“I don’t regret the vote”: Why most Trump voters stand by him, even as he ruins their lives
Loss of your wife to possess the liberals: it looks like a satirical simulation of Donald Trump, but it turns into the story of Bradley Bartel, a Wisconsin man, his wife, Camilla Montes, It is being held by enforcing migration and customs. Muñoz is a Peruvian immigrant who exceeded a visa, after being trapped in the country during the epidemic. Bartel met illegally in the United States, but because she got married to an American and worked on a green card, the couple believed it was safe to go in the honeymoon in Puerto Rico. She is now sitting at the Louisiana detention center, where she was arrested at the airport.
Initially, a lot of reaction to this story was framed in terms of “regret”, with some ports that claim that Bartel “doubts” his vote. It is an understandable mistake. A person should be regretted taking action that led to the arrest of his wife. However, the accurate reading of the story shows that every Bartel was committed to him saying: “This is meaningless”, without saying whether he reconsiders the wisdom of voting in favor of a man who promised him Deporting everyone like Muñoz, starting “the first day“I took to Bluezki and People warned that there is no evidence that Bartel He learned a lesson, gently expecting that he is standing next to Trump.
Note what is not said: He regrets his voices or that he will vote differently in the future. Loss of your wife to possess Libs. Darkness, but here. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n …
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On Wednesday, this prediction became a reality, With Bartel tells Newsweek“I do not regret the vote”, even when people were asked to donate to Gofundment to raise money for Muñoz bonds. He wrapped himself in a knot to meet that this was not Trump’s mistake, and insists that “he did not create the system, but he has an opportunity to improve it. We hope that all this interest will highlight the extent of its collapse.” This, of course, fake. ICE acts Trump’s orders, whose journalist Caroline Levitt explained in January: “If the individual exceeds his visa, they will be illegal immigrants in this country, and they are subject to deportation.” Bartel had seen this, if he read the story of the United States of America today about the ordeal of Monoz, but I bet he did not. Usa today is the hated “major media”, and Maga refuses to trust her, even if she has useful facts based on facts, such as Trump’s seriousness about this deportation agenda.
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Nothing of this is one bartel outside. On the contrary, the reason why it was easy to predict how to react is that this is a typical for most Trump’s voters, whose loyalty exceeds the Maga list reliably what should be more interested, such as the safety of their families. We have seen this during the epidemic, where Republican voters – unable to admit that the liberals were right in anything, including the theory of germs – refused to take precautions and even reject the vaccines that Trump authorized himself to fund my research. The result was also expected: Covid-19 death rates between Republicans rapidly outperformed These are democratic voters.
Trump was not only in office for a few months, but he is already sliding with these voters quickly in approval categories.
It is difficult to be ready to admit that you are wrong for most people. In June 2017, I wrote for the first time about psychological research contracts Show that “the regret of the buyer” makes people feel bad about themselves. Most of everyone, at some point or another, linked themselves to the rationalization knot to avoid pronouncing the phrase, “I was wrong.” Republicans have been swimming for decades of propaganda that tells them that liberals are the most captain people on this planet, which makes it absolutely difficult to admit that the liberals were right. In addition, the most attractive characters to tramp are hostile to critical thinking and attract to the positions of “my road or highway” that do not make an area to listen to the dispute.
In the following years, Trump and Maga leaders used familiar tactics of anyone who watched a documentary on sects. The term “Trump distortion syndrome” applies to anyone who criticizes Trump, functions such as “oppressive persons”, which is the phrase cyanology for foreigners. Members do not warn against listening to the mind, but it has a threat: this is the way you are described if you leave the fold. Members of the sect under a flood of conspiracy and misleading information, and they insult their ability to think rationally and make them more dependent on the leadership of worship. Above all, soaked in the mentality of “We are in front of them”, they constantly told strangers that the strangers are trying to destroy them.
Last month, NPR ran a series of 3 parts by journalist Zach MacFor him The failed efforts to cancel the god, Those who were addicted to the theories of the Maga land plot that predict the collective arrests of Democrats and the collapse of American cities. During this series, his father loses both his wife and daughter, who ends their relationship with him instead of bearing nonsense. It is an audio format, so the listener hears his father talking about all this, and what is noticeable is how much his father is arrogant. It drips contempt for people skeptical that the electromagnetic pulse will soon wipe New York City, or that disbelief Barack Obama is about to be tried on charges of treason. Maca’s main complaint is that he does not get the “respect” he feels he deserves. It is quickly clear that keeping a picture of himself as a person knows better than all the alleged liberals who care more than anything else – even if that cost him all his money and his entire family.
The quotes are offered from Bartel’s interview similar preoccupation. “I have received a lot of hateful messages, and many people say we deserve this. And many other insults,” as she complains. One may think that Bartel has larger things that they worry about being subjected to contact that people are less than cream about how wrong and their right. Or he might think if his critics have a point, and that voting for his wife’s safety was a bad decision. But this need to maintain the ego is very strong, especially with the loyal voters Trump, so that these considerations are not issued.
Rebecca Watson at SkePchick released a discreet video On this topic a few weeks ago, he explained why there is no simple such as “to be nice with voters with their options, and we may win them.” She agrees that “a lot of Trump’s voters were victims of a complex fraud,” but she notes that this does not mean that they are about to wake up. “I was studying fraud for several decades,” she explained. “One of the most obvious ways to see if someone will be deceived is to know that they have already been deceived before.”
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He also explains, even if someone came to reject the current fraud in which it is, rarely dealt with “the problem of the roots that allowed him to deceive.” for me Research on this topic led me to the same conclusion. Once he reaches the blue moon, the person is ready to do the difficult inner work that leads to a real and sustainable change. Most extremist people, however, are lost forever. Even if he abandons the theory of worship or current conspiracy, they will always jump to another.
There are many people who can say, “I was wrong” or “I’m sorry”. However, people who have this skill tend to sympathy and self-study-all the features that prevent voting in favor of Trump in the first place. People who are attracted to Trump are often personal disadvantages, especially heavy bullets, which interfere with learning a lesson, regardless of how dangerous the consequences are.
Readers should not abandon all hope. Joe Biden won in 2020, with a small, but crucial difference of voters who persuade the swing. Bad news is that most of these people are voters with low information, which is why they were lies and social media noise to slip to Trump in 2024. The good news is that most of them did not like Trump much, and voted in his favor in a reckless manner and even well. This means that the ego is not selected in voting like the hard -line Maga people. They may even “forget” that they voted in favor of it when this possibility becomes more embarrassing. Trump was in office only for a few months, however He is already sliding with these voters quickly in approval assessments. Think about these people like people who are scrutinized by the world of cytology once, on Lark, but they are strange in the process and never return. Not everyone who faces worship in which he absorbs forever. The key is to focus on those who did not put more than just a toe across the threshold, instead of those who walked along the way and closed the door behind them.
