• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Trump supporters…

    It was clear that his campaign was influenced by Project 2025

    The document was openly published by a think tank, his campaign embraced it, and yet his supporters thought it wasn’t going to happen.

    Well, you are talking about a group that, as a general rule, is not known for being readers per se. Also, they are not known for consuming even token “liberal” corporate outlets, and those companies barely covered Project 2025 as-is.

    Before last fall’s election, I remember talking to someone that mostly votes Libertarian but will vote Republican and gets much of their “news” via things like Rogan and I brought up Project 2025.

    them: “But isn’t Project 2025 just a liberal conspiracy theory? C’mon…”

    me: “Uh, it’s a published thing. You can easily find it, download it, and READ it. It’s no ‘liberal conspiracy theory’. And don’s VP wrote the forward to a book from the architect of Project 2025, so if donvict is trying to distance himself from it, he sure has a funny way of showing it by picking “JD” “Vance” to be his running mate…”

    them: “…”

    Did they bother to look into this? I’m sure they did not. And I’d bet anything they voted Libertarian for Presidential level and Republican everywhere else they could not find a Libertarian candidate, therefore, helping the Republicans. They vote in Colorado, so their thrown-away vote for the presidential race does not matter, but…