They support him because they feel abandoned by the American economy and want him to return us to how things previously were - wherein a working class family could actually afford a house and pay for college and take an annual vacation.
Not that Trump will do any of those things, and it’s foolish to believe he will. But the rage and desire to destroy the American political system is very understandable.
Socialism is the better option, but people over 50 are brainwashed against that. So fascism it is. “The bourgeoisie are their own gravediggers”, etc
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That’s a symptom of their detachment and shallowness, that they believe a criminal NYC trust fund baby gives two shits about any of that stuff. If they’d open their eyes for even a minute they’d see that all he has ever done is petty retaliation and bolstering his own economic class.
beardown@lemm.ee 4 months ago
No, it’s a symptom of generations of defunding public education to create a more compliant working class. When you destroy your people’s ability to critically think, yet you allow them to vote, you set yourself up for demagogues like this