I have always wondered why the typical Trump voter has more negative things to say about their previous republican presidential candidates than they do about previous democrat presidential candidates??
Be it Bill Clinton, Hillary or Obama -- as much as they despise them all, they also talk about these people as if they are the most powerful people on the planet, leaders of the sinister Deep State, able to murder 100's of people (including people in republican controlled federal prisons), rig elections, turn frogs gay, you name it....Anyone who is able to do all of that has to be the most powerful people on Earth.
I am old enough to remember the Bush years, I remember people worshiping Bush very much like people worship Trump. I remember being called a terrorist and a traitor because I was against the idea of going into Iraq, -- I was told that you are either with Bush or against America, very much like people tell me that you are either with Trump or against America. Now these same folks pretend Bush never existed or try to imply they were never a supporter of Bush or the war in Iraq -- so what happened to these Bush voters??
I am old enough to remember when McCain and Sarah Palin were running for president -- I remember McCain saying the economy was fine, even tho we were in the worst recession in 70 yrs.. I remember future Trump voters making the claim that Sarah Palin was the second coming of Reagan -- now all of those people now say McCain was a fake war hero, a traitor and celebrated his death...And as for Sarah Palin....Sarah who??
How is it today's Trump republicans (who are mainly just regular republicans) can literally hate all of their former candidates going back 30 years and not admit that they were wrong about every candidate that they themselves voted for?? Also, how is it that today's Trump republicans also looked at Trump as a joke of a candidate when he ran for president BEFORE 2015?? Why is it that it took Trump taking over the birther movement and demonizing brown people to make you republicans appoint him the chosen one??
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Yes and No to your points above.
Trump's main role and purpose is playing meaner hardball than Reagan did
with economic policy and fighting the liberal media and party politics that all
got meaner than the prochoice-prolife politics of the 90's with Clinton and with the onset of
race/gender politics that came out with Obama's administration.
Because politics got meaner, we got Trump who talks mean
and play the trolling bully better than the other candidates
and leaders before him that played nice in comparison.
This has more to do with media and party politics.
The same old conservative positions about promoting
faith in businesses to invest in developing American jobs
and economy is the same. But Reagan came across more
positive and friendly about it, Bush got sucked into all the
9/11 and anti-terrorist politics that pitted fear based anti-American
with pro-American propaganda, and the Clintons and Obamas
brought out all the pro and anti liberal propaganda that we
are dealing with today.
If you put aside the layer from media and party politics,
the issues underneath still require the same work of Americans to
resolve.
Trump is merely serving as a mouthpiece to fight off the liberal media
narrative that swung too far negative with Obama and Clinton,
and making it safe again for people who aligned more with Reagan.
He is like a meaner version of that because of the negative media
that has gotten meaner and darker than in the 80s and 90s.
Bush was more focused on pro-military and anti-terrorism to
put up a strong united front and image when fighting wars overseas.
It's like we lost our innocence and idealism, and we're trying to
restore that positive focus; but instead of blind faith, we are having
to regain our faith KNOWING and RECOGNIZING all these negative faults and problems
we have to address, correct and resolve in order to get there.
Reagan preached this prosperity in a more "ignorance is bliss" way
where we didn't worry about the cost to the health of the environment or people affected.
The liberals brought out in public all the injustices and wrongs
going on that had been skirted over, justified by the good that America has enjoyed
and achieved. And now our job is to address those wrongs openly, not ignore them,
while still keeping the POSITIVE outlook and focus for America that liberals
are blamed for dismissing as white class privilege and more negative than positive.
It isn't that these leaders are more right or wrong than others,
but they lead during different stages in our social progression toward
a more sustainable and democratically inclusive justice.
All phases serve a necessary purpose to get us to the next stage.
And each step has given rise to different leaders to express where we are as a nation.
