I have a very good friend who lives in Portsmouth, NH. He's politically independent who is a practicing conservative and constitutionalist. He hates Democrats and the establishment GOP with a passion. I was asking him about the NH primary and he suggested we get on a call with a friend of his, since they were having coffee this morning anyway.
So, this morning we were talking with him, a Nikki Haley supporting guy, and I asked "Why Haley?"
The answer was that he was afraid of Trump instituting an "authoritarian" government. He thought voting for Haley was a vote against Trump - that even a Haley loss, if she ate into Trump's support might let him know not everyone wanted him.
"So, you knew she didn't have a chance and voted for her as a protest, right?"
"I guess so," he said.
When I asked what he believed Trump would do if elected, he rattled off about a dozen Democrat poll tested responses.
I said, "You just described the eight years of Obama and the past three of Biden" and I went on to describe every situation from Obama using government for the first time in history to force Americans to buy a product to Biden's complete dereliction of duty to protect our borders. I mentioned the "Americans Last" actions of Biden and the huge generational burden being placed on future Americans.
He said that none of that was worse than another Trump administration.
I said that he was brainwashed by Democrats and GOP cowards.
He didn't know that Haley's largest donor is the Democrat "activist" who helped fund E. Jean Carroll's lawfare against Trump.
He didn't get that no matter whether you believe Trump is guilty of any of the things with which he has been charged, how the Democrats have gone about trying to get him has done irreparable damage to American jurisprudence.
Like the post I put up yesterday about kids being taught they shouldn't aspire to careers in the oil and gas industry through propaganda, the same is true for the Trump Haters. People have been conditioned to hate the man, even though they were measurably freer, the country more secure, and they were more prosperous under his policies.
Point being, no matter how much you hate NeverTrump quisling Republicans, it is not ever going to be enough.
They are worse than Democrats, worse than the French collaborators who built the Vichy government in WWII France. They are not allied with the enemy - they are the enemy.
If only they had the courage of conservative conviction I have seen out of Javier Milei down in Argentina. That dude is balls out on his policies and just bulldozing ahead.
It's a shame we have to look to Argentina for inspiration on what could be here, but I'll take the inspiration wherever we can get it!
Brainwashed is the only word applicable here. No matter how much you share the facts of what is really happening, and how the left has done exactly what they are accusing that Trump will do if he is elected again, they are brainwashed to be against the man.
Personally, I believe they have been hypnotized to react this way every time they hear the word Trump. This condition will not change until either they are re-hypnotized to stop, or they have their property taken and redistributed. And even then - as the zombie walking/talking people they are - they probably will not even realize what happened.
It begs the question - are they beyond help?