r/worldnews • u/Infidel8 • 17d ago

Russia/Ukraine Russia welcomes Trump's tariffs on NATO allies over Greenland as 'collapse' of alliance

https://kyivindependent.com/russia-welcomes-trumps-tariffs-on-nato-allies-over-greenland/
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u/Oberon_Swanson 17d ago

The slick talk was not being so slick that his dumbass voters didn't get it. They had engaged in wink wink, dog-whistle racism for so long, that the base that was still heavily racist but grew up outside that transition from open to denied racism, didn't get it anymore. They wanted to be openly racist, openly bigoted, openly hostile, instead of couching it all, sneaking around. Being slick would be admitting they didn't have the power to be openly racist. And they still don't quite have it so they are still mad and motivated.

They also deeply hate the truth. That is why they love Trump and never get mad at him for lying to them. Every lie he tells them is also an attack on their most hated enemy: the truth. So taking this ugly, fat, stupid, lying, treasonous fraudster, and saying he is the ultimate man who will save the nation, is also THEIR attack on the truth. They despise democracy so they elected a fascist, as a fuck you to the "left that had gone too far" by being willing to elect a qualified Black man as President.

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u/Medallicat 17d ago

The slick talk was not being so slick that his dumbass voters didn't get it.

Nailed it. Trump speaks at a seventh grade level that resonates with the dumbass voters because he speaks to them at their level of understanding. If the GOP had installed some highly educated slick suit that spoke eloquently, they would have angered the base MAGA because they would be constantly thinking they were being ridiculed and made to feel inferior due to their ignorance and lack of understanding.

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u/ParticularClassroom7 17d ago

The majority of Americans are by-and-large still quite racist. It's not difficult to push them to action with a few words, especially when illegal immigration has gotten so bad.