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It seems like the very visible screwup which Trump and his supporters are very visibly addressing would make the actual literal neighboring communities of the affected lean more towards Trump, though.
I dunno, maybe that's because I live in Texas, and Dallasites and Houstonians see each other as Texans, where other states don't have that consciousness. But Trump's coalition(I mean Elon has endorsed Trump and does anyone actually believe there's a single democrat in the Cajun Navy?) visibly rescuing people in your backyard seems like it should sway some votes.
Except that the official story is that this is a lie by the vast right wing conspiracy, and the government is actually doing the rescuing. And people here are perfectly willing to steelman FEMAs actions so they can agree that's so.
What's weird to me is that people are asserting that FEMA is helping but providing exactly zero evidence - except maybe there is some action in Asheville.
Proving that FEMA isn't helping is hard. That's like proving a universal negative.
But proving that FEMA is helping should be easy. The evidence should be all over social media. And yet none of FEMA's defenders seems to be interested in doing that.
Ergo, FEMA probably isn't doing much of anything useful.
I pointed this out lower in the thread.
RW Person: Makes claim critical of government with some evidence (though often anecdotal)
Government official: That is untrue (doesn’t provide receipts).
Media: RW person debunked and spreading dangerous misinformation.
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