Earlier this year, President Donald Trump described the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool as “absolutely filthy,” vowing to clean up the iconic landmark and make it “look gorgeous, beautiful” so it again reflects the federal monuments around it.
The pool is news because it is a very understandable and approachable subject. Most people believe they could handle a pool, and if it turns out trump can’t even manage a pool (with all the power of the government at his disposal), then some of the MAGAs finally start thinking that trump may not be Presidential material.
Yeah, these people are fighting an epic battle of good and evil and logic is aligned with the evil forces.
Talking to some of them, there seems to be a belief that even if everything looks like it’s going horribly wrong, then that must be a sign too that the plan is coming together differently than they thought…
It’s really fatalistic and tied up in the prosperity gospel/American mythos/calvanism. This can be a real shorthand for “everything is how it’s supposed to be because God controls the minutia of our lives so how about a thank you.” It’s how they whip the rank and file voters.
The pool is news because it is a very understandable and approachable subject. Most people believe they could handle a pool, and if it turns out trump can’t even manage a pool (with all the power of the government at his disposal), then some of the MAGAs finally start thinking that trump may not be Presidential material.
You think at this point that these people can think rationally?
Yeah, these people are fighting an epic battle of good and evil and logic is aligned with the evil forces.
Talking to some of them, there seems to be a belief that even if everything looks like it’s going horribly wrong, then that must be a sign too that the plan is coming together differently than they thought…
It’s really fatalistic and tied up in the prosperity gospel/American mythos/calvanism. This can be a real shorthand for “everything is how it’s supposed to be because God controls the minutia of our lives so how about a thank you.” It’s how they whip the rank and file voters.
The irony is that
No, the MAGAs are saying that it was antifa who dumped algae and chemicals in the pool to make Trump look bad