Adam Serwer

I think that's why his approval ratings are so low.

When I talk to Trump voters, again, they just discount it during the campaign.

They just refuse to believe any of the negative stuff was true, even when it was coming from people who used to work for him.

And like when you talk to people there and say, oh, he's just going to, you know, mass deportation means go after the criminals.

Well, that's not what that means.

Or like the tariffs, you know, they pay the tariff.

I mean, there's just a total refusal to accept that.

What Trump's agenda actually was because they liked him personally, like his personal brand was so strong with these people that they simply refused to believe that he would do these things.

And now that he's doing them, they don't like it very much.

And I said this, you know, right after the election, it was one of the it was like maybe the second piece I published that if Trump actually pursued his agenda, a lot of his voters would be disappointed with it.

On the flip side of that, just to go back to the virtue signaling question, I think there was a tremendously successful caricaturing of the sort of highly educated liberal who was like policing everybody's language.

This perception that the right was not attacking people of color when it was attacking quote unquote wokeness, but it was actually just attacking these pointy headed people.

Annoying lips, annoying white lips.

And I don't really like it either.

It's so annoying to be told that I'm not allowed to say this, to say that.

But ultimately, the hardcore ideological agenda that the quote unquote wokes were warning about was the actual agenda.

But what is democracy if the voters aren't accountable for their choices and they made a really bad choice?

And a lot of people who are vulnerable are going to suffer the consequences of that choice.

you know, resurrected Ulysses S. Grant through some dark magic, and you told him, hey, the Supreme Court is nullifying the 15th Amendment again.

Look what they're doing in Tennessee, the birthplace of the first Klan.