Manchester, 2012. Lewis Bigmore places his first-ever bet, aged 16, and wins £64,000 ($80,000). He realises immediately that this is a life-changing moment, he just doesn’t realise that it will change his life for the worse.
That's the best analogy by far: addiction. Trump is a high for people: a snort of pure cocaine. He's heedlessly breaking all the china in the shop and upsetting the liberals and how great is that? So yes: no amount of logic, reason, civic pride--whatever--is going to course-correct Trump supporters.
"And until they do, until voters can look at a Democratic candidate and feel hope and confidence and dare I say, pride, they’ll keep hoping that the next bet on Trump will beat the odds."
There's the rub. I have a number of friends who voted for Trump. Only one of them is a true MAGA. The rest were voting against the Democrat or the cackling jackass specifically. There is no need for me to list the reasons for that. Perhaps your words that I quoted encapsulate it.
"The rest were voting against the Democrat or the cackling jackass specifically."
I've actually found that former Democrats are among the most heavily Trump addicted. It's been fascinating to speak to people who I remember talking to between 2020 and 2023 and see them completely flip into MAGAmania in 2024/5.
It's one thing to vote against Harris/Biden. I can kinda, sorta understand voting for Trump to oppose them. What I can't understand is the blind defence of Trump's more insane/dishonest/anti-democratic behaviour.
That's the best analogy by far: addiction. Trump is a high for people: a snort of pure cocaine. He's heedlessly breaking all the china in the shop and upsetting the liberals and how great is that? So yes: no amount of logic, reason, civic pride--whatever--is going to course-correct Trump supporters.
"And until they do, until voters can look at a Democratic candidate and feel hope and confidence and dare I say, pride, they’ll keep hoping that the next bet on Trump will beat the odds."
There's the rub. I have a number of friends who voted for Trump. Only one of them is a true MAGA. The rest were voting against the Democrat or the cackling jackass specifically. There is no need for me to list the reasons for that. Perhaps your words that I quoted encapsulate it.
"The rest were voting against the Democrat or the cackling jackass specifically."
I've actually found that former Democrats are among the most heavily Trump addicted. It's been fascinating to speak to people who I remember talking to between 2020 and 2023 and see them completely flip into MAGAmania in 2024/5.
It's one thing to vote against Harris/Biden. I can kinda, sorta understand voting for Trump to oppose them. What I can't understand is the blind defence of Trump's more insane/dishonest/anti-democratic behaviour.