[TheOtherHobbes]

Not with those popularity figures, there aren't.

Reality is there are zero pro-Trump rallies, and plenty of very angry former Trump voters making their rage felt at Town Halls.

This will only get worse over time as cuts to essential services start to bite hard.

I've said all along I think the MAGA cult thing is going to blow up in the faces of the people making this happen.

[genocidicbunny]

I live relatively close to a fairly red-voting area of the state, and have talked to some of the people at those town halls. I got the impression that for many, their rage isn't that Trump's admin is doing these things, but that they're doing these things to them. The subtext of course is that it'd be fine if it was only happening to other people, as long as their lives weren't affected.

Anecdotally, only one person I talked to was willing to admit that they would have voted differently if they knew what was actually to come (which they should have given the first take at his presidency.) Also anecdotally, many that do seem to be raging at what's happening at the federal level don't have much concern with their local politicians being cut from more or less the same cloth. Granted the local ones, especially in lower-population areas, know they might actually have to face their constituents in their day-to-day lives, so tend to spout rhetoric without acting much on it, so there's less to rage about at them.

> I've said all along I think the MAGA cult thing is going to blow up in the faces of the people making this happen.

Maybe, but unfortunately we're all in the last radius.

[rsynnott]

> Anecdotally, only one person I talked to was willing to admit that they would have voted differently if they knew what was actually to come (which they should have given the first take at his presidency.)

One interesting thing that showed up before the US election in 2008 was the bizarrely small number of people claiming to have voted for Bush. It was a big enough effect that it messed up the polling to some extent. Some unhappy Trump voters are likely claiming not to have voted, now.