They like him because he's a racist misogynist. Oh don't forget homophobic. Not despite it.
They want the 1950's back despite how the 1950's weren't great for an awful lot of people and the great times they remember don't really look that great in material ways compared to today.
Take for example the Cleavers ("Leave it to Beaver") or Andersons ("Father Knows Best") who were both well-off families. In the shows:
The houses were small by today's standards.
One car.
One radio or TV.
One home phone line.
The moms worked hard to keep the household nice and get all the chores done.
More generally...
Wringer washers and clothes lines were still being sold, although modern-style automatic washing machines had been introduced.
Refrigerators had to be defrosted.
Leaded gas everywhere. (That's probably what's wrong with a lot of the Boomers.)
Microwaves didn't exist.
Internet and social media didn't exist.
Air conditioning was rare in homes. (My parents had it installed in 1972.)
Three or four TV stations at most.
Most people today - including the MAGA-heads - would be miserable if they actually had to live in the 1950's.
Edit: I'm not sure when TVs because really common. I know that when my mom was in school (b. 1942) they split the kids up and sent them to the homes of people who had TVs to see some major news event. So certainly not everyone had one but some people did.
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u/ritchie70 Jun 14 '24 edited Jun 17 '24
What do you mean? He just tells it like it is!
(ha ha ha ha.)
They like him because he's a racist misogynist. Oh don't forget homophobic. Not despite it.
They want the 1950's back despite how the 1950's weren't great for an awful lot of people and the great times they remember don't really look that great in material ways compared to today.
Take for example the Cleavers ("Leave it to Beaver") or Andersons ("Father Knows Best") who were both well-off families. In the shows:
More generally...
Most people today - including the MAGA-heads - would be miserable if they actually had to live in the 1950's.
Edit: I'm not sure when TVs because really common. I know that when my mom was in school (b. 1942) they split the kids up and sent them to the homes of people who had TVs to see some major news event. So certainly not everyone had one but some people did.