'Outraged' Trump voter says he feels 'completely swindled'
Source: Raw Story
November 9, 2025 5:46PM ET
A Pennsylvania Trump voter says he regrets his vote and that the president's conduct in office is a "complete betrayal" of his vote, reports The Daily Beast.
Morgen Morgus, a self-described Libertarian, writes in a letter to the editor of USA Today that "A year after the president election, I feel completely swindled. If the presidential election were held todaywith the same candidatesI would sit it out, he went on. There was a hope that they would be willing to listen to us, but unfortunately that is not happening.
Morgus, The Daily Beast notes, "joins a growing number of disillusioned voters who have publicly expressed regret backing MAGA at last years polls."
One of those voters is Betty Szretter, a "MAGA fan" who deeply regrets her vote as well because she relies on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to keep her daughter's diabetes in check. It all seems very selfish, she told NBC . Now hes busy out of the country and demolishing the White House."
Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/outraged-trump-voter-says-he-feels-completely-swindled/
JT45242
(3,740 posts)You voted for this, just thought being white should and would protect you.
Face meet leopard
Irish_Dem
(77,969 posts)Permanut
(7,754 posts)markie
(23,757 posts)"...If the presidential election were held todaywith the same candidatesI would sit it out,
not good enough buddy... you are still not living in reality
Walleye
(43,207 posts)Showing complete ignorance of the system and the candidates. But sure go ahead and cry, Maga.
sop
(16,882 posts)These folks may not like Trump, but they hate Democrats. Right wing propaganda doesn't give them any reasons to support "R," it only tells them to mindlessly oppose "D."
So true, and so sad. My elderly mother didn't vote for Trump, but made sure to let me know that she didn't vote for that "crazy" Harris. They're all brainwashed.
The entire Rethug party is based, not on good things they do, but on hatred and fear of "the other." They disgust me.
cstanleytech
(28,048 posts)RecoveringJournalist
(200 posts)To anyone in my circle who says this, I tell them that not voting is not good enough. You must actively resist what's happening by voting D. If you don't, then don't expect any assistance of any kind from me. You're on your own. Good luck!
Mike Nelson
(10,837 posts)... strange. The example given is a woman who has her SNAP altered. Don't these people realize they are voting for Republicans? They have a few very standard beliefs. One is that "Big Government" should not be "taking away our money" and putting it in social security programs. People should "Get a Job!" for money and use prayer for assistance, which could lead to a Christian church member or helpful relative providing food assistance. These people... they thought what?
BumRushDaShow
(163,346 posts)where the subject was "welfare" and they were interviewing people about it and featured one loon who I think was living, literally in a shack in Mississippi (or similar southern state), who was ranting and raving about "those people on welfare" ( "in the inner cities" ), and then the correspondent/interviewer/narrator filmed a mail carrier come and deliver the woman's "welfare check" and even confronted her about it, and she shrugged it off.
There are millions out there like that, the same type who like in Kentucky, insisted that they "didn't want no 'Obamacare'" but nobody better take away their 'kynect'" (which was the name of the ACA/Obamacare exchange in the state).
They are suffering from a severe mass psychosis that has helped to lead to the destruction of this country.
LBJ nailed it over 60 years ago regarding these people (as I post often) -
Bill D. Moyers
WHAT A REAL PRESIDENT WAS LIKE
November 12, 1988
WHILE Lyndon Baines Johnson was a man of time and place, he felt the bitter paradox of both. I was a young man on his staff in 1960 when he gave me a vivid account of that southern schizophrenia he understood and feared. We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs.
Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. "I'll tell you what's at the bottom of it," he said. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."
Some years later when Johnson was president, there was a press conference in the East Room. A reporter unexpectedly asked the president how he could explain his sudden passion for civil rights when he had never shown much enthusiasm for the cause. The question hung in the air. I could almost hear his silent cursing of a press secretary who had not anticipated this one.
But then he relaxed, and from an instinct no assistant could brief -- one seasoned in the double life from which he was delivered and hoped to deliver others -- he said in effect: Most of us don't have a second chance to correct the mistakes of our youth. I do and I am. That evening, sitting in the White House, discussing the question with friends and staff, he gestured broadly and said,
"Eisenhower used to tell me that this place was a prison. I never felt freer." For weeks in 1964, the president carried in his pocket the summary of a Census Bureau report showing that the lifetime earnings of an average black college graduate were lower than that of a white man with an eighth-grade education. And when The New York Times in November 1964 reported racial segregation to be increasing instead of disappearing, he took his felt-tip pen and scribbled across it "shame, shame, shame," and sent it to Everett Dirksen, the Republican leader in the Senate. I have a hard time explaining to our two sons and daughter -- now in their twenties -- that when they were little, America was still deeply segregated.
(snip)
Mike Nelson
(10,837 posts)... is one of the best reflections on politics I've ever read. That is in play... today, for sure.
travelingthrulife
(3,813 posts)if everyone becomes christians, then everyone would join a church and there would be loaves and fishes for everyone. It is as foolish as all their other thoughts.
mgardener
(2,227 posts)Having her for her mother.
Wait till she sees what Trump and Republicans will do to Medicaid.
What a stupid, selfish woman she is.
She didn't care what Trump would do to other kids.
I hope her daughter will be OK.
MarcoZandrini
(130 posts)We have illiterate voters.
Paladin
(32,023 posts)Anybody with half a functioning brain cell should have seen this coming. Thanks for nothing.
moose65
(3,425 posts)That sounds like the name of a Harry Potter character.
PatSeg
(51,491 posts)Very bizarre name.
COL Mustard
(7,801 posts)If only someone had tried to tell them what would happen. If only there had been another candidate to choose. If only they weren't so ignorant and blinded that they couldn't vote for a woman. Of color.
If only.
Wonder Why
(6,371 posts)DFW
(59,363 posts)Oh, really? And just what, if you don't you mind my asking, gave you such a hope? Did you pin your hopes on the tooth fairy last year, or the Great Pumpkin the year before that? Surely no one still believes what they hear on Fox Noise after all these years?
Justice matters.
(9,107 posts)And watched FOX News repeat it over and over, and they believed it was "listening to them" ...
OldBaldy1701E
(9,532 posts)xuplate
(146 posts)Blues Heron
(8,052 posts)Botany
(75,880 posts)
Bengus81
(9,584 posts)Hope the Koch brothers -1 don't find out.
travelingthrulife
(3,813 posts)I remember that from my earlier days.
They mostly voted for Trump.
JI7
(92,962 posts)Racist misogynist fucks
Orrex
(66,389 posts)And Morgen Morgus would almost certainly vote for Trump again tomorrow, given the chance.
travelingthrulife
(3,813 posts)Aristus
(71,304 posts)Sorry, dude, but stupid should hurt. No empathy for you. Charlie Kirk would have wanted it that way.
mwmisses4289
(2,782 posts)Oh, look! Here it is, in the dictionary! 📖
Ray Bruns
(5,788 posts)republianmushroom
(22,078 posts)colorado_ufo
(6,180 posts)"There's no cure for stupid."
Bayard
(27,794 posts)Along with those of his lavish parties and golfing.
AZ8theist
(6,979 posts)keroro gunsou
(2,299 posts)but you can use duct tape to muffle the noise once you put it over their mouths
samsingh
(18,211 posts)keep_left
(3,115 posts)That's a paraphrase from a NYT article back in 2019. IIRC, Rachel Maddow mentioned it prominently on her show a couple of times.
https://democraticunderground.com/100219776302#post82
https://democraticunderground.com/100220076901#post11
https://democraticunderground.com/100219566515#post2
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html
OAITW r.2.0
(30,999 posts)I'm Sick of their bullschtick.
Rebl2
(17,217 posts)what he said he would do, well except nobody predicted tearing down part of the White House to build a ballroom and new bunker. Anyway, FAFO as usual.
Xolodno
(7,241 posts)...for leopards.
Those poor over wieght creatures, will no on care about them?
Blumancru
(27 posts)A right wing nut job who doesnt want to appear stupid
..but is.
We saw through him years ago. If youre so smart, why didnt you?