Quick backstory: I’m in what many call a golden relationship. For 8 years, its always been close to perfect minus the petty squabbles here and there. Politics had never been spoken of in depth previous to 2016 because neither of us were very political people. We only ever lightly talked political subjects and I was always leaning towards the right and her, left, and it was never an issue, but when she learned I was voting for Trump in 2016(I didn’t see the shitstorm coming my way when she asked if I was going to vote), she freaked out, to say the least. It got ugly, it got nasty. There were some hurtful things said. It was the worst fight we had ever had, so bad that our entire relationship was put into question and after it was over and the dust settled, I told her that because of the way she had acted and what was said, we would never again be able to talk about politics if we wanted to continue our relationship because if it were ever repeated, I wouldn’t deal with something like that again, I would walk away. In reflection, she must have believed the media fear-mongering(TDS)and her liberal work environments influence about Trump ending everyones rights and destroying the world because our values and views are not wildly opposite. But we stuck to it and did not talk about politics for the last four years.
And now we come to today, out of the complete blue, in an unrelated conversation, she blindsides me with: “I’m voting for Trump, by the way.”
Seriously thought my brain glitched. The man she equated with the devil and put our relationship on the edge of ruin over, is now getting her vote.
She still says she doesn’t like Trump, but that Biden is a threat to children. Go figure. It’s a start.
If Trump doesn’t win, the only way it’s possible is voter fraud. Even people who viewed Trump as a country destroyer in 2016 are voting for him now.
I am too young to have been there, but some people claim Reagan was just as hated as Trump when he was first elected. I find that incredibly hard to believe though.
The hatred scale goes like this:
Antebellum era:
#1 Andrew Jackson (a Democrat, but today hated by the Democrats, and then hated by the establishment)
#2 Thomas Jefferson (a maverick who hated the John Adams control freak and his partisans)
Post-Civil War:
#1 Abraham Lincoln (cause he freed the dems' slaves, duh)
#2 Donald Trump (cause he is freeing the dems' slaves again, this time the brainwashed masses)
#3 Nixon (just cause he was a Republican who won massively, though he was more liberal than JFK; if he'd been a true conservative he could have set back the Left in America by decades, but he wasn't so didn't)
#4 Ronald Reagan (cause he threatened long-term economic success and the destruction of the Western Left's favorite, the USSR)
#5 George W. Bush (even though he was a weak-ass, nominal Republican, just cause he dashed their dreams that 2000 would inaugurate a permanent Democrat one-party state in the U.S.)
#6 Ford (just cause he was a good Republican)
#7 George H.W. Bush (just cause he was nominally a Republican)
Ahhh, but where does JFK fit? You know they hate him, but because he was assassinated (almost certainly by Oswald put up to it by the CIA, so, by the establishment/Left) he's basically forgotten by them, and they don't want to remember any of the good he did or was going to do.
They also hate all the other Republicans, like Ulysses S. Grant, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover (who was also a piss poor Republican, but hey, they don't care).
When it's all done, Donald Trump will be the one they hate the most, especially after we win 2020, 2022, 2024, and 2028, then they'll see Doland Trump as having set them back decades the way Nixon and Reagan could have but didn't.
They especially hate Rs with balls and communications skills. Trump's comms skills are nowhere near as good as Reagan's, or maybe even Nixon's, but Trump's instincts make him a much harder target and much more dangerous to the Left.
Was a young pede then. Media was pretty much the major broadcasting networks. All promoted Reagan as a war hawk who would bring on WW3. They hated him. Said his economic policies would never work. He won because the economy was so bad people ignored it and hoped he would do better. He won because he could talk simple common sense that people understood. He won because his American values shone through and people knew he would do what was best for the country. Geez, does this sound familiar?