To an extent only. They have some hard boundaries, like "migrants bad". Even Trump received some backlash when he tried to tell them that COVID vaccines are actually a good idea, which goes against their idea of "vaccines bad".
He's basically repeating the same thing the maga crowd has said about how companies like Disney prefer foreigners, like they never heard it before.. but he's trying to frame it as a good idea? Boy, he's gonna have to backpedal on that real soon
Trump said, while he was president the first time, that he wanted to seize guns from people before charging them with anything. As a matter of policy that was what he wanted to do. He's on the record for this.
The NRA had some kind of performative outrage for a single second and Trump said sorry my bad, and everyone forgot about it.
Guns were unequivocally their hardest line in the sand, but when it comes to Trump, he has proven he can still just shit all over those lines.
"vaccines bad" came about entirely because Trump thought it would kill off Democratic areas - cities where people live - and bypass the largely rural areas Republicans tend to live in, so, he wanted as many people as sick as possible.
before that, the only folks who were usually anti-vax were crunchy granola hippie moms or conspiracy theorists. we just got a President who amplified and normalized conspiracy theories because he thought he'd get an easy political win out of COVID.
But now the message is “investing in Americans is a waste of time and effort” as opposed to “I love you and will give you cheap eggs 🍳 !” They might notice that Apartheid Clyde isn’t one of them.
To be fair, anyone who believed Trump on that (or literally anything he says) is frankly an idiot. The man lies like he breathes, and we've had years and years and years of it. If you don't know it by now then you just have an IQ problem.
TBF, they were probably thinking that once they stripped away power from the NLRB and undermined the unions americans would work for less pay, then the prices would drop /s
They can be influenced by bad logic because their conclusions aren't logically motivated, they're motivated by emotional reactivity and self-interest. Any logic will do, to justify self interest and personal comfort.
If Musk treads too blatantly on that self interest, there will be a backlash, no matter how good his reasoning is.
I thought Maga was for Americans 😂 NOT under president Elmo. I thought he was anti immigration, but not if it means he can save money for his companies.
They are dumb as a box of rocks who will follow Dear Leader wherever he wants to go.
Remember, the only rebellion against Trump was when he was pushing COVID vaccines. So the only way to lose them is not to push something even worse for them.
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u/notaprime 1d ago
Bad logic seems to work wonders with maga folk tbf.