"most Drumpf leaning potential voters for the upcoming elections could not give one rat turd about what goes on outside of our borders and are mostly ignorant about such affairs"
I kind of half agree with this, but agree with your larger point about the isolationism of the 1930's making a return. I would say that isolationists actually pa…
"most Drumpf leaning potential voters for the upcoming elections could not give one rat turd about what goes on outside of our borders and are mostly ignorant about such affairs"
I kind of half agree with this, but agree with your larger point about the isolationism of the 1930's making a return. I would say that isolationists actually pay a fair amount of attention to foreign affairs, mostly so they know what conflicts are going on so that we can stay out of them. Just like the isolationism shocks of WWI and Vietnam, GWoT created another isolationism shock--particularly on the political right where the guys who loved Bush for a decade learned to hate him in the aftermath of GWoT's failures after they gave up a whole lot for basically nothing of national gain with no accountability for the folks who had sent us there in the first place. They don't want more repeats of that, and they don't want us even giving support to Ukraine let alone getting involved ourselves there or in Taiwan.
"Can’t forget the Christian Nationalists who were alarmed at the prospect of non-Christian ‘infiltration’ into the mainstream as well."
The protests against the "Ground Zero Mosque" and the cries of "Sharia Law in Michigan" from the right during the Obama admin come to mind here. Wasn't just limited to the 1930's.
"The primary reason voter perceptions are what they are is disinformation. We don’t have a ‘low information’ voter problem. We have a disinformation voter problem and my greatest fear is that such disinformation will only worsen between now and November"
This is correct. There's just no comparison between the info environments of yesteryear versus that of today's. It's only going to get worse with AI.
"most Drumpf leaning potential voters for the upcoming elections could not give one rat turd about what goes on outside of our borders and are mostly ignorant about such affairs"
I kind of half agree with this, but agree with your larger point about the isolationism of the 1930's making a return. I would say that isolationists actually pay a fair amount of attention to foreign affairs, mostly so they know what conflicts are going on so that we can stay out of them. Just like the isolationism shocks of WWI and Vietnam, GWoT created another isolationism shock--particularly on the political right where the guys who loved Bush for a decade learned to hate him in the aftermath of GWoT's failures after they gave up a whole lot for basically nothing of national gain with no accountability for the folks who had sent us there in the first place. They don't want more repeats of that, and they don't want us even giving support to Ukraine let alone getting involved ourselves there or in Taiwan.
"Can’t forget the Christian Nationalists who were alarmed at the prospect of non-Christian ‘infiltration’ into the mainstream as well."
The protests against the "Ground Zero Mosque" and the cries of "Sharia Law in Michigan" from the right during the Obama admin come to mind here. Wasn't just limited to the 1930's.
"The primary reason voter perceptions are what they are is disinformation. We don’t have a ‘low information’ voter problem. We have a disinformation voter problem and my greatest fear is that such disinformation will only worsen between now and November"
This is correct. There's just no comparison between the info environments of yesteryear versus that of today's. It's only going to get worse with AI.
Semper Fi my man