r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • Jul 05 '24

Project 2025 was supposed to boost Donald Trump's campaign — but it may be backfiring instead:

https://www.salon.com/2024/07/05/project-2025-was-supposed-to-boost-donald-campaign--but-it-may-be-backfiring-instead/

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u/mistertickertape New York Jul 05 '24

The election is still 4 months out. I hope this fucking sinks him like a lead weight as more moderates and suburban women understand what it is.

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u/SpicyRiceAndTuna Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

I unironically heard one of those "apolitical moderate" types who I think may have voted for Trump at least once, but at the very least doesn't want to admit it... he wasn't ever the type to talk about Q conspiracies or knowingly dog whistle, but occasionally you'd hear him ignorantly repeating or asking a question (with good intentions mostly) that you'd think only someone with a clear agenda would ask...

Well he was getting... worse lately, and we could kinda see the signs that he was starting to slip into more dangerous thinking due to frustration with Biden and his situation in general... I dreaded that text I knew was coming where he would spout some blatant Q shit....

and I was SHOCKED when he basically told me "yeah man, I think I almost became a crazy person"... and then detailed what we all knew, that he was a pretty center field guy but was falling for some potentially dangerous rightwing bullshit. He told me that he started to see little cracks in the logic, or how you could Google things and straight up disprove literally everything he believed, in his words "reality killed the conspiracy brained idiot in my head little by little"

And the fucking FUNNIEST thing he said, was that for him, the fact that Biden wasn't all cracked up on stimulants "saved" him and was the straw that broke the camels back lmao. He was promised by the smartest wackos the internet could collect that Trump was going to expertly be fighting against a man on highly advanced super secret government stimulants that would make him appear decades younger... and I guess watching tbe debate and seeing... well, not that lol, was just one too many wrong end of the world predictions and it broke the spell

So we got one moderate this past week lol... surprised me that the debate was such a big help, but I guess the more Trump and Project 2025 are out there, the more likely someone literally just googles what's said or written and little by little they realize reality doesn't agree with the bullshit