bloomberg's goal isnt to target any of the members of trumps cult with anything beyond his current standing brand; 'im better at everything trump represents'.
I got you on the cutting him down to size thing here. I just have this gut feel that doesn’t resonate where it has to resonate.
I’ve been here a long time and I struggle to explain it. I have this t-shirt I’ve had for years. It simply says Youngstown Hates You.
That’s it. No explanation. When i first saw it I just thought it was fucking perfect. If I knew why it was perfect I feel like I’d be able to explain this better. It just is. There is a collective siege mentality to anyone left.
Somehow Trump manages to seem like one of us despite that being absurd. There better be a whole lot of disaffected republicans looking to jump shit. The hayseeds are just mobilized. They’ve always been red. My town wasn’t and that’s a problem. They weren’t even Reagan Republicans when that was a thing.
To people like where I live, that the other billionaires think Mike is really the smartest guy in the room isn’t something that wins them over. They’re protective of him as they would be of one of their own.
I wanted to also say when I say hayseeds, I’m not trying to be insulting to rural people. I pretty much like everyone and I clearly just write this shit off the cuff and when I reread it I tend to think I sound like a douchebag or elitist when some do these hayseeds can buy and sell me a hundred times over. And they know shit that confounds me. Like if something breaks I’d much rather them be around than anyone I grew up with. Everyone s dad I grew up with worked in steel mills or assembly plants. That’s robotic work. You don’t really know how to do much and that’s part of the problem.
I just mean they’ve viewed things a whole lot different than Dems for a long time. They weren’t Obama voters. What worked on winning them was simply wepaomized
They frustrate me, but I like them. I call them hayseeds when I’m standing next to them. They’ll bust my balls about being a Democrat and start going on about some redneck shit and I’ll tell them them to go watch a Hee Haw rerun and let the adults talk. It’s good natured with an edge as discussing politics often is.