In the twilight zone known as the Trump presidency, two of his now-former supporters are upset that they voted for him. One former supporter is disillusioned for good reasons, and the other…well, I did mention twilight zone, now didn’t I?
Two Trump supporters in a nutshell
In one instance, Michigander Jason DeFrain is disheartened because Trump is backpedaling on so many of his promises. And in his own words, he says he feels cheated.
“I kinda feel dumb, honestly,” he told one MSNBC host.
But he didn’t feel that way when MSNBC interviewed him in February, when he was optimistic.
“He has answers, sometimes we don’t like them, sometimes he offends the crap out of people. But he has answers,” said DeFrain, who’s voting in a presidential election for the first time.
Trump’s behavior during his first 100 days has definitely changed his mind, however.
“I feel like I was bamboozled, I really do,” DeFrain said. “Jeez, he fooled me and I feel kinda dumb. I feel mad and I feel kinda dumb, honestly.”
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The other unhappy camper is irked because Trump doesn’t hate Jews. Now, remember, I did say there was an element of the twilight zone in here, and this guy is it.
Art Jones, an avid Holocaust denier who likes to play dress-up in Nazi clothing, and who has been celebrating Hitler since the 1970s is really, really angry.
“I’m sorry that I voted for the son of a bitch, I really am,” he said. “I’m embarrassed that I voted for him.”
Jones was talking to The Guardian’s Lois Beckett, telling her that he dropped Trump because the billionaire real estate mogul relies on the Jewish lobby and because his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is also Jewish.
It seems that he and several other of his neo-Nazi chums were having a little heavily-armed get-together at a local Walmart in Pikeville, Kentucky in preparation for a rally being held on Saturday.
What makes this guy frightening is the fact that ran on the GOP ticket in Illinois in 2012 and 2016, taking a shot at the U.S. Congress. Fortunately he lost, but when he was running the first time around, he said he voted Republican 90 percent of the time.
And this former member of the Nationalist Socialist Party is a major holocaust denier.
“As far as I’m concerned, the holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews,” Jones said. “It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe in books, movies, plays and TV.”
By comparison, DeFrain was considerably less delusional, and for a while, entertained the idea that Trump was trying to appeal to Democrats as well as Republicans. But he soon found out he was wrong.
“He was really open, willing to work with both sides of the fence,” DeFrain noted. “Then more Russian stuff started piling up, he’s saying he’s being wire-tapped, he’s on Twitter, says this about this person…”
Then Trump was becoming very aggressive and that was what really bothered him. Bombing Syria, talking aggressively about North Korea and dropping the “Mother of all bombs” on Afghanistan.
That was enough for DeFrain, who threw in the towel on Trump. But it wasn’t enough for Jones. While many former Trump supporters are on the fringes of society, there are also many out there on the extreme edges and it’s very worrisome that Trump isn’t racist enough, isn’t anti-Semitic enough for them.
And sadly, that may be the only good thing about him.
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