GRAPEVINE, TEXAS — Joseph Bolick feels betrayed by President Donald Trump. And it’s because of the war in Iran.
The 30-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran voted for Trump in 2024. But at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gathering this week he sported a hat emblazoned with “America First” — a slogan Trump championed during his campaign, along with the promise not to start new wars in foreign countries.
“He’s lied about everything,” said Bolick. “If you go into a war where there’s no end game, how is it going to end? There’s no clear objective.”
So the war is the straw that broke the camel’s back? Not that he’s a rapist or a convicted felon? Not that he let Musk destroy the government? Or that ICE is running rampant kidnapping and killing Americans and people of other nationalities? Or that he illegally sunk foreign boats in international waters? Or that he is trying undermine the constitution they hold so dear? Or that he raised the cost of living? Or he killed a million Americans by pretending Covid wasn’t real and told people to try stupid things?
Yeah, but he’s just getting what men should be getting, the concept of ‘rape’ doesn’t make sense since women shouldn’t have a say in it
That’s just those libs falsely persecuting him you see.
The biggest thing was this super liberal sounding US AID where we help people who should be lifting themselves up by their bootstraps
You mean those spanish speaking people who don’t speak American good enough? Or the libs that deserve what they got for being libs?
Yeah, those were some of them non-Muricans again, good riddance
Yeah, but imagine how much that’ll own the libs!
Covid wasn’t real, and if it was, it wasn’t his fault and I’m sure Fauci is somehow to blame…
Well, that’s where we are now, my 10 mile to the gallon vehicle now costs hundreds of dollars to fill up, and that is what matters. All to help out some jews that MAGA largely otherwise looks down upon.
War affects their pocketbook in a more concrete way.
These people have always been selfish.
I was gonna throw another few out, but the truth is you could keep going forever. There is no bottom to his depravity, and there is no limit to his criminality. Any list, no matter how exhaustive, would come up short.
him being a pedophile racist dictator with a long documented history of lying and grifting was a good thing for his supporters. they saw him as relatable.
the problem for them is that gas prices went up. so now it affects them a little bit.
And the young Republicans boys don’t want to be sent to war ! They may be stupid but they know who gets sent to wars.
The poor, minority men who don’t have enough cash or clout from Daddy to get out of it or get cushy non-frontline positions? Cause that’s who gets sent to fight these wars. These guys would be officers sitting in offices and not fighting. And they know it as well as we do.
No, it’s not.
This is just the 100th iteration of “this time they will really start to criticise Trump”. And then the cult gets new orders and instantly they will fall silent and shift their opinion as instructed to match their new reality.
These people really took 1984 as an instruction manual.
Hard to say, because the notable people can’t generally back down. They were called out as idiots and invested their whole public image around rejecting that. To backtrack is to admit they were idiots.
For those that more casually voted for him, well, they could be shifting. Maybe that MAGA tradwife silently changes their vote, but doesn’t want her family to know.
Yup. 79% of Republicans approve of how Trump is handling the Iran War. No reasonable and informed person can hold that opinion - we are not dealing with serious people here.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w384px52no
Yep. I’ve stopped thinking any straw will break the camel’s back of maga. They seem willing to accept literally any behavior from him. Every one of these articles about disillusioned trumpers never seems to have a basis in more than one or two anecdotal examples. These headlines exist only to provide copium (or maybe hopium) to the rest of us.
History says hat the straw that breaks the back of the cult of personality is the death or disempowerment of their figurehead.
I believe you are right that nothing that the leadership does will lose them support, but if there are endictments that least to prison or key deaths, it will come undone.
I believe that when that happens the spell will break, you will have a hard time finding anyone who will admit to have supported this regime or many of its actions.
That’s entirely a matter of perspective, or more precise here: timing.
That wide outrage really exists. But it is very short-lived and just a case of “waiting on new instruction how to think”.
He will still vote Republican in the midterms and in 2028.
I keep seeing this pattern. I think a lot of former supporters are really sick of his shit and are just looking for the most politically convenient excuse to finally break with him. E.g. Joe Kent.
So… revelations around him being a child predator is not a politically convenient excuse to break with him?
The thing about that is that you can’t prove it to be true in any way they will recognize as valid, and not a ploy by his opposition to undermine his electoral chances.
With policies that cause high gas prices or other impossible to ignore effects, there is no way to cry “fake news” because there is credible other target for the blame: his person is the president, and the gas prices suck, full stop. Their understanding of these global and federal issues is very simple and lacking nuance, so they can’t be convinced that the president can’t just go into the Oval Office and turn down the “gas prices” knob under the Resolute Desk.
no, he can rape their daughters and they’ll forgive him.
Keep in mind that many of these MAGA folks are in a tribe that will make excuses for anything their idol does, and the tribe will follow because that is what a tribe does. They are in a tribe because they are weak people, mentally and morally.
Sadly, high gas prices and a correction in the stock market are somehow a bigger deal than being exposed as a child rapist.
I hope this is why
For many, they believed him when he said those were lies and political attacks.
Basically everything related to the Iran War however is easily demonstrably false. And the ramifications quick and obvious to the average person. It’s one of the reasons the admin is working so quickly to prevent news reporting they haven’t approved about it.
How about the thing these dumbasses really pretend to care about - spending? This moron has spent almost 6 TRILLION fuckin’ dollars since he returned to office and inflation is through the roof (just like last time you fucking geniuses!) but I’m gonna need a crystal ball to know who they’re going to blame it on because he hasn’t been elected yet. Whoever they blame, you can bet his last name won’t be TRUMP.
They only recognize schadenfreude when it bites them in the ass.