15 Former Donald Trump Supporters Reveal What The Final Straw Was
August 30, 2016 | 8 Comments » | Topics: TRUTH
1. I was on the maybe fence for a while. I liked the idea that he didn’t give a fuck, wasn’t being pressured by lobbyists, and had some party agnostic ideas.
I’m over it. He’s a textbook demagogue. Blame the media if they point out lies, appeal to anger, blame the others, and dance confidently in front of the camera.
Moreover, he can’t control himself. He reminds me of my dog. Her prey drive is through the roof. If she’s off leash she will bolt after worthless floating shopping bags in the road. Even if it means running into traffic and potentially killing herself.
2. When trump said he wanted to debate Bernie, and when Bernie actually agreed, he released this hogwash. All this tells me is that all of his great promises such as arresting Hillary and building the wall mean nothing, because he can just make some lame excuse as to why it can’t happen because it’s someone else’s fault.
3. Wasn’t necessarily a die hard fan, but I was really trying to keep an open mind this election. I went to both Bernie and Hillary rallies, and was really excited to see Trump too.
The final straw was most definitely the rally. I’m not sure what I expected, but Trump’s rally was so…disturbing. His words inspired hate. The people around me were openly hostile and saying vicious things against minorities, women, and Hillary Clinton. And Trump seemed to revel in it. Someone who is so gleeful in hatred is not someone I want as a leader.
4. I don’t know if I was ever a full on Trump supporter, but when he and Clinton both got the nomination for their respective parties, I was actually leaning more toward Trump. However, his denial of climate change completely changed my mind. I’m not one to get caught up in the doom and gloom of many articles about the climate changing, but there is absolutely ZERO reason not to invest time, money, and energy into renewable/cleaner power sources. Especially now, when there has been so much research done and everything is so much less expensive than it was even 10-15 years ago.
5. I was on the fence until he said global warming was a hoax. Fuuuuck that.
6. I was excited about having a republican candidate who wasn’t a far right wing religious zealot. Then he picked Pence as a VP and I thought, well fuck I may actually have to vote for Clinton. He’s divisive and doesn’t know when he just needs to admit he’s wrong and back down (picking a fight with the parents of the soldier, saying Obama is literally the founder of ISIS). I still don’t really even know what his ideas are…he never says anything concrete. It’s just “x is awful, I can make it great again.”
7. He doesn’t pay his contractors. I’m a contractor. He willfully crushes the small businesses be purports to defend.
8. I never really liked or supported Trump, but what made me completely hate him was his acceptance of the Purple Heart that was given to him by a Veteran. His reaction to receiving the medal, and just how he treated it as a “Prize” and not actually thinking about what that Veteran had done to receive the Medal and not thanking him enough or just having any real sympathy for what that man did for his country. He should have given it back to the man! I just had no respect what so ever for Trump as a human with a heart after that.
For those who didn’t see it (https://youtube.com/watch?v=zR66EoDQEt0 )
9. I really loved him for actually shucking the political trends and speaking his mind.
When he talked about the wall, I thought it was a gag. When he went deep into the Islamophobia, I knew he just deeply resented people. He’s the kind of guy that would hit you with his car then sue you for damages. He speaks his mind, but there’s nothing good going on in there.
10. Not a Trump supporter, former Trump supporter, or even American at all, but this probably sums it up for most people:
He’s already advocated spreading nuclear weapons to more countries, murdering civilians and committing war crimes, punishing any woman who gets an abortion, toss out the Geneva convention and torture people, withdraw from NATO, and ban an entire religion from the country, and create a database of muslims.
He said he would deport US citizens and thinks global warming is a hoax created by the chinese, thinks the US should default on its debt, defends the interment of Japanese Americans in WW2.
He thinks Obama is a muslim and accused him of not being american and accused him of being an ISIS sympathizer, insulted war heros because they got captured, racially insulted a sitting Senator. He bragged about his dick size in a GOP debate and has suggested he might quit if he’s actually elected.
He consistently thinks women are only valuable for how they look, with at least a dozen high-profile misogynistic comments.
He’s called nuking the middle east a plausible option. He has a suspicious number of ties to Putin, and has a history of business deals with organized crime. He’s called mexicans rapists and criminals, been successfully sued multiple times for racist rental practices, and said he wants no blacks only jews counting his money.
He semi-threatened the pope, mocked disabled people in front of a crowd of thousands, outright threatened violence towards the media and protesters, made sexual comments about his daughters MULTIPLE TIMES, praised Kim Jong Un and Putin and Saddam Hussein, praised the Tianenmen Square massacre.
He’s flirted with white supremacy – retweeting them, reposting their images with anti-semitic symbols, playing coy about David Duke’s endorsement. He’s a verified lunatic conspiracy theorist – he thinks the Clintons murdered one of their aides, Obama is a sleeper agent and Ted Cruz’s dad helped kill JFK.
He could get caught diddling kids and funding ISIS himself and his supporters would eat it up. Either way, Ladies and Gentlemen, your Republican party nominee.
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11. Quick preface: I’m from the New York City area. Trump is an absolute legend. Watching The Apprentice with my parents and brother is a super fond memory, going to Trump Tower was always a treat, and we all read his biographies. He was just this larger-than-life guy.
So naturally, when he ran for president, it was great. He cut through the BS of every other Republican candidate; he was actually talking about genuine ideas, genuine solutions for America’s problems instead of the usual Bush, Rubio crap. Blaming the trade deals for American job losses? That’s a fresh idea and it rings true for a whole lot of people. Funding his campaign without super PACs? Amazing. His personality? Magnetic. Even his more radical (xenophobic) ideas — the Muslim ban, the wall — while not appealing to me, genuinely reflect how many American people feel. Everything incendiary appeared to be calculated, either as way to get more nods from white voters, or give himself more airtime at the expense of every other candidate.
But then he took a shot at Mrs. Khan. A Gold Star mother. I couldn’t figure out what sort of calculation he made for that one — the entire right united against him on that, and my vision of genius PR master Trump just didn’t fit. It reminded me of how he insulted John McCain for getting captured — while he himself is a draft-dodger. I now realize everything he said wasn’t really a calculated ploy for attention — he really is just shooting from the hip, and is good at damage control. Not what you want in a president.
12. When he said a judge wasn’t fit for judging because he was Hispanic. I was on the fence before that shit.
13. He said he was going to bring on only the best people. The top minds. A meritocratic advisory team. I could really get behind that and it was a compelling claim.
And then every advisor he has pegged is total garbage like Ben Carson and ex-Goldman Sachs people. That was it for me. An energy advisor that doesn’t believe in climate change? No thanks.
14. When I realized he wasn’t making parabolic hyperboles but was actually speaking literally. When he said “build a wall” I just thought he meant “reform immigration”. Make visa holders accountable when they overstay, address sanctuary cities, continue to help immigrant come here legally. No. Dude literally wants a brick wall along the border. Same thing when he said Obama made ISIS just a 2 days. Most of us thought “oh he means Obama didn’t handle the Middle East well. He withdrew in an unmanageable manner creating a vacuum for a stronger extremist group.” No. After an interview with Hugh Hewitt we know that dude thinks Obama like made phone calls or something to organize ISIS. He says thing people think are deep analytical metaphors. No he’s 100% speaking literally. It reminds me of the episode of the office where Kevin makes a sales analogy about the cookie and the CEO thinks he’s a genius but we all find out at the end that he was literally just talking about the cookie.
15. The Ted Cruz speech.
I am an independent with Libertarian leanings (Raised Sunni but now Athiest, OIF vet), and tried to come around on Trump because I dislike what Hillary stands for so much (oligarchy, corruption, hypocrisy regarding gay rights, rape, etc. turning a blind eye). I was convinced that the RNC would warm me up to being okay with Donald Trump in office, despite what he says about my people, despite his protectionist measures that would probably destroy the economy, etc. I wanted to be okay with casting a vote for Trump.
Then the RNC happened. Such negative undertones for the whole event. I am not a Ted Cruz fan, for obvious reasons. But watching Ted Cruz give a compassionate speech where he pivoted away from conservative Christianity base (Cruz started his campaign at Liberty University, chased the conservative Christian vote, then saw Donald Trump siphon that base away as well as the LU endorsement) and hinted at Libertarianism was probably the most optimistic speech I heard watching the RNC.
Cruz championed rights for people despite their race (uncharacteristically mentioning Athiesm and Islam, which were strong points for me) and sexual orientation, AND THEN the crowd went silent when he mentioned the family of Alton Sterling. I was thinking, WTF is this guy doing. Then he said vote your conscience, vote for people who would protect the Constitution (which I spent five years of my life doing), and the crowd started boo-ing. It just got so violent. And I realized, the people who are supporting Trump want authoritarianism and are unable to functionally reason. And ironically, these are probably the same people who were screaming “Rule of Law, not Rule of Man” back when Obama was elected.
So to see these people turn so violent at one of their own just because he wouldn’t say some magic words, I decided that I could not align with this guy or his supporters. I decided that night that I would vote my conscience, which in this case, is a guy who probably won’t even hit 10%. All of the crap that Trump said since the RNC (SPECIFICALLY GOING AFTER THE KHAN FAMILY WHICH HITS HOME IN MORE WAYS THAN YOU CAN EVER IMAGINE) just proved Cruz right, and made me more okay with my decision. I think a vote for Trump is a wasted vote.
As for Hillary, yeah, I still hate her, but I hate her and Trump equally now, and I think a Clinton presidency is better for the economy. So I don’t care if she wins. The markets like predictability and slow incremental change.
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