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Trump was included in polls before he announced his candidacy in 2015, and wasn’t polling exceptionally well. His speech announcing his candidacy was relatively unremarkable OTHER than him calling Mexicans criminals and rapists and he basically said he was gonna reverse the GOP project to try and figure out a way to appeal to latinx folks and be at least a little accommodating of undocumented workers. That position was all the media talked about.
And wouldn’t you know it, Trump’s poll numbers shot up like a rocket immediately after that…
Yep, I remember that cause I worked in Mobile Alabama back in 2015 where he announced his presidency and did his first rally. The mainstream media focused entirely on the racist stuff he said, but the local media in Alabama were in LOVE with him over it. This was right after the gay marriage SCOTUS ruling too. There were local preachers in Mobile who were championing him as a savior that would go after the gay sinners (it’s forgotten now, but Alabama was refusing marriage license and had a huge scandal trying to jail someone for approving a same sex marriage).
Liberals and the mainstream media just don’t get it and I’m convinced after 4 years, they don’t want to get it. They truly believe the myth of the “good Republican”, so they focused on how mean and hateful Trump was, despite that being the reason conservatives fell in love with him. He says the quiet parts out loud. He don’t use the same coded language that previous Republicans would use. Libs have basically lived in a fantasy land since Obama was elected and they thought racism and bigotry just magically went away until Trump came along and made it magically return.
The more desperate and insecure people are the easier it is for them to hate each other based on group identifiers. Rs and Ds drive everyone into precarious poverty then act shocked when racism, sexism, homophobia etc magically sprout up. What the hell were they expecting.
