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Right.
Because he ran on and won on a historic unpopularity around the economy.
Right.
There were a lot of people who were frustrated with the way things were going.
They experienced a year and a half of negative real wage growth under Joe Biden, and they never forgot about that.
And they wanted to they wanted to, I guess, that paired up with the racialized animus wanted to vote for Donald Trump once again.
And now that he's not delivering on that agenda, the only thing he can do.
is weaponize ICE as a Gestapo force on blue cities, punish Democratic leadership all around the country in any way, shape, or form he can, and really beef up the white nativist anti-migrant strategy and also engage in unvarnished, vulgar white supremacist sentiment like this.
So there is an expectation from the base that he does this, but it's a... I guess the...
The advantage here, the silver lining here, if you can even find one, is that that base of support is diminishing.
It's like around 20 percent, I would say, of the diehard ultra mega loyalists that want this.
I like to call it vice signaling from the president because they have nothing else to look forward to.
So they want to like they want groups of people to look down upon.
That famous LBJ quote comes to mind.
Right.
Um, and, and that's precisely the, the only thing that, uh, these people are clinging onto.
So I say, I mean, let go of that 20% base, uh, that is, uh, purely reactionary and, and try to focus on, on organizing around the rest of the country with the 80%, uh, specifically around issues that pertain to their material realities, uh, and hopefully, uh, launch a stronger opposition against Donald Trump to the best of our ability and continue engaging in community defense.
I think there's two different angles on the Manosphere side.
Obviously, the expected result of Donald Trump's popularity waning has caused a lot of people who weren't super diehard invested in the ideological movement that he represents to pull out.
Because for some of them, it's just clout, right?