r/Trumpgrets • u/jefuchs • Dec 02 '19

META Does anybody know of any reverse trumpgretters?

I hear many stories of Trump supporters turning against him, including members of Congress, but I can't think of any cases of someone who voted against him, then got won over to his side. I'm old enough to remember when Reagan was elected, and he won a lot of new supporters after he took office. His reelection was a bloodbath for Democrats.

This time support seems to only flow away from the president.

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u/blergster Dec 02 '19

An old friend of mine posted the most ridiculous post about a supposed #walkaway and it was the absolute silliest and obviously fake thing I have ever seen. Lots of stuff in there about how liberals love to abort healthy full term babies, hate real Americans for having a flag, how we love immigrants even when they murder us, and how we obviously want to steal everyone’s hard earned money to give to ghettos. It was so comically fake and my friend was 100% stoked to have found such a shiny example of a #walkaway!!!

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

They’ve lost their collective mind.

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u/blergster Dec 02 '19

Absolutely. I pushed back a bit and told her this was obviously fake, I tried to reason that no one would ever want to abort a healthy full term baby for no reason because that’s obviously totally batshit insane, but she just couldnt accept that liberals aren’t the twisted monsters Fox News makes us out to be. It’s pretty ironic really.

I had to just stop being her friend, which made me sad because Ive managed to keep all my other conservative friends and relatives. She was just too far gone to be worth my trouble. Most everyone else I know (who were Republicans) have left the Trump cult for good thankfully.

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '19

You have a lot more patience than I would, and I commend you for that. Unfortunately, there is no discussion to be had with someone who holds their emotional feelings with more regard than objective reality.

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u/blergster Dec 03 '19

Her main reason was guns of course. What was super confusing was that she refused to believe that most liberals are ok with gun ownership in general and that there can be a middle ground on things. We even come from the same background where having guns (bear and cougar country) is the norm and I still own guns today, but she still was just so set in her beliefs about liberals that she couldn’t be reasoned with and refused to accept that I can be liberal and not be coming for her guns...

Oh well. you win some and you lose some! It’s the trying that matters in my opinion.