It’s not stupidity. It’s shared identity. The vast majority of this stubborn knot of supporters have in common race, religion, education, culture, and a strong identification with the mythical American Dream of the 1950’s... 11/
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...– all of it, they believe, is what made America successful – fully ignoring significant historical truths, not the least of which is the enduring legacy of slavery that so many wish would disappear. 12/
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For Trump supporters, their experience of the world outside their bubble is what they know from television and film, which plays upon their fears and passions, building broadly held perceptions and expectations that can be manipulated for political (and commercial) gain. 13/
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Rampant urban crime is among these and thus the view that bringing the National Guard and Marines in to do police work is justified even though crime rates have been falling for decades. 14/
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Facts don’t matter. Belief does. Immigrants are not eating anyone’s pets. No one is aborted after birth. Drug prices are not coming down by 1500%. Kilmar Abrego Garcia is not a member of MS 13. 15/
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Yet a lot of perfectly intelligent people believe(d) – or at least did not speak out against – these things because they have unfathomable faith in Trump. Small wonder, those who oppose the Trump regime are continually frustrated when debating his supporters. 16/
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You cannot reason with people who have unshakable faith in something completely irrational. It’s like love, but upside down. Love is an additive factor in life, creating bonds that produce care, compassion and self-sacrifice. 17/
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Whatever this is, it feels existentially threatened by everything that is different, and reacts with the frantic brutality of something that believes it is fighting for its life. There is no reasoning, just one reason – survival and eliminating the enemy (which is everyone else). 18/
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For a brief but hopeful 249 years, America was bigger than that. Donald Trump and his supporters want a much smaller America, not one built on the lofty ideals of liberty and justice for all... 19/
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...but one where all of your neighbours look and think just as you do, where might is right, and where the other can be exploited but never accepted. They say there’s a sucker born every minute. I think that underestimates their birth rate. 20/
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