In 2021 I lived in a garage apartment in a fancy neighborhood in Austin. The house across the street was a big stucco thing with a big second floor veranda, and often several vespas parked out front. They collected vespas.
They had a Bloomberg yard sign for a while. Later, when the networks called the protracted electoral results for Bide…
In 2021 I lived in a garage apartment in a fancy neighborhood in Austin. The house across the street was a big stucco thing with a big second floor veranda, and often several vespas parked out front. They collected vespas.
They had a Bloomberg yard sign for a while. Later, when the networks called the protracted electoral results for Biden, they and their kids had a loud party on the veranda to let the whole world know how wonderful it was that Trump was out.
The thing people liked this hate about Trump isn't his administration's policies. Policies, like you say, rarely matter to them, unless they affect the tax code. What they hate about him is that he is personally insulting to their sense of themselves and the nation they think they own as the hero and ideal of all humanity. When they call themselves liberals, what "liberal" means is: relax, everything is wonderful for us, the only people who matter.
The two sides in US electoral politics on immigration are being openly and vocally cruel to immigrants, relishing the cruelty, vs. doing the same things but quietly, like you're less happy about it. There are a few exceptions (abortion) but this framework applies to many policy topics.
In 2021 I lived in a garage apartment in a fancy neighborhood in Austin. The house across the street was a big stucco thing with a big second floor veranda, and often several vespas parked out front. They collected vespas.
They had a Bloomberg yard sign for a while. Later, when the networks called the protracted electoral results for Biden, they and their kids had a loud party on the veranda to let the whole world know how wonderful it was that Trump was out.
The thing people liked this hate about Trump isn't his administration's policies. Policies, like you say, rarely matter to them, unless they affect the tax code. What they hate about him is that he is personally insulting to their sense of themselves and the nation they think they own as the hero and ideal of all humanity. When they call themselves liberals, what "liberal" means is: relax, everything is wonderful for us, the only people who matter.
The two sides in US electoral politics on immigration are being openly and vocally cruel to immigrants, relishing the cruelty, vs. doing the same things but quietly, like you're less happy about it. There are a few exceptions (abortion) but this framework applies to many policy topics.