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Waiting on Trumpers to wake up? Misplaced effort. The real path forward is mobilizing independents & the disillusioned—not with fear, but with real solutions that ease daily crisis & economic suffering.

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There’s a recurring expectation among liberal commentators and political strategists that those supporting Trump will, at some point, come to recognize that his policies are fundamentally harmful to their own material interests, and will therefore abandon him. This is unlikely. Mass political behavior is not governed primarily by rational evaluation of self-interest, but by deeper ideological currents, identity, and the successful manipulation of resentment and fear. More to the point, the fixation on converting Trump's base overlooks a far more critical and often neglected reality: they do not constitute the numerical or strategic majority. The pivotal demographic consists of the independents, the disillusioned, the non-voters—those who have been systematically alienated by a political system that offers them little more than managed decline and daily precarity. Mobilizing these groups requires more than moral denunciations or reminders of Trump’s transgressions. It requires credible commitments to policies that tangibly alleviate suffering and restore a sense of democratic agency—jobs, healthcare, housing, climate stability. Absent that, appeals to decency or fear of authoritarianism will continue to ring hollow.
April 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM