Post #2914559

2024-12-16 22:07 UTC

"The core of the MAGA base isn’t people who can’t afford enough $2 packs of pasta and $3 jars of tomato sauce to feed their children. I’m not saying that person doesn’t exist, but statistically they’re not representative. MAGA is someone who earns $70,000 a year and is angry that their overpriced Whole Foods costs a bit more." #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /5

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@wdlindsy@toad.social 2024-12-16 22:08

"MAGA is someone who is angry that they might have to shift from buying their goods at a middle-class-coded supermarket to the cheaper, working-class-coded supermarket. The American Republic has been pulled down, possibly past the point of no return, by affluent people. People who have lives their ancestors would have literally killed for." #Trump #economy #race #gender #cruelty #solidarity #CommonGood /6

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@Kraemer_HB@mastodon.social 2024-12-16 23:30

@wdlindsy@toad.social In Germany in 1933 biggest support for NSDAP came from the "petite bourgeoisie" that was threatened by economic crisis to sink down into proletariat. That seems the analogon to this MAGA core.

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@officerripley@mastodon.social 2024-12-17 03:21

@wdlindsy@toad.social So true; there were a lot of big fancy homes in the fanciest neighborhoods in my town with Trump signs in their yards.

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