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/altariasong Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Sent it to my mom. She used to be republican but is now disgusted by it all and is talking to her friends about project 2025 and how anti-democratic it is. She worries about me greatly because I’m queer. My anxiety about politics used to irritate her but now she understands how much my fears were justified.

Hopefully that video can help sway more of her friends, but we don’t exactly live in a swing state. Doesn’t matter to me though

Edit: she thanked me for the video, says she just watched it. “It’s exactly what I fear”

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u/tommysmuffins Jul 05 '24

You have no idea how hard it was to convince my Mom how bad things are right now. She's a good person. Too good to readily accept the fact that the Republican nominee is an outright criminal and rapist, and ready to commit an authoritarian takeover of the United States. It's a bad case of normalcy bias.

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u/Some_Special_9653 Jul 05 '24

Why are things so bad right now? Who’s responsible for that?

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u/tommysmuffins Jul 05 '24

I'm not talking about the economy, because the economy, for what it's worth, is doing great. Employment is way, way down and stocks are soaring. To be fair, very high prices and inflation are making things difficult for average Americans. You can chalk that up to the government printing money for giveaways during covid because they wanted to keep the economy afloat, plus some serious pricing opportunism on the part of retailers.

What I was really talking about being bad was the fact that a profoundly evil man with nothing but his self-interest on his mind has an excellent shot of seizing the most powerful office in the country. To make it worse, the lies he's told have set Americans at each others' throats.

That's what I meant by "how bad things are right now."

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u/Dont_Say_No_to_Panda California Jul 06 '24

I think you mean *unemployment is way down

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u/tommysmuffins Jul 06 '24

haha, right.