David Marcus: In Deep Blue Philly, the Libs believe that we regret having voted for Trump

Philadelphia – I met Greg, who is about my age, since we both had dinner early in Central CityAnd although our conversation was calm and friendly, as a progressive Democrat, he is very scared and even angry by President Donald Trump so that they seem wildly exaggerated.

“If I had to pull a republican weapon, that’s what Greg would have to do. “This is the largest crossroads in our country since the Civil War.”

He did not feel particularly threatening. Although he knew that I am a Republican who voted for Trump, I thought he was not referring to me.

But he sure how hell meant something.

Later in the day, in a drowsiness Philadelphia of the west of large houses that is until now on the left, the central city seems to be like TexasI talked to three students. He was curious to know if they had experienced tense relationships with friends or family about politics.

“Yes,” a young woman told me, “but not often, I think I’m a good judge of character.” The clear message was that anyone who votes for Trump is not someone with whom his friends want to have anything to do.

Our conversation was reduced after they told me that Trump’s Dei cuts were a big problem for them, to what I asked, what do you mean with Dei? Given that, they moved to another table. Once again, it was not unpleasant, but it was pointed out.

In the block, in a lovely local bookstore, John, the owner, had the kindness of finding me a book by Mary Beard that I had not read, and talk a little politics.

“It’s a big change at the same time,” Omar told me, echoing something that I hear from many voters.

One thing with which almost all the Democrats with whom I have spoken in the City of Fraternal Love seem to believe is that there are great strips of Trump voters inside that they should certainly regret having voted for Trump.

We saw this attitude in “Real time with Bill Maher“During the weekend, when the guest Batya Ungar-Sargon surprised him saying that he not only does not regret his vote for Trump, but is proud of it.

I faced a similar disbelief of Greg: this assumption, based on the thin to any detail, that Trump’s actions have been so drastic, that we must surely understand what deep mistake we made by voting for him, even if we cannot say it to save the face.

Flashback: Philadelphia is Alamo de Kamala Harris, and the nervous democrats here know

Or they believe.

Much of this is reduced to bubbles, and no, it is not just the progressives who live in them. In my small city of Virginia Occidental, it is perfectly normal to see Maga hats in Walmart, and few people seem to think that Trump’s presidency is a crisis. So what react people in Philadelphia and other blue enclaves so dramatically?

One thing I felt of all I talked was that this iteration of a Trump presidency seems completely unbridled. This time, there are no republicans like John McCain to show Trump a thumb down, there are no cabinet members who urged the restriction. This is Trump unleashed.

It is not even about results, because in two months the results of Trump’s policies are not yet inside. It is the actions itself.

The dismissal of federal workers, tariffs on our allies, a more friendly approach for Putin, deportations of illegal immigrants, even something as mundane as changing a certain body of water “The Gulf of America”, they feel as personal attacks for many Democrats. And there is nothing they can do to stop it.

At least in the short term, there seems to be nothing that can extinguish all flames to the progressive left.

But, in the middle of the overwhelming and deranged reaction to Trump among the Philadelphia Democrats, I met a Republican, a tourist, who offered a small warning sign for the Trump administration.

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“I am proud to be a republican and have voted for Trump,” he told me during a night cigarette outside our hotel, “but these rates have me nervous.” I pressed it on why and he said: “I am a seller. If everything we sell from Mexico shoots in price, we don’t know what to do.”

“Well,” I asked, “How long do you think it would be needed that this manufacturing moves to the United States?”

“Two, three years,” he said. “But I am not trying in two or three years, I am trying in two or three months.”

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One thing that everyone agrees is that Trump is moving fast. For some, that causes horror. For others, it is exciting. But the Democrats are very wrong if they think that Trump voters are expressing regret, even those who are a little nervous.

Donald Trump, after all, is doing exactly what he promised.

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