How far gone are Trump supporters?

OP the best parallel is probably China’s Cultural Revolution.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution effectively ended with the death of Mao Zedong on September 9, 1976, and the subsequent arrest of the Gang of Four in October 1976.

Here’s how it unfolded:

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1. Death of Mao Zedong (1976)

Mao’s death marked a turning point. He had been the central figure sustaining the chaos and ideological fervor of the Cultural Revolution. Once he was gone, a power vacuum emerged.

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2. Arrest of the Gang of Four

Shortly after Mao’s death, his widow Jiang Qing and her political allies (collectively known as the Gang of Four) were arrested by political rivals led by Hua Guofeng, Mao’s designated successor, with support from key military leaders.

The Gang of Four were blamed for the excesses and violence of the Cultural Revolution and their arrest symbolized its end. They were later tried and imprisoned.

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3. Rise of Deng Xiaoping

By 1978, Deng Xiaoping had emerged as China’s new de facto leader. He began dismantling Maoist policies and launched Reform and Opening Up, prioritizing modernization and economic development over ideological purity.

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4. Official Denunciation (1981)

In 1981, the Communist Party issued a formal resolution that condemned the Cultural Revolution as a “catastrophe” and a grave mistake. It attributed the turmoil primarily to Mao’s errors and to the Gang of Four.

Thank you for another Trump thread, OP. It had been three minutes since the last one.

What a relief!

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As long as they live in their alternate universe of FOX News propaganda and right-wing social media bubbles, they'll never wake up. They just have to die, as Oprah once said.

It’s pretty much a George Romero film now.

They aren’t very brave and they’re easily influenced. As soon as Trump is defeated & disgraced, they’ll melt away. No more ugly rallies to fuel the fire.

Does anyone know whatever happened to Q?

The US will have to go through a nationwide de-programming of MAGA ideologies.

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They’re retards. That’s why.

After WWIi, when the Western Allies were attempting to run their respective parts of conquered Germany, if you wanted any kind of decent job, you had to undetgo a de-Nazification process and certification.

Hopefully the same fate awaits MAGATs here.

R10 The proper term is "dull normals", luv.

But yeah, they're retards.

They are here to stay. Poor dumb white people who think their leader hears them.

Don't worry about Trump supporters. Rather worry about those independent voters in the center who thought that the Republicans were the preferable alternative over Democrats last November. THOSE you need to move over.

as long as they stay gone? im good.

R1 stated it best. I'm so glad I'll get to live long enough to see these MAGA motherfuckers get their comeuppance.

R9 polls mean nothing these days, especially after last year's election showed Trump far behind Harris, who was predicted to trounce him.

They're fun to speculate, but nothing to take seriously in the age of smartphones and social media.

Both polls and legacy media died on November 5, 2024.

And yet if the election were reran today Trump would crush Harris Walz worse then they did first time.

Progressives need to be louder and stronger and more progressive. They need to get behind protecting Iran and their nuke development program , they need to support stronger those in the country illegally, and most of all we can’t leave the trans behind, Support the trans is what makes us better than them

More progressive policies not less.

I don’t recall the polls predicting Harris would trounce Trump.

[quote] Stripped of healthcare

What?

R19 = J. Ann Selzer and Allan Lichtman

The second we (hopefully) turn the page on Trumpism, his ex-supporters will furiously reject any blame and get really mad if anyone asks about their political leanings between 2016-20xx. It will be a dumber version of Germany in 1946. No one who voted for him will admit fault or accept any kind of responsibility, the stupid babies.

R19 you got a time out on DL if you even suggested the polls were close or that Trump could win. We were as dumbafuckers on DL as any could be.