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.
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u/Phantastiz 1d ago
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".