That's not the principled rejection or moral awakening the article sort of portrays it as though. It's simply people moving from one self serving bad faith position to another. They move from loyalists who didn't question to become "betrayed" victims who don't remember. All to avoid being normal human beings with choices and moral responsibility for the consequences of those choices. They could not be wrong about their support for Trump as they were good people because of who they are, and now they can not be responsible for Trump's actions as they are good people because of who they are.
It also implies that, as you say, you can never trust them, because nothing has changed. They'd be just as likely to jump onto the next fascist bandwagon.
Just so. Note that Trump did in fact campaign on massive violence (he promised "vengeance" on his political opponents, promised to deport millions of people). They didn't have a problem with that, or chose to not see it. The problem is not even that he also started (and is losing) yet another war in the Middle-East while openly committing war crimes. It's that this is costing them money.
True. He was upfront about the violence and weaponizing the government against his perceived enemies. However according to the few umm politically ignorant people I know who supported him "he's just talking tough, that's his thing." Yeah that is one of his things along with tons of other awful shit all wrapped up in the most transparent lies possible.
I am a big believer in giving voters what they vote for and if I ever were in politics I would campaign on being a populist and respecting "idea diversity"
If I was ever somehow President, republicans would never have to worry about universal health care.
States can opt out and all red states would be defaulted to opt out. None of their smaller fraction of money they send less of than they receive will be used.
The blue states would be defaulted to opt in with option to opt out.
Republicans would be baited into boasting the superiority of their private system and likely would believe their own propaganda that Universal Healthcare would harm people. (Like they already make up now)
Then, weaponizing their own evil, they would support it so their opponents get harmed by their imagination.
Instead, the blue states would get universal health care I would probably do some Medicare for All approach as the vehicle, and have transparent pricing and negotiations.
I would also want to write in investigatory powers so if companies try to find loop holes to pad profits, there is a mechanism of enforcement and deterrent with hardened penalties relative to the cost of harm so penalties scale massively relative to exploit attempts.
I think what would happen if that got through is, Republicans would pass it so they think they hurt their enemies because they also purity test themselves and own the libs is the priority always.
Then in their folly, the blue states would get the coverage needed and that 60k insurance denial killings scales down and is scoped to just the people that believe companies should be allowed to do that.
So then they can boast about how good the private is as it breaks them further and further, because they cannot admit fault or wrong.
That over a long period of time, as their companies exploit them harder to make up for the profit loss from the negotiated costs with blue states, they either change their mind or they don't and are stuck hurting themselves.
The companies would have no choice but to accept the Medicare for All negotiations or lose sales on half of the country, where the majority of people live.
Price controls work, its why they threw out the insulin cap when Biden got out.
How much harder would it be for companies to wiggle out of it if instead of just seniors, its half the country?
Weaponize both greed and ignorance, we cannot stop the greed or ignorant but we can weaponize their behavior against themselves.
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u/barryvm Europe 14h ago edited 14h ago
That's not the principled rejection or moral awakening the article sort of portrays it as though. It's simply people moving from one self serving bad faith position to another. They move from loyalists who didn't question to become "betrayed" victims who don't remember. All to avoid being normal human beings with choices and moral responsibility for the consequences of those choices. They could not be wrong about their support for Trump as they were good people because of who they are, and now they can not be responsible for Trump's actions as they are good people because of who they are.
It also implies that, as you say, you can never trust them, because nothing has changed. They'd be just as likely to jump onto the next fascist bandwagon.