DAVID MARCUS: In deep blue Philly, the libs think we regret voting for Trump

PHILADELPHIA – I met Greg, who is astir my age, arsenic we some had an aboriginal meal successful Center City, and portion our speech was calm and friendly, arsenic a progressive Democrat, helium is precise virtually frightened and adjacent aggravated astir President Donald Trump successful ways that look to maine wildly implicit the top.

"If I had to propulsion a weapon connected a Republican, that’s what I’d person to do," Greg told me. "This is the top crossroads successful our state since the Civil War."

It didn’t consciousness peculiarly threatening. Even though helium knew I americium a Republican who voted for Trump, I figured helium didn’t mean me.

But helium definite arsenic hellhole meant something.

Greg, who I met successful Philadelphia, can't judge Republicans are blessed with President Trump's performance. (Fox News Digital)

Later successful the day, successful a drowsy West Philly of large houses which is truthful acold to the near it makes Center City look similar Texas, I talked to 3 students. I was funny if they had experienced strained relations with friends oregon household implicit politics.

"Yes," 1 young pistillate told me, "but not often, I deliberation I’m a bully justice of character." The wide connection was that anyone who would ballot for Trump is not idiosyncratic she oregon her friends privation thing to bash with.

Our speech was chopped abbreviated aft they told maine Trump’s DEI cuts were a large contented for them, to which I asked, what bash you mean by DEI? At that, they moved to different table. Once again, it wasn’t unpleasant, but it was pointed.

The sheer gait of alteration nether Trump thrills his supporters, but 1 bookstore proprietor seemed fearful. (Fox News Digital)

Down the block, astatine a charming section bookstore, John, the owner, was benignant capable to find maine a publication by Mary Beard I hadn't read, and to speech a small politics. 

"It’s a batch of alteration each astatine once," helium told maine ominously, echoing thing I perceive from a batch of voters.

One happening that astir each the Democrats I person spoken to successful the City of Brotherly Love look to judge is that determination are ample swaths of Trump voters retired determination successful the hinterland who indispensable surely regret having voted for Trump.

We saw this cognition connected "Real Time with Bill Maher" implicit the weekend, erstwhile impermanent Batya Ungar-Sargon shocked him by saying not lone does she not regret her ballot for Trump, but that she is arrogant of it.

I faced akin incredulity from Greg: This assumption, based connected slim to nary specifics, that Trump’s actions this clip astir person been truthful drastic, that surely we indispensable recognize what a profound mistake we made voting for him, adjacent if we can’t accidental truthful successful bid to prevention face.

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Or truthful they believe.

Much of this comes down to bubbles, and no, it isn’t conscionable progressives who unrecorded successful them. In my small West Virginia town, it's perfectly mean to spot MAGA hats successful the Walmart, and fewer radical look to deliberation Trump’s presidency is simply a crisis. So, to what, exactly, are radical successful Philly and different bluish enclaves reacting truthful dramatically?

One happening I sensed from everyone I spoke to was that this iteration of a Trump presidency seems wholly unrestrained to them. This time, determination are nary Republicans similar John McCain to amusement Trump a thumbs down, nary furniture members urging restraint. This is Trump unleashed.

It isn’t adjacent astir results, due to the fact that successful 2 months the results of Trump’s policies are not successful yet. It is astir the actions themselves. 

The firing of national workers, the tariffs connected our allies, a friendlier attack to Putin, deportations of amerciable immigrants, adjacent thing arsenic mundane arsenic renaming a definite assemblage of h2o "The Gulf of America," consciousness similar idiosyncratic attacks to galore Democrats. And determination is thing they tin bash to halt it.

At slightest successful the abbreviated term, determination does not look to beryllium thing that tin extinguish each the hairsbreadth connected occurrence connected the progressive left.

But, amid the overwhelming and unhinged absorption to Trump among Philly’s Democrats, I did conscionable 1 Republican, a tourist, who offered a spot of a informing motion for the Trump administration.

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"I’m arrogant to beryllium a Republican, and to person voted for Trump," helium told maine implicit a late-night cigaret extracurricular our hotel, "but these tariffs person maine nervous." I pressed him connected wherefore and helium said, "I’m a salesman. If everything we merchantability from Mexico shoots up successful price, we don’t cognize what to do."

"Well," I queried, "how agelong bash you deliberation it would instrumentality for that manufacturing to determination to the U.S.?"

"Two, 3 years," helium said. "But I’m not dealing successful 2 oregon 3 years, I’m dealing successful 2 oregon 3 months."

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One happening everyone agrees connected is that Trump is moving fast. For some, that causes horror. For others, it is thrilling. But Democrats are overmuch mistaken if they deliberation Trump voters are expressing regret, adjacent the ones who are a spot nervous. 

Donald Trump is, aft all, doing precisely what helium promised to.

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