David Marcus: Liberal hippies from Asheville are heated to Trump after cold acceptance of bidet

Asheville, nc – To call this city of 95,000 progressive bastion in a purple state is an underestimation. This is a place that would choose Che Guever for mayor if it wasn’t the fact that he was a cisseric man.

So, as the city full of angry left -wing reacts when new ones are President Donald Trump not only appears In the region destroyed by Hurricane Helena, but brings with it millions of federal help? Well, it’s complicated.

Josh was a good example. At the age of 41 he works at a brewery with three locations. The one at the top of the hill in Asheville survived, the one near the river passed two meters of water and can be saved, and that closest to the river passed 20 feet of water and its future is uncertain.

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Josh is not a fan of Trump, but also realizes how much help this area is necessary, and offered a bit reluctant to appreciate A visit to bad oranges.

“We didn’t want to protest against him,” he told me. “In such times you have to look beyond politics.”

This could seem to Trump’s supporters as ungratefulness, but trust me when I say this is a shift. Not that Josh still does not believe that Trump is a fascist or an existential threat to the Republic, but the size of the need in Western North Carolina has a precedent.

A similar story was Corey, a self -proclaimed anarchist who moved from Maine to North Carolina just weeks before the Storm. Now his truck is destroyed. But as a welder, after a month of volunteer work, the renovation preoccupies and employs him.

“Because of him, I miss George W. Bush, and I fucking hated George W. Bush,” Corey told me when Trump was mentioned.

When I asked Corey why he despised Trump so much, I heard a familiar answer. – He’s arrogant, he’s a bully, I just don’t like it. Still, he said, “We need help.”

That was a general attitude around the city. The sharpest criticism I heard about Trump and his visit was that it could cause divisions or politicize a situation where people left the politics aside. But that criticism also acted halfway.

You are not wrong, the hippies in Asheville will not change its ethical grateful Dead Magi Hate T -shirts soon. But it also doesn’t turn up his purple hair because of Trump, and that’s new and welcome.

“I never thought it might be like this,” Josh told me. “I have a family that just doesn’t even talk about politics anymore. There was never that way.”

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I asked if he thought that could change. After all, I emphasized, Trump cannot run again, to which he jokingly said, “for now.” But he accepted my opinion and even admitted that Democrats give up some of their exaggerated positions and move towards the center.

It is too early to say that the temperature in the country goes down when it comes to politics. For almost a decade, hatred of Donald Trump has literally defined the characteristic of the personality of many people. That will not change for a coin either, but with time it could.

Trump is certainly not announced as a hero here in Asheville, since he was only 25 minutes away in rural and red Swannanoi on Friday, but there was not much evidence that he was considered a villain.

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Trump’s supporters were rightly overjoyed and enchanted by the president’s hyperactive first week, with his flood of executive commands and the almost irresistible transparency of the main speaker after four years of drowsy and silent Joe Biden.

But maybe it’s a bigger story, though quiet, this time Trump won’t face the winds of resistance, as he did in the past. Instead, many people seem to be Trump, even though they still hate him, willing to give him a chance.

Is this a turnaround for our country? Can we return at a time when we assessed people on the basis of their words and deeds, not on the basis of whom they voted for? I hope. Because it would be America who, honestly, is unstoppable.

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