By the way, for all the people trying to figure out why Trump won, look at Space Cowgirl! She used to vote democrats, right? And now she voted for Trump. Probably. Even if she didn't this time, it really doesn't matter. Why might have that happened? Well, she's now become kinda like a single issue voter. The single issue is trans, in case you haven't figured it out. Or at least, it's the pivot for everything else. A lot of the people who started voting for Trump are like that. Take a mostly immaterial issue, blow it up like it's the end of the world, get people to zero in on it, and if you do it well enough, you'll get people to ignore anything else, and support things they would normally never go for. The more isolated you are from the rest of society the better it works.
It's not like democrats don't also push the conversation to largely immaterial issues. They don't want to talk about the other stuff either. They serve almost the same interests. Almost, because there are some small differences. Democrats for the most part have finance capital, entertainment and tech companies with them, republicans have the domestic industry and agriculture. Which is why you get stuff like republicans wanting tariffs and democrats rejecting them. But that's stuff that most normal people don't care that much about because it doesn't interest them much. Healthcare for example does interest people, but if you rot their brains enough with hyper-fixating on culture war shit, then they forget all about it.
Who won is not concerning me (beyond the Gaza issue) as much as the way the playbook worked, and the utterly insane stuff I keep seeing people say and actually believe. It's also concerning that I see the same concepts being transferred verbatim here as well. We already have a government that was elected on a conservative and anti-immigrant platform and they already largely pulled that shit off to get elected, but even then far right movements are gaining hold which are using the same things against THEM. It pushes the conversation to absurd places. Grandpas who own farms are voting far right parties to stop the "hordes of illegal immigrants" ruining the country. Meanwhile they live in towns that are maybe 1% immigrants, and that 1% is the people who they hired to work in their farms. Boomers think we are currently in war with Turkey and are concerned about NWO forcing us to eat insects and 3d printed meat, and kids are watching Andrew Tate clones and give money to creeps calling themselves life coaches who show you how to do pullups, make money, get women, be a Christian, and most of all be a real certified alpha dude bro, because that's what you are threatened by, betas and the gays. Meanwhile purchasing power has fallen to shit, rents and inflation have climbed up to heaven, and wages are not really going anywhere. But they seem to only care about that stuff insofar as it is part of the conspiracy to make us eat bugs or whatever. Oh, did I say a lot of people seem to think Trump is OUR president now? Yeah, when Trump won, a lot of people on social media were celebrating and saying stuff like "haha, Trump will do x to you now that he won!", as if we are not separated from him by a massive ocean. It's like you guys are exporting qanon.
So yeah, I don't care about Trump. I care about this broader nascent fascist movement that's building up, because it seems to be incredibly effective at making otherwise perfectly normal people support things and believe things they never would think twice about a few years ago.
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