I’m not going to correct their beliefs or point out cruelty/hypocrisy, may feel good but that’s not the point of the question. Especially now, it’s important to understand where folks are coming from.
Broadly speaking, people vote on emotion and how they view their circumstances. Most Americans, in real purchasing terms are less well off than they were during trump’s first presidency. They expect and hope a “businessman” in the office will mean more wealth for them as Americans, financially, did pretty well under trump 1.0
The big policy one is immigration. Wrongly or rightly, they associate stagnant wages with immigration and are also concerned about crime.
An end to federal action on climate change. Among conservatives, these actions are often seen as wage/job killers or at the very least increasing the costs of products or taking away things people like (say, giant gas guzzling trucks/SUVs. Fox occasionally also conspiracy stuff about forced veganism etc.)
Removal of DEI stuff. Any white conservative parent whose kid doesn’t get the job/school spot etc wonders if it was because minority applicants were given more consideration. (Even among Liberals you’ll hear strains of this. As an animator buddy put it to me while applying for grants “sure, I’ll apply but I’m a straight white male, what studio gives a fuck about my story?”)
For the cultural conservatives (think heavily religious) they expect/hope sex education will be limited, avoid talk of gender identities etc. Similar changes, somehow stopping trans female athletes playing in university women’s leagues or some such.
They also seem to expect the deficit to be reduced because “businessmen will run the government like a business, get rid of bloat and get the country not paying more on the interest on its debts than on the military.”
Finally, apparently world leaders respect trump so no more wars etc.
Again, I’m not correcting or advocating for these beliefs. These are just what I understand Conservatives to want/expect.
A few things.
I’m not going to correct their beliefs or point out cruelty/hypocrisy, may feel good but that’s not the point of the question. Especially now, it’s important to understand where folks are coming from.
Broadly speaking, people vote on emotion and how they view their circumstances. Most Americans, in real purchasing terms are less well off than they were during trump’s first presidency. They expect and hope a “businessman” in the office will mean more wealth for them as Americans, financially, did pretty well under trump 1.0
The big policy one is immigration. Wrongly or rightly, they associate stagnant wages with immigration and are also concerned about crime.
An end to federal action on climate change. Among conservatives, these actions are often seen as wage/job killers or at the very least increasing the costs of products or taking away things people like (say, giant gas guzzling trucks/SUVs. Fox occasionally also conspiracy stuff about forced veganism etc.)
Removal of DEI stuff. Any white conservative parent whose kid doesn’t get the job/school spot etc wonders if it was because minority applicants were given more consideration. (Even among Liberals you’ll hear strains of this. As an animator buddy put it to me while applying for grants “sure, I’ll apply but I’m a straight white male, what studio gives a fuck about my story?”)
For the cultural conservatives (think heavily religious) they expect/hope sex education will be limited, avoid talk of gender identities etc. Similar changes, somehow stopping trans female athletes playing in university women’s leagues or some such.
They also seem to expect the deficit to be reduced because “businessmen will run the government like a business, get rid of bloat and get the country not paying more on the interest on its debts than on the military.”
Finally, apparently world leaders respect trump so no more wars etc.
Again, I’m not correcting or advocating for these beliefs. These are just what I understand Conservatives to want/expect.