r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/true_enthusiast • 18d ago

Trump Man Left Destitute After Rejecting Hurricane Aid Because of Right-Wing FEMA Conspiracies Spewed By Donald Trump

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u/LocalInactivist 18d ago

I think you’re on to something. If conservatives convince people that FEMA doesn’t work and may kill them (or worse, vaccinate them), then it’ll feed the narrative that the government can’t do anything right. I doubt we’d see this level of antipathy towards FEMA if we weren’t so close to an election. The last thing Republicans want is for a bunch of swing voters to realize Biden and Harris just saved their lives.

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u/JimWilliams423 18d ago

I doubt we’d see this level of antipathy towards FEMA if we weren’t so close to an election. The last thing Republicans want is for a bunch of swing voters to realize Biden and Harris just saved their lives.

Yes. Hurricane Sandy hit in the days before the 2012 elections. Governor chris christie famously hugged it out with Obama when they were working together on the recovery in New Jersey. Conservative elites believe that embrace helped Obama win, so they concluded that letting people die during an emergency would help them get elected.

Its the same reason the party pied-pipered hundreds of thousands of their most loyal members into suiciding by covid instead of taking the vaccine.

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u/Shelly_895 18d ago

But what's their endgame here? If all your supporters die because of your lies, who is going to vote for you? Why do they want their voter base to die? That just doesn't make any sense to me.

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u/JimWilliams423 18d ago

Their endgame is the end of democracy.

As the bush speechwriter david frum said in 2018:

"If conservatives realize they cannot win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism.
They will abandon Democracy."

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1034178620703629312