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Comment by mattnewton | Hacker News Reader

American voters no longer agree on what made America special.

Yes, misinformation won. But when Trump actively cuts benefits, cuts jobs, cuts research, asks for bribes openly, quid pro quo everywhere, town halls unanswered - do voters in America feel willing to change their votes?

Are voters willing to strike until the President resigns? Or are people ok with the country being sold to third world style corruption that is happening right in front of their faces?

American voters are insulated from a lot of that, which is one of the reasons the misinformation works.

Think about the number of moving parts between a federal job cut and most private-sector individuals feeling it. Or between research and the years before the dried-up pipeline slows down the country's progress. And most Americans don't attend, nor are interested in, town halls.

They've already forgotten that the President literally robbed his own people with a meme coin.

Yep. They got scammed by their own president - a convicted felon who caused a coup.

America is well and truly doomed thanks to apathy of the people.

One of Trump's major political strengths has been his consistent stance, in contradiction to the Republican mainstream, that Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid should not be cut. That's why he does so much better with lower income voters dependent on those programs than McCain or Romney could. I definitely think voters will turn on him if he changes his mind and cuts them anyway.

One of Trump’s major political facets is that he functions as a sort of rorschach test for supporters to read their own favorite issues and stances into even when they aren’t supported by what he has said. Immigration “he won’t deport the ones I like”, on abortion “he will ban it / he will not ban it”, on the economy “he will lower my taxes / lower the deficit”, and on entitlements “he will protect my social security check / he will curb social security spending by cutting fraud”.

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