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SanAndreasX said:

sc94597 said:

I don't underestimate it, but you can't win or maintain national power by having the bible belt alone, even if religious grooming is heavy there. 

There aren't enough EC votes in the South. 

That is why Trump had to appeal to the Rust Belt, modern Florida, Appalachia, etc. The populations of these states vote on what they think their material interests are first and foremost. This is also the basis of the right-populist perspectives surrounding race and immigration. 

I grew up in semi-rural appalachia. The transition from voting for Democrats -> Trump has been purely about material interests here, not religion. 

I've already seen that narrative change. "The price of eggs" was 2024's "but her emails." The price of eggs (and other foodstuffs) are still going to the moon, but they're openly saying now that they don't care about that anymore, that the real importance is that Trump is implementing their ideology in government and in foreign relations. He's getting rid of all those "illegals," never mind that crops are starting to rot on the vine in Texas and Oklahoma. They're cheering over Google caving in on "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley." Ryan Walters has been absolutely gleeful that he has free reign to implement his religious agenda in Oklahoma. Meanwhile his Republican counterpart in Arizona, who is something of an ideologue in his own right, is appalled at the idea of ICE raiding Arizona schools. 

They are saying this now because they still have their job and their biweekly food-cache. Once the first is gone and the latter is empty then get back to them and see their reaction.

There have already been posts about empty grocery stores and panic attacks about losing SNAP benefits from Trump supporters and it has only been a week. FAFOing Trump supporters/voters is a genre of subreddit now. 

The largest industry in the U.S is healthcare. Nearly a quarter to a third of middle class Americans (depending on how you define it) work in the operations of healthcare, financing of healthcare, or direct provisioning of healthcare. What happens when spending on health-care decreases by 20% because Medicaid isn't funded? These are jobs that pay at the 50th - 90th percentile, and the class that works in them are some of the heaviest consumers. What happens when silent generation parents of boomers are kicked out of nursing homes because Medicaid no longer pays for it? 

What happens to the agro-industry when SNAP and WIC aren't funded? Much of the midwest needs to keep prices stable because of other government mandates. Are we going to lift price-controls and let dust-bowl #2 happen? Probably. 

Things are going to get a lot worse than this week. I doubt most working and middle class Trump voters are going to stoicly and quietly starve. Their instincts will kick in.