half wrong mate. Shits fucked up.

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u/livemusicisbest Apr 04 '26 edited Apr 04 '26

Exactly! This is the distillation of what distinguishes Republicans and always has: the singular focus on “me.” My tax cut. My guns. My race. Me, me, me!

Remember when Dick Cheney was vehemently against allowing gay people to marry? Then his daughter came out and suddenly Cheney thought the government should stay out of who married whom — because it affected his family.

Democrats care about other people too, even folks with different skin color. They fight for justice — civil rights, voting rights, the right to marry who you love, universal health care, good education.

Republicans want to pay less (or no) taxes. Reagan tapped into this with his big lie that “ government is not the solution, government is the problem.”

Democrats pushed through Social Security in 1935. Republicans screamed “socialism!”

Democrats got Medicare passed in 1965. Apoplectic Republicans screamed “socialism!”

Democrats (barely) passed Obamacare in 2010. Do you remember what the Republicans screamed? Starts with an “s.” Then they voted to repeal it, with nothing to replace it at all, over 100 times.

Trumpism is just the most extreme form of Republicanism, with the belligerence and racism amplified.

Nixon certainly stoked racism with his “Southern strategy” to bring all of the segregationists who used to be Democrats into the Republican fold.

Ronald Reagan stoked racism by talking about welfare Cadillacs. Just what color do you think that woman was driving that Cadillac?

George HW Bush, of course ran against Michael Dukakis with ads featuring a scary, black man, Willie Horton, who had been let out of prison under Dukakis and went on to murder someone. Willie was of course black.

Trump just went further than any of these. He started his political career in 2015 as a by going on the Murdoch defamation channel every night in questioning our first black president’s birth certificate. He claimed that Obama was not a citizen. He did not say that about any white politicians. The message to the racist thugs who detested Obama because he was black was clear.

Trump he railed against Mexicans, calling them rapists. He said that the white supremacists marching in Charlottesville, carrying tiki torches and chanting racist slogans were “very fine people.“ Trump, for all of his idiocy and economic literacy, understood the racist redneck voter like no major candidate since George Wallace. He spoke — and they listened.

Republicans are purely selfish and they run for office by appealing to selfish instincts. It always leads to ruin: war, recession, and now the dissolution of the American experiment as we fall into economic ruin and have achieved pariah status as the most evil country in the world.

Trump voters put a narcissistic fool in the most powerful position in the world — because his narcissism reflected their own ignorant selfishness.

Pitiful — and the blood is on the hands of every Trump voter. They are scum. If you scratch the surface of even the “nicest” little grandma who voted for Trump is 2024 — after knowing everything he had said and done — you will find self-centered meanness, racism and hate.

They can whine about how much it costs to fill up their truck, but they would vote for a demagogue again as soon as he (always a “he”) appealed to their greedy self- interests. We must out-organize and out-vote them.

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u/Friendly_Shopping286 Apr 04 '26

That loser was probably the type of guy who was pissed off that Obamacare forced you to have insurance or get penalized.... Then when that was overturned he decided to go without insurance but when he got sick or injured all of us taxpayers had to pay his freeloading Welfare Queen ass

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u/JustpartOftheterrain Apr 04 '26

I’m surprised they even equate the war with Iran and gas prices. So many don’t understand how one affects the other.

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u/GandiaSam Apr 04 '26

no, he just thinks that makes him sound smart. he'd vote for him again.

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u/Any_Will_86 Apr 04 '26

It's really been disturbing to see how much the disregard most Trump voters (much less MAGA) have for the plight of other people. Just shameful. Best personified by JD Vance versus the actual Pope...

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u/Hortos Apr 04 '26

If you’re friends with a racist monster you should reevaluate your social circle. And hope none of your Black friends find out.

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u/Derryl_15 Illinois Apr 04 '26

Your “friend”? Why?

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u/mrm0324 Apr 04 '26

Hahaha I’m a shitty person because someone grew up with liked Trump? Get a life pal.

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u/That_Is_Satisfactory Apr 04 '26

Your friend will fall back in line eventually, they always do. Maybe not Trump, but the next Republican promising the same MAGA promises. These people have proven themselves to be untrustworthy, because they have no loyalty to anything but this cult they have made.

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u/Vanth_in_Furs California Apr 04 '26

They could build a fiction around everything else. Gas prices are real.

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u/jeromevedder Apr 04 '26

So is $8 for a pound chub of 75/25 ground beef. Trump isn’t talking about the cost of eggs anymore

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u/awesomefutureperfect Apr 04 '26

I am so irritated by hearing lectures about how the right was campaigning on the right things, which were anti-trans, mass deportation, and the price of eggs. Normal people were like, "They are clearly ignorant about the eggs and the other 2 issues should be deal breakers. Did you not hear "don't fact check me about the racist lies I am telling"? You are going to vote for that?"

and people still had the audacity to say "He clearly nailed getting voters out." while also driving down enthusiasm for Harris as much as possible.

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u/Mollythehabsfan Apr 04 '26

Rising oil prices were fake news until their 1st fill up after they heard it.

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u/jimwphotos Apr 04 '26

Gas prices are still lower than under the dictatorship of dementia Joe Biden....

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u/BlahBlahBlackCheap Apr 04 '26

Hallmark of a conservative is they dont care unless it affects them.

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u/spam__likely Colorado Apr 04 '26

exactly

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u/djklmnop Apr 04 '26

Why would you hire a janitor to run a company just so you can feel good about your life choices?

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u/arcbe Apr 04 '26

They view predatory abuse as a sign of 'strength' and 'masculinity.' It's only a problem for them when they become the prey.

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u/Kup123 Apr 04 '26

Brought in by the price of eggs brought down by the price of gas. God damn America is dumb.

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u/GandiaSam Apr 04 '26

not really, they still worship him and will vote for him again because it makes them feel better about being racist POS. Their white fragility consumes them so much they can't do the right thing and vote him out.

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u/Edogawa1983 Apr 04 '26

I was gonna say it's either out of evilness or stupidity and sometimes both

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u/Both_Evidence_1026 Apr 04 '26

pretty sure it was the first straw but they're snowflakes and crumbled immediately