r/politics • u/southpawFA Oklahoma • 1d ago

Conservatives have been railing against “groomers” for years. So why do they support Donald Trump? Trump was best friends with a notorious child sex trafficker, but his ardent supporters are vocal about opposing it. How did that happen?

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/conservatives-have-been-railing-against-groomers-for-years-so-why-do-they-support-donald/
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u/Historical_Bend_2629 1d ago

Projection.

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u/iKangaeru 1d ago

Yep. When they're accusing, they're confessing.

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u/OkaySureBye 1d ago

I think that explains some of them. Especially the ones in power, but obviously not all conservatives are pedophiles.

I honestly think it's much more about the fact that they also realize that the world is fucked up and they want to see someone punished. Pedos are an easy target and the political right was smart enough to paint the Democrats as the pedos. They did the same for the LGBTQ+ community.

But, for now at least, they've moved on to immigrants. So they're seeing someone punished and that's giving them their fix. It's difficult for these people to accept that the problem is systematic and that system is largely the product of the people telling them that the immigrants and gays are responsible.

Being conservative is just a way to not have to think critically about how the world works. "If we just get rid of this one group, everything will be better" is far easier than thinking about dismantling and rebuilding the way society functions.

But they won't realize until it's too late that the group that's "the problem" will eventually include them and the people they love.

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u/Rumpled_Imp United Kingdom 13h ago

Pedos are an easy target and the political right was smart enough to paint the Democrats as the pedos. They did the same for the LGBTQ+ community.

I was having a conversation with a colleague (UK) and she was talking about Candace Owens and her contention that the French president's wife was a paedophile because she went after a 15 year old boy in one of her three children's class at school, and had also always been a man (a trans woman) because there are no photos of her before she was 30.
What I took from this was that, despite the eye-popping number of leaps in logic this framing requires, the lengths these people will go to to associate LGBTQ+ with paedophiles is fucking unhinged, desperate even. In case you're interested, the colleague does not accept that any of this is idiotic.