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"He Hates the Same People They Hate"

I’ve heard it proffered several times now that Trump’s popularity with his “base” can be explained by the fact that “he hates the same people they hate”.

To a large extent, that’s true. Trump hates black people, brown people, immigrants, Muslims – and, of course, liberals. But what the Trump adorers have yet to recognize is that one of the groups he hates the most is them – the people who were dumb enough to vote for him.

He hates them: the plumbers, the electricians, the construction workers who ran to the polls to cast their ballot for him, the man who’s been ripping off his own workers for years – and has the lawsuits to prove it.

He has nothing but disdain for the waiters, the chefs, the housemaids, and the cleaners who attend his rallies, because they were stupid enough to cheer his “America first” rhetoric while he hired foreign workers to staff Mara Lago – a place where the outrageous prices keep the working-class riff-raff out.

He despises the factory workers, the teachers, the farmers, and the minimum-wage earners who were so dazzled by his bullshit, they went out and bought made-in-China MAGA merchandise while extolling the patriotism of a man who promised to bring outsourced jobs back to the United States.

Trump thinks his supporters are chumps – every last one of them. If you think he has an ounce of respect for the idiots who are stupid enough to believe his shtick, he has a bridge to sell – and he knows they’ll buy it, just like they’ve bought all the rest of his lies.

To Trump, his supporters are not people; they’re not even votes – they’re marks. They exist to be manipulated for political and financial gain. He doesn’t care if they lose their jobs, their farms, their businesses, or their way of life due to his policies. He doesn’t care if they have no access to affordable healthcare, affordable education, or social safety-nets that will help them survive should they fall on hard times.

Donald Trump loathes everything his supporters are, and everything they represent. They are beneath him. They are people who smell of the sweat of hard work – they are the people who can’t afford to eat at his restaurants, stay at his hotels, play golf at his clubs. Above all, they are people who are too stupid to realize they’re being fucked by the guy who’s fucking them.

But I do believe the great awakening is starting to happen. The farmers who voted for Trump are now facing ruin due to his policies. The workers who voted for Trump are now being laid off as the companies that employed them shut down due to his trade war.

The middle-class workers who voted for Trump are seeing his much-touted “tax cuts” benefit the wealthy while their cost of living rises, thereby wiping out the pittance of a tax-cut they actually wound up with.

Trump supporters may not care about immigrants, people from “shithole countries”, the poor, the homeless, the sick and dying – but they DO care about themselves. And the realization that they are the ones being screwed is becoming more and more obvious.

Trump once bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue without losing a single supporter. It’s possible – nay, probable – that a lot of those supporters are finally realizing that the gun he’s waving around has been aimed at directly at them all along.

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