AlterNet / John Stoehr: Opinion Trump voters are pretending like they were duped. Don't believe it.

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AlterNet / John Stoehr - (archived: https://archive.ph/DRmwp ) Opinion | Trump voters are pretending like they were duped. Don't believe it.

John Stoehr
April 06, 2025

The Dow dropped 1,700 points on opening this Friday morning. Thursday, it closed after falling to its worst level since the covid era. JP Morgan Chase said it was raising the odds of a recession to 60 percent.

This is all in reaction to the decision this week by the president to put an average 22 percent tax on all imports. He called it “Liberation Day.”

As I’m watching this unfold, I can’t help thinking about something that may seem unrelated to trade, economics and the harms coming our way, but in fact is central to it all. I’m talking about resentment.

Resentment is usually associated with the right. Time and again, over the last ten years, we were told that the people who voted for Donald Trump are deeply resentful about the state of the nation: about immigrants pouring over the border, about men competing in women’s sports, about the “radical woke agenda.” The list goes on and on.

It was on the strength of this resentment that voters in this country chose for president a convicted felon and failed businessman who promised to hurt everyone in the name of making America great again.

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[cachukis]

1. Suffering fools is anathema.

Everyone always does the best they can at the time they are doing it.
Sadly, we thought we did a better job of raising our kids. We left them to the lures of capitalism, and lost.

[Raven123]

2. Bullseye. Stoehr nailed it.

Trump didn’t hide what he was going to do. There are no surprises. If they were blinded by their anger, their eyes are now open, so they can look in the mirror and see exactly who is responsible.