• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I get the appeal of Trump. I don’t like it and can’t fathom being the kind of person who would vote for him, but I understand why people vote for him.

    I don’t get Kennedy at all. Is it purely Q people still thinking he is the next savior or some shit?

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      Trump may flirt with anti-vaxx sentiment or climate denial, etc., but he can’t fully support those ideas. They’re very niche and he’d lose the centre if he did.

      RFK Jr doesn’t hold back on those issues. For conspiracy types he is closer to their beliefs than Trump.

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        The appeal of Trump? He’s a loudmouthed asshole. That’s appealing to other loudmouthed assholes

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        It’s about hurting the people you want to be hurt: sluts, illegals (but only from countries you don’t like), black people, liberals, gays, etc. There is so much hatred and fear and animosity built up over years of listening to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, and he is the person voicing all their pent up emotions. He makes it OK to be the assholes they have not felt comfortable being before.

        It’s not necessarily that he is their ideal person (though for some people a giant blowhard asshole is), it’s that he furthers their agenda. He packs the courts, lowers taxes, punishes the correct people, fights communism.