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user-inactivated · 2958 days ago · link · · parent · post: Can some explain to me why would anyone vote for Trump?
As fun as it is to call the other side dumb, I don't think that's it. He appeals to angry working class white people. The Republicans have been misdirecting their anger at minorities for a long time to get their support, but they're more sophisticated now. They're not going to go to the left, they'll be expected to do too much self-flagellating, and they're not secure enough to shrug that off. Trump takes some traditional left-populist positions, opposition to trade deals being the big one, and he's not going to make them feel bad for America's history of racism and misogyny because he's still racist and misogynist. He's manipulating people just as transparently, he just has a more modern strategy for doing it.