@INVAR
You are taking the comments of some of the more extreme Trump supporters and ascribing them to everyone who supports Trump. In other words, your "they/them" is too broad.
Perhaps. But it goes both ways and as far as online discussion boards go - the sentiments are pretty much as described. Less in the meat world, but even there the 'with us or against us' mindset is now becoming more common. Lost several friends and acquaintances I knew for decades during the last election, simply because I would not support or vote for Trump. So - broad brushes may not be applicable in all cases, but it's a growing trend in our highly polarized state.
I support Trump, but I think the guy who wrote this article is an idiot, and I despise in particular his argument that conservative economic principles should be abandoned. The strangest thing about his article is that he said Republicans/conservatives should abandon "tax cuts", while ignoring that Trump just past a huge one. It's a nonsensical argument.
Well, if the online forums and social media comments are a barometer of public sentiment, then Conservative principles are in-fact being repudiated and Socialism's varying forms are being argued for and justified by those who would describe themselves as ardent Trump supporters... online.
Well, even one fella I know in the meat world who is a lifelong Republican is now arguing with me about abandoning everything from the abortion issue and tax cuts to deficit spending ( he's big on the military getting everything it wants). Like some here, he is tickled by Trump driving the media and Left nuts and as long as he does that, he doesn't care if creating a fairness doctrine for the Internet happens. He too thinks the internet should be regulated.
He gives no thought any longer to what happens when the worm turns - because he says it cannot get any worse for Republicans than it was before Trump. So the idea that a regulated internet would be used to suppress ideas, he thinks is no different than what we have now from the media. Payback - it's all he wants right now.
So, given my own small circle of interaction both online and in the meat world, I'm not quite as generous as you are in the benefit of the doubt department.
Point is...we should be careful about lumping into a single sack everyone on the "other side".
And yet we are being told, to 'pick a side or get run over'.
