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Caz Hart's avatar

Indeed. Yet, inexplicably, so many of your fellow citizens see Trump as savior. It's mind boggling.

Millions of words have been written, by supposedly serious people, offering rationalizations for Trump's mysterious hold on swathes of the American electorate. Not a single word and not a single rationalization makes any sense.

This morning I read that his support remains strong because Americans believe their lives were better under Trump. During a pandemic?!πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ€¦β€β™€οΈ

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Noah Berlatsky's avatar

It's pretty straightforward. Many Americans are very attracted to racism and bigotry. Once Trump won the 2016 primary, gop partisanship kicked in and people saw him as their guy. that's pretty much it.

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