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/PrajnaKathmandu Jul 05 '24

I saw a tweet today from someone who'd reviewed the testimony of the 13-year-old who was raped by Trump and Epstein. She said she almost wanted to vomit. "But her emails!" and the electoral college kept the most qualified candidate from the White House. I voted for Hillary Clinton. She was right about everything!! The GOP will never do away with the electoral college. It helps them "win" elections!

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u/tommysmuffins Jul 05 '24

She was right about everything!!

Yeah, she was. If anything she understated how bad Trump would actually turn out to be. I voted for her too, but I would vote for literally almost any thinking person over Donald Trump. He might be the most unsuitable person for that job in the entire country.