One of my old friends from high school has, in the intervening years, become a hardcore conservative. Breitbart, FOX, the whole nine yards. As far as I can tell, he’s never met a conspiracy theory about the Clintons he didn’t like. During the election he commented that liberalism was a mental disorder. You get the picture. He’s been all-in for Trump pretty much ever since Trump declared he was running. And although he’s been fairly silent on social media about Trump for awhile, I’ve had no indication that he was souring on him.
Well, today on FB I noticed he commented on Donald J. Trump’s FB page.
Unfortunately, I didn’t copy the post, but I’ll post it as close as I can recall.
“You lied. You said you would get rid of Obamacare and instead you’re giving us Obamacare Lite.”
Ok, so he wants the AHCA to be even worse. But personally, at this point I’ll take any reason at all for the hardcore Trumpsters to start souring on their Messiah. The more discouraged and dissatisfied they become, for whatever reason, the better things are going to be in 2018 or (God forbid the Orange One go unimpeached by then) 2020 for us as those folks will be more likely to stay home or bolt to a third party.
It’s one anecdote, one comment, I know. But take from it what you will.