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lpbk2713

(42,774 posts)
1. There's always the die hard twenty percenter RWers.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:25 PM
Jan 2019


These are the assholes who would applaud Trump shooting someone on Fifth Avenue.

Takket

(21,703 posts)
2. that means about 40% of his base has abandoned him on this. yikes.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:30 PM
Jan 2019

Those people are harder to move than the rock of Gibraltar.

This are REALLY getting bad for him.

Takket

(21,703 posts)
7. yes..........
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:49 PM
Jan 2019

I assume 35% of the country represents his "base" since his approval is ALWAYS around that number.

Since only 20% support the "shutdown for wall" it stands to reason to me that he lost that 15% of the country from his base (since everyone else already opposed it anyway).

So this is losing a "percent of a percent" which is kind of confusing but just think of it as whole numbers. 35 people in the country support drumpf, but only 20 of those people support the shutdown. So he lost 15 of the 35, which is 15/35= .428 which is "about 40%".

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
12. Great post. You make clear that the great UG fear of a toxic 35% or so that is hopeless, - isn't!
Tue Jan 29, 2019, 06:02 AM
Jan 2019

The antidote, to that 35% + blob like mass has an antidote - government!

They want government. It is aspects of the Dem, etc. party that they strongly do not want, that accounts for the intransigence fof 35% plus.

Andy823

(11,495 posts)
6. Must be trumps hardcore base
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:45 PM
Jan 2019

They think trump is a god, or that he will bring on the end of times. Either way that 20% will stick with him no matter what.

C_U_L8R

(45,038 posts)
8. What is wrong with that 20 percent?
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 08:52 PM
Jan 2019

Total dumbshits. If they aren't already broke, they will be. Cause Trump will screw those suckers.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
10. My guess is that that 20% is all rightwing evangelicals and outright racists.
Mon Jan 28, 2019, 11:44 PM
Jan 2019

Rightwing libertarians may have left him because that don't believe in borders to begin with, so a wall is not an attraction to them.

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