Loyal three-time Trump voter in Florida has finally had 'enough!'

President Donald Trump has split his once-durable political base over his war against Iran. As a result, a recent MS NOW reporter talking to a three-time Trump voter in the red state of Florida found that she is regretting her vote.

“Enough!” the voter told an MS NOW correspondent when asked about her views on Trump invading Iran. “Bring our guys and girls home. I don't want to see it — I don't like seeing war, that's all. We need to protect our borders and keep our family here safe.”

When asked whether it bothered her that “Trump launched this war with Israel after campaigning on no new foreign wars,” the three-time Trump voter replied, “Yeah, it does. He was a no-war president, and now we're at war. So I'm not thrilled with that at all.”

Speaking with AlterNet earlier in August, cult expert Dr. Steven Hassan pointed out that Trump voters are easily tricked by the president because they primarily follow sources that feed them information which reinforces their pre-existing pro-Trump bias. As such, it was easy for them to believe Trump would be anti-war despite his belligerent actions, from engaging in multiple military actions against the terrorist group ISIS and a pattern of strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to assassinating Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.

“We are social beings, and we're emotional beings primarily,” Hassan explained. “So a key point in my BITE [Behavior, Information, Thought and Emotional] model of authoritarian control is information control. I emphasize how these destructive groups, like the Trump movement, are lying all the time. And part of the appeal is really about using emotionally leading rhetoric to scare people, to create ‘the other,’ to demonize.”

Also earlier in August Dr. Stephan Lewandowsky, a cognitive scientist and professor of cognitive science at the University of Bristol, told AlterNet that Trump supporters frequently flip on the president once his policies have a negative impact on them personally. They tend to not feel similarly compelled to do so when those policies impact others who they view abstractly.

“Look, human beings do all sorts of things, and sometimes you just look at it and think, ‘What on earth?’” Lewandowsky told AlterNet. “Being hypocritical — feeling pain for yourself but not making the connection that maybe this other person is also in pain, and maybe we should support each other rather than throwing welfare recipients under the bus so I can have my subsidy — different people come to different conclusions about that.”

He continued, “There's so much tied up in this. There's latent racism. There's religion. There's the general conservative idea that poor people are — it's their fault, they're just lazy, everybody is responsible for what happens to them.”

Answering a question about why, for example, American farmers tend to overwhelmingly support Trump and want bailouts for themselves but not other groups, he said they rationalize it by saying “because I'm a farmer, and therefore I'm not lazy, and I've tried everything, and I deserve a subsidy.”

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