Dear Trump Voters: You're All Fucking Guilty

Every one of you is complicit. Not one of you is an innocent victim.

Democracy did not die in November of 2024 but the assholes have their knives out and it's up to us to keep them from their bloody work. Despair and surrender are what they want. Resistance is what they’ll get. Stay strong. We beat the fascists once and we’ll fucking do it again. 

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I came across an article that asked a very simple question that not enough of us are willing to answer:

Are Trump voters morally responsible for the harms that will follow from his policies?

We are not willing to ask it, much less answer it, because it makes Republicans and their enablers in the legacy press sad. Since I don’t give even the faintest of fucks about such niceties, here is my answer: Yes. Yes, they fucking are morally responsible and we are long overdue as a society to start acting like it.

It’s not a difficult conclusion to reach. In 2016, Trump voters were able to lie about why they were voting. They didn’t really know anything about Trump! They were just voting against Hillary! They were “economically anxious!”

Yeah. Sure. It was transparent bullshit back then but what the fuck ever.

In 2020, even MORE of them rushed out to vote for Trump after four years of corruption, incompetence, torturing children, shitting on the Constitution, treason, etc. But Trump lost so we all just collectively let it slide because, what the fuck ever.

But now? Now Trump voters are 100% complicit with everything that’s coming. Jessica Wolfendale, the author of the piece and possessor of the most awesome Dungeons & Dragons name ever, elaborates:

Like other forms of individual participation in a collective act, the act of voting communicates a voter’s values: the policies and beliefs they support, the policies and beliefs they are willing to tolerate, and how they view the welfare of those who are likely to be affected by a candidate’s policies. So, Trump voters who voted for him because they endorsed his racist and misogynist views are blameworthy because, regardless of the consequences of their vote on the outcome, their vote expressed abhorrent attitudes — racist and misogynist attitudes — toward other people and a willingness to support policies that will cause serious harm to those people.

Wolfendale is much more polite about it than I am but she is very clear: The people who voted for Trump explicitly because he’s a white nationalist piece of shit are 100% guilty because the harm he does is the harm they wanted done.

It doesn’t matter if they wanted economic harm, social harm, or literal, physical harm inflicted. They voted to hurt the people they hate and that makes them morally culpable.

It should be noted that Republican voters get very upset when you hold them accountable for their actions. They exist in a state of perpetual martyrdom and consider accountability offensive. At least, accountability for themselves. Republicans can never be responsible for bad things happening, just be the innocent victim of them.

But what about the other Trump voters? The ones who “don’t really like the racism” but felt compelled to vote for Trump anyway because of “inflation?”

My answer is, “Fuck those assholes.” They knew what Trump would do and they voted for him anyway. They’re just as guilty and they should be shunned for the rest of their lives as monsters.

Wolfendale’s answer is more deliberate but she comes to the same conclusion:

But it’s possible, even likely, that many Trump voters didn’t think deeply about his views on immigration, women’s rights, or trans people, and it’s possible that some Trump voters don’t explicitly endorse his racist and misogynist views. Some were motivated primarily by economic concerns, for example. Nevertheless, by voting for Trump, such voters communicated their willingness to allow racist and misogynist polices to be enacted simply to protect their own economic interests.

For the potential victims of these policies, therefore, there is no real moral difference between voters who wanted those policies to be enacted and voters who were “only” willing to have them enacted.

Exactly. It doesn’t matter if they actively wanted millions of people thrown into concentration camps or were willing to put up with it in order to get Trump’s promised economic policies.¹ The result is the same: They voted for mass deportation and the mass murder that unavoidably follows.

That means the blood is on their hands just as much as the rabid Nazis in the first group. You know the saying: If 9 people and 1 Nazi are sitting at a table and eating together willingly, you have a table with 10 Nazis.

You don’t get to distance yourself from the central premise of the Trump regime, violent white nationalism, because you liked the economic policies.² You voted for the entire package and now you’re a part of the atrocities to come.

Wolfendale sums it up:

By voting for Trump, both groups of voters communicated their contempt for, hostility toward, or plain indifference to the basic rights, welfare and even the lives of the millions of people at risk from Trump’s policies. This means that all Trump voters, regardless of their motivations, bear some responsibility for the harms his policies will inflict.

It’s important to understand that one of the reasons we are where we are is because we never hold Republican voters accountable for their actions. After Reagan decimated the middle class, no one held Republican voters accountable. They just rode off into the sunset of the Reagan Myth. The myth that he was the Greatest President Ever despite leaving a legacy of economic ruin we are still dealing with.

Then they spent eight years raging at Bill Clinton³ for balancing the budget, the very thing they claimed to want before electing a moron, George W. Bush. Bush immediately set the country on a course of economic catastrophe and racism and corruption and unending war.

When his eight years were up, no one held Republican voters accountable because they all disappeared into thin air. In their place was the Tea Party which had never heard of George W. Bush or the Iraq War or anything Bush had done. They hated Republicans! But somehow only voted for them.

Then the Tea Party disappeared just in time for MAGA to arrive on the scene and they hated the Republican Party, too! But only voted for Republicans. Specifically, Republicans who were really loud and racist and misogynistic.

So, yeah, no consequences lead to Republican voters embracing more extremism because why not? They never pay a price for it, right? Their enablers in the legacy press are always happy to help in this regard.

The Washington Post, doing its part as a propaganda outlet, immediately shifted to “We just need to understand their rage!” reporting.⁴ We always “need to understand their rage.” But they never need to understand the harm they inflict or the lives they destroy. Such things are beyond their comprehension, apparently.

All Trump voters understand insults dealt to them and their need to lash out but they can never seem to grasp the consequences of their actions. And demanding that they do? Well, that’s just another insult against them! How. Fucking. Dare. You.

Last week, I posted an article explaining how the racist dicks of the right were, once again, rushing out into the streets to be racist dicks. And how, once again, some hard lessons were coming for them. This is exactly what happened in 2017 and after several months of people losing their jobs and destroying their lives, MAGAland dialed it back. They thought they would be free to spew hate in public but got slapped down, hard. Well, here we are again.

Substack Nazis lost their fucking minds over this article. Just the mere suggestion of consequences sent them into a rage. Subsequently, I got my first death threat on Substack.

It took almost a year! I was starting to feel like I wasn’t trying hard enough to piss off the worst people in the world. But, achievement unlocked.

After I started to publicly mock him, Mr. Master Race blocked me and ran away. Fucking snowflake.

Anyway!!! This ongoing meltdown by the alpha males and ubermensch is indicative of the right’s inability to look in a mirror when held up to their face. They cannot bear to look at themselves for the soulless monsters they are. They certainly cannot take an ounce of responsibility for anything they do, even to themselves. Trump’s tariff plan will send inflation through the roof and the collective response from his voters will be to blame literally anyone but themselves.

My guess? They’ll blame the Chinese and Trump will use that to justify the coming mass deportations of Chinese men. And the monsters that voted for Trump will gleefully accept the fig leaf to soothe their guilty conscience and redirect their anger. After all, they’re innocent and they always have been.

But we see them and we will never let them forget what they’ve done. For this, more than anything else, they will hate us until the stars burn out in the sky.

Good. I welcome their hate.

There are 349 days until the first Blue Wave and it starts in Virginia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. 

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1. What policies, exactly? Lower inflation through tariffs? Can’t wait to see all the morons have their moment of clarity when that bites them in the ass. So many faces to eat, not enough leopards.

2. Which, again, do not exist, you dumbfucks. Trump ran on a platform of crashing the economy but told you it would be great because Joe Biden sucked and you were so fucking stupid, you believed him.

3. George H.W. Bush was kind of a placeholder and Republicans hated him because he tried to govern like an adult.

4. This can never be repeated enough. Here’s who the legacy press focussed on after each election:

2008 - Angry Republican voters
2012 - Angry Republican voters
2016 - Angry Republican voters
2020 - Angry Republican voters
2024 - Angry Republican voters

You may notice a pattern here. Regardless of whether or not Republicans win or lose, the legacy press only wants to talk about angry Republican voters.