Trump voters didn’t take him literally on Obamacare. Oops?

[Billy Jingo]

Trump voters didn’t take him literally on Obamacare. Oops?


Donald Trump’s supporters, in conservative writer Salena Zito’s memorable formulation, take him seriously but not literally.

They will be forgiving if, say, he doesn’t literally get Mexico to pay for a border wall, or if he doesn’t literally ban all Muslims from entering the United States.

But in other areas, Trump’s supporters perhaps should have taken him literally — because they now may have a serious problem.

Vox senior editor Sarah Kliff wrote a poignant account last week of her visit to Whitley County, Ky., where the uninsured rate declined 60 percent under Obamacare but 82 percent of voters supported Trump. There, Kliff, a former Post colleague, found Trump voters who were downright frightened that the president-elect would do exactly — literally — what he and Republicans promised: repeal Obamacare.

Among those she found was Trump voter Debbie Mills, a store owner whose husband awaits a lifesaving liver transplant; they got insurance through Obamacare, and Mills is hoping the law won’t be repealed.

[Billy Jingo]

“I don’t know what we’ll do if it does go away,” Mills said. “I guess I thought that, you know, [Trump] would not do this. That they would not do this, would not take the insurance away. Knowing that it’s affecting so many people’s lives. I mean, what are you to do then if you cannot . . . purchase, cannot pay for the insurance?”

Oh, that's an easy question to answer. You die.

[80zephyr]

Lol. You got it bad Billy.

Mark

[Billy Jingo]

Lol. You got it bad Billy.

Mark

You might want to get used to people being critical of your Cheeto Jesus, dude. It doesn't mean they got anything, bad or good.

[80zephyr]

You might want to get used to people being critical of your Cheeto Jesus, dude. It doesn't mean they got anything, bad or good.

We could have elected Jesus Christ, and the wailing from the left would have been exactly the same.

Mark

[Billy Jingo]

We could have elected Jesus Christ ....

Republicans? Elect a socialist Jew who railed against greed, stood up for the persecuted and marginalized, challenged the self righteous, and told people to pay their damn taxes and shut the fuck up about it?

Unlikely.

[80zephyr]

Republicans? Elect a socialist Jew who railed against greed, stood up for the persecuted and marginalized, challenged the self righteous, and told people to pay their damn taxes and shut the fuck up about it?

Unlikely.

Its the left that hates the religious pal.

Mark

[Billy Jingo]

Its the left that hates the religious pal.

ROPMA

[Newman]

“I don’t know what we’ll do if it does go away,” Mills said. “I guess I thought that, you know, [Trump] would not do this. That they would not do this, would not take the insurance away. Knowing that it’s affecting so many people’s lives. I mean, what are you to do then if you cannot . . . purchase, cannot pay for the insurance?”

Oh, that's an easy question to answer. You die.

I take the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos' vessel of Fake News, "serious but not literally." So they lob "a poignant account," a floater, into the conversation, a fact-free attempt to whip up anxiety that the evil Nazi Trump wants to leave struggling Americans with no health insurance.

This fear-mongering is the progeny of decades old Democrat canards including "They want to take away your Social Security," "They want to put y'all back in chains" and "They don't even want to count you in the census." If they get to repeal Obamacare, you will die. Die! you hear me?!

Of course all this pales beside the promise that Trump will deny climate change and doom all of humanity to a miserable end. Or at least to a cold winter.

Put the WaPost on the recycling pile and consider the (should be) obvious: Unlike the present day Democrats, the Republicans don't have a death wish for themselves. They've had years to consider and fashion a frigging replacement for the garbled, Christmas Eve coal-in-America's-stocking mess that is ObamaCare. Repeal may be Trump's role, but replace falls to the Republican legislators. If they've got nothing, they'll richly deserve the permanent exile they'll invite.

The Democrats handily forget that even Hillary suggested ObamaCare needed work. Now they suggest there is no hope for improvement. None. The Republicans are at the helm. You die.

[Lady Marva]

LOLOLOL......... well the OP writer and that author found themselves one set of taxpayer tit-suckers. That's about all it is.

[Norm dePlume]

I take the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos' vessel of Fake News, "serious but not literally." So they lob "a poignant account," a floater, into the conversation, a fact-free attempt to whip up anxiety that the evil Nazi Trump wants to leave struggling Americans with no health insurance.

Does Debbie Mills not exist? Does she not have a husband awaiting a liver transplant? Did Trump not pledge to repeal Obamacare? It seems like those are all facts. Maybe you have an alternate definition for "fact-free".

[Newman]

Does Debbie Mills not exist? Does she not have a husband awaiting a liver transplant? Did Trump not pledge to repeal Obamacare? It seems like those are all facts. Maybe you have an alternate definition for "fact-free".

Piffle. One might just as honestly say that "You die!" is objectively true.

[Norm dePlume]

Piffle. One might just as honestly say that "You die!" is objectively true.

Can you list one "fact" from the article that is in error?

[Newman]

Can you list one "fact" from the article that is in error?

Perjury by material omission? Suits me.

Debbie Mills probably exists, though since the patron saint of Fake News Janet Cooke won the NYTimes' highest honor, the Pulitzer, I wouldn't bet too heavily on it.

Ms. Mills may be paranoid and ignorant, but the WaPost shouldn't be. If we leave the story with her limited understanding of it, we've done the reader a disservice. But then, the WaPost is on a mission.

[Adam]

LOL! Vox. This is immediately known as being complete and total bullshit. This never happened. They made it up.

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