Joy-Ann Reid continues to shine with her observations about Republicans and specifically the Trump voter. She hits this nail on the head, and it is a narrative Progressives must use.
Joy-Ann Reid points out a Republican base reality that Trump figured out
No one should doubt why Donald Trump verbalized the fact that Trumpcare passed by the House was mean. Joy-Ann Reid’s narrative is probative.
“The thing is that Donald Trump, you know,” Joy-Ann Read said. “He does understand something fundamental about the Republican Party that Republicans didn’t understand, which is at the base of the Republican Party wants big government. They just want big governance to only be limited to them. They want, you know, immigrants to be cut off from programs. They want minorities who they think don’t deserve, to be cut off. But they themselves actually are not just for big government. They’re for huge government. And so when he tells them something terrific where you won’t have to pay, what they hear Donald Trump saying is, ‘I’m going to make sure that whatever I create takes care of just you. And we’re still going to cut the bad people out. The people you don’t like are going to get nothing. And to them, that sounds like Christmas every day”
Remember, these are the same individuals who want the government to stay away from their Medicare. The also like the Affordable Care Act but hate Obamacare.
Joy-Ann Reid makes a clear case that many of these people see themselves as deserving Americans. The others they have convinced themselves are living off the dole. Of course, that is seldom true. The fact is that it si the rural voter, the Red States that get the most from the government. The reality is that the Blue States subsidize the Red States.