• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Important point here is the Allies didn’t select for German civilians who supported the Nazis, they ALL shared blame for it even if they were just doing what they could to survive under the circumstances. Keep that in mind if you’re a Democrat voter and think you’ve “done your duty” or whatever. Saying you hate Trump online doesn’t matter for anything and the only Germans who had any respect after WW2 likely died in the resistance or in camps. So the moral posturing within the very political system that’s causing this by which you asset superiority because you are anti-Trump, at the end of the day it has zero significance if it doesn’t work. Given Trump’s polling numbers I wouldn’t be so sure of my effectiveness if I were a US Democrat supporter right now and feel like I had no basis to assert that “I’m on the good side.”

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      11 months ago

      Fortunately for us there is a very clear geographic split between where most Trump supporters live vs where most of the rest of us live. Demographers can and have focused it down to the postal code level, which is just to say that it’s far more granular than simply red vs blue states.

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        11 months ago

        Not really that simple, the fact that the 13% Obama-Trump voters likely secured his victory is one major complication with these typical “MAGA yokel” interpretations of who Trump’s supporters are. Also the alt-right people who supported Trump in 2016 don’t necessarily support him personally anymore but will still not be voting Democrat, mostly because he governed like a milquetoast Republican and wasn’t the anti-establishment personality they wanted. Similar to Obama actually, at the end of the day he was an American president and did what they do. The idea there are strong racial lines (as if that was a valid identifier for people anyway) is also dubious as many voters in the “hispanic” category are strong supporters of Trump, his number of black supporters isn’t insignificant either.

        This also misses the point that Democrat supporters are part of the same political system by which MAGA exists in, it’s all one economic consensus that is leading to this, so everyone would be blamed for acting within this system and they would deserve it. At least in this hypothetical Nazi Germany endgame fantasy.