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1. People in normal political circles fail to grasp Trump repeatedly. They see his lack of discipline and how ineffective he was or his moral failings and assume it must be because Trump is a charismatic figure and people vote for him are in a cult of personality. This is wrong.
2. Far more important is the FACT of Trump and his relationship to his voters. The people who vote for him see him as a symbol. Your hatred of Trump is seen as your hatred of the American people who vote for Trump. If the system thwarts Trump it is a rejection of them.
3. You reject their will when you reject Trump. When you prevent Trump from building the wall, you are saying to the people, “we love immigrants more than you.” When you prosecute Trump, you are prosecuting them.
4. When you “fortify” the elections you are telling these people that their vote, their will does not matter. Every rejection of Trump, every time you fight against him, you are heightening the tensions and contradictions within the system, pushing it to a breaking point.
5. I get that you hate Trump.
You find him gauche, immoral and see him as a buffoon. But every time you oppose him you are expressing your opposition to the participation of those who vote for him in the system.
6. What has become abundantly clear is you want their vote, their donations, but then they are supposed to shut up and go home and let their “betters” run the show. On issue after issue you have ignored them and looked out for yourselves.
7. They are fed up. They want their factory jobs back. They want to know that if their sons do well in school they can get into Harvard. They want the border closed and probably 5 million migrants deported.
8. They want an end to abortion. If not an outright ban, a willingness to restrict it to only incest, rape and an actual life threat to the mother. That’s it. No elective abortions. They don’t want their kids trans in the schools.
9. They don’t want their kids to die in stupid wars. They don’t want 40+ billion of borrowed/printed money to go to protect the Ukraine. Etc, etc, etc, etc…
But again and again they have been told they can’t have any of this because it threatens tax cuts. What a joke.
10. You go ahead and try to convince yourself that it’s a cult of personality.
What the people want is for you to work with Trump to get him elected and make the people’s agenda a success. They want you to go to bat for Trump, for them.
11. You have to see Trump as a distilled symbol of the people’s discontent with your position of privilege and influence. Every time you oppose Trump, you justly their attachment to him as a symbol. You must embrace the people’s opposition to the regime. All of it.
