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samnsara

(17,622 posts)
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 07:04 AM Nov 2017

Just HOW rampant is donnies 'base'?

.... I live in Central Wash in a reddish-blue county. A College town. I have seen NO MAGA caps and the few 30x60 trump signs in the fields are disappearing. Do his rabid followers really exist other than the ones paid to attend donnies pity rallies? I even asked fellow libtards if they noticed any MAGA caps...or t shirts...NOPE...just a few bumper stickers.

I, however, have my car plastered with bumper stickers, I wear an anti trump shirt almost every day. I leave RESIST calling cards everywhere...the Dem office had 1000 trick or treaters last night (even the R. Rep brought his kids by for candy)

We even have our own version of the KKK here who pop up from time to time with flyers but I'm guess its some 14 yr old boy in his moms basement.

So where are these people who apparently are holding America hostage???

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Just HOW rampant is donnies 'base'? (Original Post) samnsara Nov 2017 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author LonePirate Nov 2017 #1
I dont think they have as much support as they want it to look Hornedfrog1985 Nov 2017 #2
"Do his rabid followers really exist?" Croney Nov 2017 #3
surrounded DetroitLegalBeagle Nov 2017 #4
Exactly, live in the midwest RazzleCat Nov 2017 #6
A smattering in No. Cal. nocalflea Nov 2017 #5
I live in Ohio titaniumsalute Nov 2017 #7
The signs, hats and advertising will pick back up in 2020 bearsfootball516 Nov 2017 #8
Why would Trump signs appear in 2020? lagomorph777 Nov 2017 #13
You are fortunate. Here in Pennsyltucky I am surrounded by them. DLevine Nov 2017 #9
they are still here in wisconsin dembotoz Nov 2017 #10
Well, his approval rating is in the 30s. Garrett78 Nov 2017 #11
A couple of days ago mindfulNJ Nov 2017 #12

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Hornedfrog1985

(118 posts)
2. I dont think they have as much support as they want it to look
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 07:10 AM
Nov 2017

Its widdling down to the bomb shelter living, gun hugging lunatics at this point.

Croney

(4,661 posts)
3. "Do his rabid followers really exist?"
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 07:22 AM
Nov 2017

The South is full of them. The evangelical so-called Christians are unwavering in their worship of the orange Cheeto Jesus. They don't care about facts and don't listen to reason. It's all about blind faith. My own family has many of these mentally challenged people.

DetroitLegalBeagle

(1,924 posts)
4. surrounded
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 07:31 AM
Nov 2017

I am utterly surrounded by them in Macomb Twp, Michigan. I don't see much in the way of signs anymore. But I still see the occasional hat and nearly every vehicle around here has a Trump, NRA, MGO or MCRGO(local gun groups) stickers.

RazzleCat

(732 posts)
6. Exactly, live in the midwest
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 07:37 AM
Nov 2017

Trump signs going down, fewer hats, but the bumper stickers are still on the cars.

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
7. I live in Ohio
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 07:38 AM
Nov 2017

I see occasional Trump Pence bumper stickers. No more big signs. I don't think I've ever seen a MAGA red hat in person. Who knows.

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
8. The signs, hats and advertising will pick back up in 2020
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 07:43 AM
Nov 2017

Those things emerge during presidential campaigns, and we’re still a few years away from that. You didn’t see Bush/Cheney billboards popping up in 2001, or Obama/Biden signs popping up in 2009.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
13. Why would Trump signs appear in 2020?
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:53 AM
Nov 2017

Maybe Pence signs, but I don't think an impeached ex-president is likely to run again.

Garrett78

(10,721 posts)
11. Well, his approval rating is in the 30s.
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:34 AM
Nov 2017

Just as it was back when he was campaigning. During the honeymoon phase a new POTUS experiences, his approval rating got up into the 40s. But his true ceiling (and floor?) is somewhere in the 30s. That would suggest 80 or so million US adults are solidly behind him, even after all that he's done and said. Maybe half of them are the foaming at the mouth type. But they all vote.

If we magically woke up tomorrow in a world without racism, xenophobia and misogyny, that number would drop to 5 million at most. The Republican Party would no longer be viable. There's no chance in hell their economic or foreign policy proposals would garner sufficient support, absent bigotry. No chance.

mindfulNJ

(2,367 posts)
12. A couple of days ago
Wed Nov 1, 2017, 11:45 AM
Nov 2017

I drove by a house with a giant Trump flag flying right next to the American flag...and I live in Connecticut. They are everywhere.

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