A Washington Post analyst said Thursday he's had it with calls for MAGA voter empathy following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, the first criminal conviction of a former president and promises of "dictatorship" to come.Political columnist Matt Bai professed himself fed up with calls from top Democrats and...

I have not heard such a thing from left leaning folks, but I’d quickly shut them down if they were suggesting pity for these people.

    • @TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
      18•3 months ago

      I have friends who’s loved ones are in the GOP death cult, they ask “what’s the point of all this immigrant and abortion stuff, they used to not care about this at all”

      I simply reply: “The cruelty is the point. DJT isn’t promising to fix anything really, he’s promising to hurt the right people.”

    • @CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12•3 months ago

      That voter that said donnie is not hurting the people he’s supposed to be hurting is a moment of one of them saying the very true part out loud.

      That’s exactly what they are about, and no one can tell me that there is not a huge contingent of them voting for this very reason and no other. They don’t GAF about “babies”, for instance, it’s about making sure loose women aren’t “getting away” with something. They don’t GAF about “the” bible; they just don’t like gay people. And on and on. None of this stuff will make their lives better in any meaningful way, but they want to see others suffer.