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Trump is the political equivalent of those spam/scam emails with intentional misspellings designed to filter out folks who won't ultimately fall for the scam (gizmodo.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Truthfully? I'd bet an uncomfortable percentage of all people fall for common email scams all the time. But trumps base doesn't represent 50% of the country. More accurately, 33% of Americans fall for it, 33% push against it, and 33% don't think it's a big enough problem to mail in a form letter once every 4 years.