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The one thing that will turn off Trump supporters
He may be able to shoot someone in Fifth Avenue, but he can’t do this
It looks a lot more like a cult that a political movement. Trump himself marvels at the loyalty of his supporters. “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?” Trump remarked at a campaign stop at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. “It’s, like, incredible.”
Similarly, at one point as his limo pulled away from an event, Trump commented to his communications director Hope Hicks “look at these people. It’s literally a little bit sad.”
And his friend Howard Stern pointed out that “the people Trump despises most love him the most. He’d be disgusted by them.” Stern pleaded with his audience “go to Mar-a-Lago, see if there’s any people who look like you. I’m talking to you in the audience.”
To the forty percent or so of Americans who simply refuse to think badly of him, nothing Trump does can turn them off. Not his calling our troops who made the ultimate sacrifice “losers” and “suckers.” Not his unpresidential behavior at the debate. Not his tax dodging. Not his lying about the coronavirus epidemic.
It makes many of us wonder, what would it take to turn off Trump’s supporters?
