I’ll make a counterpoint, honestly, conservative spaces aren’t handling the stopping all federal grants things well.
Lots of fiscal conservatives are suddenly having their stomachs drop realizing that Trump could actually cause a depression doing this kind of dumb shit.
I’m actually beginning to be skeptical of how much of this kind of insane shit they’ll actually put up with, because a lot of conservative people seemingly are actually loudly saying “Wait a minute, this could actually be really bad…”
They always, always fall in line.
Even if they continue their idle consternation, if the election were held again today they would all vote identically.
His base turning on him 1) requires that they admit they were duped which they can’t since their whole identities are tied up in MAGA and 2) barely matters at this point. Despite his bullshitting hes not running again. He doesn’t need them anymore. None of this matters.
It doesn’t actually, and we don’t actually need them to admit or even understand that they made a mistake in supporting him. All we need is for them to be embarrassed enough or demotivated enough to give into their laziness and not to turn out at the midterms.
And they were embarrassed in many cases after last time. It’s just that the embarrassment that made them fail to turn out for him last time, and even to vote for Biden, was too far in the rear view and largely overshadowed by their annoyance with the administration between his terms.
And again, it does matter because his approval affects how politicians who do want to be reelected will react to him, as well as whether the agencies and departments he passes orders down to will enact them.
His word doesn’t just happen. It still requires cooperation. The less support he was, the less cooperation he’ll find.
They always, always fall in line.
Even if they continue their idle consternation, if the election were held again today they would all vote identically.
I’ll be happy to be proven wrong.
This doesn’t reflect what we saw during his first administration. At all.
His base turning on him 1) requires that they admit they were duped which they can’t since their whole identities are tied up in MAGA and 2) barely matters at this point. Despite his bullshitting hes not running again. He doesn’t need them anymore. None of this matters.
It doesn’t actually, and we don’t actually need them to admit or even understand that they made a mistake in supporting him. All we need is for them to be embarrassed enough or demotivated enough to give into their laziness and not to turn out at the midterms.
And they were embarrassed in many cases after last time. It’s just that the embarrassment that made them fail to turn out for him last time, and even to vote for Biden, was too far in the rear view and largely overshadowed by their annoyance with the administration between his terms.
And again, it does matter because his approval affects how politicians who do want to be reelected will react to him, as well as whether the agencies and departments he passes orders down to will enact them.
His word doesn’t just happen. It still requires cooperation. The less support he was, the less cooperation he’ll find.