People won’t like that last bit about Democrats thinking Trump voters are monsters whereas Trump and his voters find their opponents confused. For what its worth, my parents are both very mild-mannered, nice, fairly apolitical and ‘normal’ people (no bumper stickers etc.) who voted for Trump. If I were to tell them my friend or their parents are voting for Kamala, they’d disapprove but would rather move on or not let that paint how they see them as a person. Whereas when I tell that friend or more often their dyed in the wool Democrat parent about my parents voting for Trump, there is a real horror and incredulous outrage expressed there, like my parents have literal blood on their hands, are outright low IQ or less deserving of respect. And I do think my parents represent your average Trump voter more than some Patriot Prayer wingnut or white supremacist. My dad’s off the Trump train, they’ll both vote for him over Kamala though, but my mom other than being staunchly anti-abortion is primarily motivated by this attitude of being looked down on by liberal professional types for her cultural values, where she shops, her faith, not being politically correct, etc and for the way Trump’s being targeted by liberals affirms her in that.
Again, the rhetorical overcorrection on Cutrone’s part will make us point out Republicans are guilty of engaging in this same kind of counter-identification and straw-manning (gay satanic baby killers and what have you at the extreme end), but with regards to TDS and the way the Democrats have set the stage for the reflexive way people who see themselves to the left of them deal with Trump, this is worth thinking about. Dems really did get people to turn their brains off and held them hostage with moral blackmail like they were what stood between the country and a white supremacist apocalypse. And from what I understand the whole Roe v Wade abortion thing is a wash anyways; abortion will be decided state by state regardless of who’s in power, there won’t be a federal ban or mandate with either party. The two right wings of capitalist politics just dangle these handful of issues they ostensibly disagree on to differentiate themselves from each other, they’re all much better friends than we imagine in the end. And yeah glib sounding point but it still stands
