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Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?
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That doesn't help you understand his supporters though. You have to wade in the shit they call news. You have to hear what they say to begin to understand them.
I hear what they say I still don't understand them.
I grew up in the south, I understand them perfectly.
Imagine growing up your whole life being told you need to be angry because you're the greatest but everybody else takes what you deserve from you.
It used to be that pesky northerners took away your slaves, but that evolved to taking away your rights to enforce your own laws (Jim crow), then your rights to be Christian the way you want (school prayer, abortion, insisting on a Christian country), then forcing you to tolerate gays who are abominations against God and nature, then letting foreigners come in and steal the one thing you have 9f value, your citizenship.
All while being rich coastal liberals who never did any real work because they set the rules of the game that your parents never understood, but education can't be that important, you're all the chosen of God and your pastor explained that there's no knowledge that you need outside of the truth of the Bible.
So you have a choice between a loud, uppity foreign woman telling you why you're not good enough in her fancy words, or somebody who talks sense and tells it like it is, and you know he's right because it's what you've always known in your heart.
They were raised on 3 things: college football, NASCAR and pro-wrestling, and they never got involved with politics till now, so they use pro-wrestling as their model, and he is clearly the face right now.
That’s a great analogy.
I can buy that. I live in the North West and this description doesn't fit MAGA here.
He's white, Christian, and male. That's a about where the similarity ends.
He's a professional making good money, drives a nice car has a nice family, never watched NASCAR or wrestling, doesn't care about sports, went to college, comes from a line of immigrants who "made it" in America by the sweat of their own brow which is a source of pride, without even a tangential connection to slavery, and weirdest, hated Trump. He thought Trump was disgusting in 2015. Now won't hear a bad word about him.
I highly recommend the Alt Right playbook:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ&si=__UZVQ3cmJRDigR3