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Teary Trump voters regret after brother who fought with US Special Forces dies in ICE custody
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So basically, he died from the ICE "custody" likely in a George Floyd style murder, and the murderers likely brought him to a hospital parking lot and dumped his body on the ground to avoid answering any questions.
The Trump voter got the day he voted for, but I certainly don't take any pleasure. It's not clear his brother voted for Trump [edit: he's an asylum-seeker, so presumably not able to vote] and it's a tragedy either way. I just feel a little more dead inside reading this. I guess there's a limit to schadenfreude.
They voted in the Nazis, so it is difficult to empathize with them, or to even give them the smallest of sympathies. But my base humanist desires just won’t allow me to laugh at powerless people when they are crushed by the might of an authoritarian state. These people were duped by a psychopathic narcissist masquerading as a firebrand populist. That would have never happened if the democrats hadn’t abandoned the working class and ceded the populist ground to them in the first place.