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    I don’t normally pick at the physical appearances of people just for the sake of it, but I’ve noticed that Trump attracts a certain type of follower. Take a look at the people in the background of the next Trump rally and tell me what you see.

    Those people and these people are the same. Just a bunch of trashy hillbillies. These klansmen are not the fringe supporters of Trump’s cult, they’re the ones down in the front. Like wax statues melting in the sun, their eyes glazed over enraptured as word salad pours out of Donald Trump’s mouth.

    And don’t say “well that guy wearing the klan outfit is just a troll, the other people there are not associated with that!”. If you’ve got one Nazi in a bar full of people, you’re in a Nazi bar. If you’ve got one klansman at a Trump rally, you’re at a klan rally.

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      Other than the presence of the Klan, those are normal people. This is exactly the kind of elitism they talk about encountering.

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        oh don’t mind him that’s just Freddy, he don’t like 'em colored folk and gays, he’s a good kid, I knew his momma

        Are you fucked în the head? “other than the presence of the Klan, those are normal people” what in the shit does that mean? Why the fuck is the Klan present there? Why is nobody chasing them away? How the shit are you doing anything in your life and you see goddamn nazis next to you waving the swastika and you don’t stop to think “yo, maybe I shouldn’t be here”? How do “normal people” end up mixed with Klan members and just roll with it, motherfucker? HOW?

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          Because the comment I replied to called all Trump rally goers hillbilly trash in a general sense. Yeah the people in this picture have an issue. Calling everyone who supports Trump hillbilly trash is exactly the elitist take the far right feeds on.

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              Okay. Find me the picture of klan robes at a Trump rally. If you want to color the entire movement you need that evidence. Not 5 people in the middle of nowhere.

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                Slightly different than what you’re asking, but in the same line of thought:

                https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nazis-mingle-openly-cpac-spreading-antisemitic-conspiracy-theories-fin-rcna140335

                You can also search “nazi flag at trump rally”, and get loads of pictures of people at his rallies carrying flags of hate. Just because they’re not necessarily allowed wearing clan hoods does it mean everything is a’ok.

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                  No sir. I’m not seeing that with “Nazi Flag at Trump Rally” and CPAC isn’t even on the radar of the average voter. Most people have their interaction with Trump at his rallies and via conservative news. I’m not saying everything is okay. The man brought back 1800’s xenophobic myths on the national debate stage. But again the average voter isn’t thinking about it that way. They’re engaged with it in a fearful way because that’s how Fox News gave it to them.

                  And you guys are still massively missing the point. This is a third of our country. Alienating them plays into the hand of extremists. They need to see they’re wrong. Not be shunned out of a society that killed their jobs, left them in broken towns, brought them the opioid crisis, and ignores their needs. They are the epitome of believing government is broken because the Republicans broke it. And you can’t fix that by calling them trash. You have to find a way to bring them good governance again. Get them back into mainstream stuff.

                  This entire flipping thread has been nothing but a project in othering. And you can’t do that to 33% of your country without severe consequences.

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              Sure. Judge them for attending a Trump rally. But don’t call them trash people.

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                People like the ones you’re responding to struggle to fully comprehend that they’re literally attempting to characterize half the country.

                A different thread wants to put them all into a “magat map.” Putting aside the dubious idea that mapping the locations of a group of people they’re referring to as literal vermin isn’t gross to begin with, you would be mapping the location of half the population of the United States.

                Harris is losing momentum according to polls and Trump is slowly but steadily rising. It’s on average every other person you meet. Disparaging them does nothing except fuel the the charges of elitism, as you note.

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        Normal people don’t hang out with klansman, we beat the shit out of them.

        These people are far from normal. They’re downright weird.

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            As a German I have a solution:

            If we see a Nazi, we punch them. And with see, I mean specific symbols, clothing or other specific identifiers.

            If I’m on a trump really, I should be able to punch the people in KKK outfits, the ones with swastikas, and the ones with old flags representing nationalism. And I should also be able to call the rest of them out.

            I like this solution. It’s a pretty straightforward one.

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              That’s the problem. There is no evidence of specific symbols at Trump rallies. The commenter above has conflated the people in this picture with all Trump voters.

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      Well, I count five of them. CT hasn’t been a swing state since Reagan. I wouldn’t be too worried about that changing this cycle.

      But just like with other big blue states, like California and Illinois, you often see the perennial losers go full freak mode as a form of coping. Its the same way you see folks in Austin, TX or Miami, FL going full hippie-bumper-sticker on their cars and bikes. Folks sometimes think being louder is a substitute for being more popular.

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        No this is honest. I travel a lot for work and I feel like I see more Trump signs in CT than I did in KY. Not to say that there aren’t more Trump supporters in KY, but they are a LOUD minority

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      Unless you shoot them first. Edit: please don’t shoot anyone. This is not a call for violence

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    Come on folks. Do you think the actual KKK would have a sign saying: “Trump: Endorsed by the KKK!”

    I mean Trump took an avowed white nationalist Laura Loomer to a 9/11 ceremony. We don’t need to find evidence out there that Trump is racist, he’s out there telling everybody himself.

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      I know some former Christian Scientist is laughing his ass off knowing that no cult lasts long if it remains tied to their leader.

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    about 10 minutes from my house, there is a house that has had a red take america back flag flying for so long it’s faded and kinda blown out. their neighbor had 2 small BIDEN HARRIS signs put up about 2 months ago. then the shitty neighbor put up a yard sign for the orange turd and his couch fucker running mate. it wasn’t until about 2-3 weeks ago when the HARRIS WALZ signs finally started making their debut, that this guy put up a 3x4 sign with a couple more smaller yard signs.

    now there’s a life-sized cardboard cutout of “thumbs up” facing out the front door

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      These people are genuinely insane. The locals in CT act genuinely surprised when they get any pushback against their Christo fascist asses. There’s one guy who has been sitting out on Rt-6 that I make sure to flip off every time I see him and every time he makes a big stink. I know I’m far from the only one doing it though

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    The “great” times, half the US fantasize about, but then most of them will argue its always been the greatest country ever.

    So yeah, not at all surprising, this runs in the open.

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    To be honest, attending that “event” in a KKK robe would do great to show Trump voters who they caucus with lol.

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      SPOILERS FOR Red Dead Redemption 2

      There is a proxy of the clan in-game. same outfits, etc. You can stumble across them one night and they’re about to light a giant cross on fire…and something goes awry and they light themselves on fire. This is also one of the very very rare instances where you can kill non-gang aligned randos in the game, unprovoked, without a hit to honor.

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        I came across this, had fun. Took the Dirty Arty route, started lobbing dynamite at them then ran in with the shotgun. Very entertaining, and even managed to not get Arthur killed in the process.

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    Drove through New Hampshire a month ago and the road was littered with yard signs for Trump. Funny enough, once you got off the main road they became significantly less common. But someone definitely spent some time and energy absolutely littering I-93 with pro-Trump propaganda.