That is an occasional roundup of people that voted for Donald Trump and are shocked to search out out nobody is immune from the harm and ache he causes. Many are actually grappling with the results of their selection because it impacts them and their family members—and probably 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 1000’s of different authorities staff.
Talking on CNN, she stated, “I was a MAGA junkie.” And concerning 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 stated. “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 trustworthy. In spite of everything, cults don’t take kindly to those that go away their fold. She informed CNN her dwelling has additionally been vandalized.
But my give-a-fuck reservoir is empty.
She voted for Trump three occasions. 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 individuals inject bleach to fight COVID-19 (amongst a billion different outrages). And he or she did so but once more, in 2024, regardless of … every little thing.
She seemingly was by no means “embarrassed” about any of that. In actual fact, she was proud of these votes. That’s, till she misplaced her job. Abruptly, it was all about her. Different individuals being harm? Hell yeah, signal her up! However her being harm? How might Trump do such a factor?! She hates him now!
Like so many others, Trump voters solely care about his damaging insurance policies when it immediately impacts them.
Why would Piggott assume Trump would behave any otherwise? He and Elon Musk promised to chop trillions from the federal price range. 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 individuals’s jobs that might be misplaced, and she or he 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 improper. 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 folks like Piggott can be completely comfortable if solely she herself hadn’t suffered the results of her vote.
Identical 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 an adolescent, I vividly keep in mind vocalizing my help for Training Secretary Linda McMahon in a Social Research class challenge 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. In case you are a part of the celebration 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 stated, “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 personal job.
However don’t fear, she’s nonetheless conservative. It’s simply that Trump and Musk are doing conservatism improper, see? She’ll be comfortable to vote for the subsequent idiot who guarantees to harm the proper individuals, simply not her.
