• UmeU@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The positions that a lot of the trump supporters take up are whatever they all mutually agree are their positions, and/or whatever they are told is their position du jour… in other words, today they may say that they are pro one thing and con a different thing, but their loyalty is to the party, not to the merits of the positions they espouse.

    The moment they were told that they no longer feared and hated Russia, they started saying “you know that Putin guy isn’t so bad after all”, as if the Cold War never happened, as if their perceived greatest enemy for the last 50 years wasn’t Russia and communism.

    A lot of them hated Jews too until they were told that their side supports Israel.

    It’s straight out of 1984… “We were always at war with Eastasia.”

    They will easily adopt the project 2025 positions if that’s what their god emperor tells them to do.

    • DigDoug@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      A lot of them hated Jews too until they were told that their side supports Israel.

      They still do hate Jews. They just consider Israel to be a convenient solution to their “Jew problem”. Not to mention that it’s the sort of ethnostate a lot of them would really like to create themselves.