Because I talk to a lot of Trump voters. And they aren’t impressed with his ‘fame’, or the Apprentice or his money. They like that he acknowledges issues, like the offshoring of America’s manufacturing base, as a problem that needs addressing.
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Mmm hmmm. I work a mostly white, middle/upper middle class town in MA. It’s divided evenly red/blue. Every single local client who is a trump supporter regurgitates Fox News talking points or something similar. There is no nuance. It taps into their basest fears.
That was happening at my work, until I made them prove what they were upset about. I showed them all the contradicting information when they could not back it up anywhere.
I don’t dispute the Foxwashing of the MAGA mind. However, what my neighbors are upset about actually happened. Fox News didn’t make up 10”s of thousands of jobs vanishing overseas overnight and the ensuing mass unemployment, exodus and ruin of those communities.
Sorry. The only reason you would believe electing Trump, of all people, to address that, circles right back to the fact he is famous. A lot of Trump voters have an almost religious faith in the man, which, again, circles back to him being famous.
Nobody is going to say “I like him because he’s famous.” And not everybody will like him for that reason either. But his fame has certainly earned him credibility. That’s the foundation. Solid conservatives will always vote for those talking points. It’s the others that require the salesman from TV.
Sure, some of them are racist. But not all. Not even most. Voters who have an existential issue that needs fixing yesterday are going with a candidate that offers a solution vs a candidate that refuses to address the issue.
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