While Utah's population and demographics would lead one to believe that in any given place there would be a good representation of conservatives it has been my experience that they prefer the echo chamber to an open debate.
Trump supporters even more than your average conservative due to Trump's direct appeal to conspiracy theorists and those that believe the "main stream media" is in whole controlled by some shadowy enterprise to provide "fake news" to shape our world view according to their fabricated reality.
What use would a Trump supporter have in engaging George Soros's paid propaganda agents on a basketball fan site?
Babe, you're implying that many, if not most, of the vehement anti-Trump discussion is directed top-down and paid for by liberal power brokers. It is beyond silly. You, yes YOU, need to pull you ****ing head out of the sand and face the reality that Trump pisses people off all by himself.
Let's see, he is anti-immigration, anti-immigrant. That is likely to piss people off. Even the white folks who many anti-immigrant white folks think their world view benefits. Many of us (white folks) have deep connections to immigrants in one way or another. Connections, relationships that are stronger and that matter to us more than our connection to being "white."
He mocks a disabled reporter. That's plain offensive to many many people. It also shows a low character and poor judgement.
He displays misogynistic attitudes in almost everything he does. Half the country is women, most of the other half have women in our lives we care about more than we care about political parties and Trump.
He does not seem to be running a competent White House. As someone elected on his ability to get things done and make good deals he is failing here the most. Even someone who supported him based on his assumed strengths in these areas has to be getting a little weary. For those of us who look upon his brand of bluster and bravado with keen suspicion, our assumptions as to his actual ability to do business are being further confirmed every day. He is a fake! I mean, one could simply look at 40 years of investment that substantially unperformed the market and have a good notion that he isn't actually a very smart business person.
His self contradiction is a major red flag. How can one trust a person who contradicts himself as much as Trump does? We don't need the media to lie about what Trump says and does. We just need to listen to him one day and then listen to him the next. It is mathematically impossible that he's telling the truth most of the time when he changes his story as often as he does. Many of us don't like dishonest people.
For those of us who take a good deal of pride in our country it is hard to support a person who is damaging our closest relationships with our nations allies and harder still to watch the U.S. become a laughingstock. The U.S. is in just about as bad of shape as I've seen in my lifetime. I feel FAR less secure from foreign threats since Trump has taken office. I hold that against Trump in a deep and personal way. I care about the people serving in our military and I think he is putting them at unnecessary risk due to his diplomatic incompetence.
Many of us have a connection, one way or another, to the LGBTQ community. When our LGBTQ friends and family are attacked, the way Trump is attacking them, we rally to their side. We will not stand by and watch our friends and family be bullied, insulted and made to be second-class citizens. People in the LGBTQ community are already at an elevated risk of being assaulted and killed. Having the President of the United States diminish their status further, emboldening their adversaries, is inexcusable.
For those in the environmental movement this administration is actively attempting to dismantle hard-fought protections and regulations. Trump is making no friends in the environmental community.
For minorities in the U.S. who face additional hurdles to success, Trump has begun trying to re-erect hurdles that it has taken generations of sacrifice to remove. Trump is no friend to minorities.
Many trump supporters cry stupid little snowflake tears about how unfair everyone is being to Trump. It's pretty ****ing simple. If you don't want to be attacked so much don't make so many enemies. It's too late for Trump. He thought he could appeal to low and middle class white people and that would be that. Well, many of us have connections outside of our "white bubble" and we are informed by those relationships. We see what Trump is doing to people and we don't like it.
I don't need to be paid to feel this way. I hate Trump for free.
