Here’s a new video from the Biden campaign, with reactions from Trump voters to different moments of the RNC, filmed live as they watched it. Unlike many Trump followers, these people still had enough brain cells intact to see through the abundant BS being thrown around.
Here are some of the choice dialog moments:
Trump spewed on out about the central theme of making America “great”:
“We will make America stronger, and we will make America greater than ever before...”
None of them seemed to buy it. As voter lady 1 pointed out: “You can’t continue to do something that you haven’t done!”
Then Trump tried to re-write history with his depiction of how his administration is responding to the pandemic:
“To save as many lives as possible we are focusing on the science, the facts and the data...”
Again, these people seem to have intact memories, so that didn’t go over very well either:
Voter guy 1: “That has been the exact opposite of how he’s handled it.”
Voter lady 2: “He said he believes science. How does that work? And the data. Oh, but that’s right, he doesn’t want data, because he doesn’t want testing, because that elevates the numbers. Can you explain that to me, Mr. Trump?”
Later Rudy Giuliani came on as one of the long string of people loyally fluffing Dear Leader’s ego, saying:
“President Trump, with his boundless love of our country, and all our people…”
This so-called “love for all our people” didn’t sound quite right to these folks:
Voter lady 2: “Not all the people. Not the immigrants.”
Voter lady 1: “Not refugees, not people seeking asylum.”
We’d seen some polling to the effect that there was no RNC bump in popularity this year, but this video goes gives a bit more detail as to why that didn’t happen: many of the Republicans who watched it were not impressed.
As Abraham Lincoln is reported to have put it, famously (but perhaps not accurately):
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
All in all, this video was reassuring to me that there are at least some Republicans who’ve really learned from their mistakes, and aren’t going to be fooled by Trump any longer.
