Trump shows in Iowa he still rules the GOP -- despite his deepening criminal peril | CNN Politics
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Donald Trump only needed 10 minutes to show why his growing pile of criminal charges is not yet loosening his grip on the Republican presidential race and why his opponents will find him so hard to beat.

I can’t tell you how happy I am that this criminal is going to win the primary and drag this election cycle straight into hell lol

  • FrickAndMortar
    3·
    11 months ago

    It’s so fucking embarrassing that voters in Iowa are so damn brainwashed. I grew up there, and it used to be a way more reasonable place than it is now.

    • n0m4n@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      As bad as it looks from the outside, Iowa is still a near swing state. Last election was a 44/54 split. The Republican 2016 take over gave Republicans the trifecta of house, senate, and governor. They hobbled the census, and threw out the historic joint commission of drawing new lines to reduce Democrats to have no federal representation.

      Iowa is severely, blatantly gerrymandered, done by splitting the urban centers and extending the rural left. Iowa, under Republicans, has among the lowest population growth in the nation. The older rural population is stuck, but progressive, educated young leave the state in relatively larger numbers.

      As you might guess, the educated workforce is in very high demand (as long as they do so in LCOL wages). These are the ones who are easily able to leave for better wages and amenities. On the other side, Republicans are older and dying off.

    • queermunist she/herOP
      14·
      11 months ago

      I think there’s an unreported accelerationist voting bloc that’s influencing Trump’s numbers.

      I know I have seriously thought about supporting him. When I say I’m happy he’s dragging the election cycle into hell I’m not being sarcastic - there’s an extremely stupid impulse I have to want to watch Trump break America over his knee. It’s absolutely self destructive since I’m trans and will probably end up in a concentration conversion therapy camp, but it’s hard to resist the urge to Fuck Shit Up.