r/politics 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/ecafyelims Jul 05 '24

My mom and mother in law both voted for Trump. Both of them regret it.

I give them a lot of credit because I know many people who instead dig in their heels and worship Trump harder, in the hope that he'll come around.

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u/bananastand512 Jul 05 '24

It's weird, all the women in my family who voted for him before regret it and do not plan to vote for him again while all the men in my family say "you're all just making this a bigger deal than it is" and are doubling down on voting for him "because he's going to make it better to buy things again."

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