That is an occasional roundup of people that voted for Donald Trump and are shocked to seek out out nobody is immune from the injury and ache he causes. Many are actually grappling with the results of their selection because it impacts them and their family members—and presumably regretting their vote.
Final fall, West Virginia voter Jennifer Piggott was a self-described “MAGA junkie,” proudly flying a Donald Trump flag exterior her dwelling in Parkersburg. Trump rewarded her loyalty by firing her and hundreds of different authorities staff.
Talking on CNN, she mentioned, “I was a MAGA junkie.” And relating to Trump firing her, she added, “I cried. It’s scary, you know, it’s a really scary thing, and I was embarrassed.”
Now she regrets voting for him.
“To cut the knees out of the working-class Americans just doesn’t make sense to me,” she mentioned. “I expected more from President Donald Trump.”
Having now spoken out in opposition to Trump, she’s now dealing with loss of life threats by the MAGA devoted. In spite of everything, cults don’t take kindly to those that depart their fold. She instructed CNN her dwelling has additionally been vandalized.
But my give-a-fuck reservoir is empty.
Supporters arrive earlier than a marketing campaign rally for Donald Trump in Gastonia, North Carolina, on Nov. 2, 2024.
She voted for Trump thrice. She voted for him in 2016, when his marketing campaign ran on little greater than blatant xenophobia. She did so once more, in 2020, regardless of Trump suggesting folks inject bleach to fight COVID-19 (amongst a billion different outrages). And she or he did so but once more, in 2024, regardless of … the whole lot.
She seemingly was by no means “embarrassed” about any of that. In actual fact, she was pleased with these votes. That’s, till she misplaced her job. Instantly, it was all about her. Different folks being damage? Hell yeah, signal her up! However her being damage? How may Trump do such a factor?! She hates him now!
Like so many others, Trump voters solely care about his harmful insurance policies when it instantly impacts them.
Why would Piggott assume Trump would behave any otherwise? He and Elon Musk promised to chop trillions from the federal finances. What made her assume her job on the Treasury Division’s Bureau of Fiscal Service was the magical unicorn job that might be spared these cuts?
That’s proper—she didn’t assume. She simply assumed it was different folks’s jobs that might be misplaced, and he or she would’ve cheered these on. She actually says that: “I expected that you would do what was right and cut waste and fraud and all of those things that you promised us before we elected you in office, but you’re not doing that—you’re creating a disaster and I don’t know what America is going to look like if this continues.”
She ain’t mistaken. Trump is certainly breaking America, however not for the explanations she says. She’s crying about her personal job. Me, I’m distraught that so many on this nation received’t assume exterior of themselves, and that individuals like Piggott can be completely blissful if solely she herself hadn’t suffered the results of her vote.
Similar goes for Malia McCool, who wrote an op-ed within the Hartford Courant crying about shedding her job regardless of years of worshipping Training Secretary Linda McMahon.
I’m a Connecticut native and a lifelong Republican. Way back to center college, I publicly championed conservative values like self-determination and self-reliance.
As a young person, I vividly bear in mind vocalizing my assist for Training Secretary Linda McMahon in a Social Research class venture throughout her 2010 Senate run. I used to be adamant on proving that the youth of America wished a conservative future.
And but, in a merciless and ironic twist, final month Secretary McMahon fired me from the U.S. Division of Training as a part of the broader Trump agenda to root out civil servants who he perceives are a part of the “deep state.”
It’s not all that ironic, really. If you’re a part of the occasion of small authorities, why would you assume your authorities job can be protected? It’s downright idiotic.
“Stopping waste would involve scrutinizing the contractors that dictate the operations of nearly every public-facing government agency, including the IRS, Veterans Affairs, and FEMA,” she wrote. “Instead, Trump has turned the federal government into Elon Musk’s personal piggy bank and treats the contractors as if they are the constituents. Stopping fraud means offering American students a safe, low-cost pathway to higher education. Instead, Trump is making student loans cost more by blocking income-driven repayment plans.”
Why would she assume a grifter like Trump or his boss, Elon Musk, would care about her? Why would they care about reasonably priced pupil loans? And provided that she works for the Division of Training, didn’t she see ALL THE TIMES Trump talked about eliminating it? For instance, at a September rally in Wisconsin, he mentioned, “I say it all the time, I’m dying to get back to do this. We will ultimately eliminate the federal Department of Education.”
Malia McCool, he was speaking about you. Congrats, you voted to finish your individual job.
However don’t fear, she’s nonetheless an excellent conservative. It’s simply that Trump and Musk are doing conservatism mistaken, see? She’ll be blissful to vote for the subsequent idiot who guarantees to harm the proper folks, simply not her.
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