Trump Regrets
I came across a Twitter account called Trump_Regrets the other day and fell into it for a while. It’s just people who voted for Trump in 2016 posting about regretting it. No snark from whoever runs the account, just raw confessions. People saying things didn’t work out the way they’d hoped, jobs didn’t materialize, family got separated at the border, whatever the specific damage was to their own life.
The speed of the regret is what struck me. Not months later or years, but like three or four months in and they’re already on Twitter eating their vote. Each regret is so particular and sincere it’s almost sad—you can feel the specific moment someone realized their choice didn’t work the way they’d imagined. It becomes this accidental document of what happens when you bet on someone and lose.
I don’t really have a take on it. Watching people publicly admit they were wrong about something that mattered to them is honest in a way that most political discourse isn’t. That’s it. That’s the whole thing.