A mistake often made in a passionate argument is often that someone assumes that everybody who wears the same hat you do does so for the same reasons you do. In this case, the number of people who supported the R ticket that hold the deep, complex information set that you do is likely very small. Their reasons not nearly so sophisticated.
Lost in all of this is the very real role the Obama-Trump voter played in the 2016 result. Affected, most particularly, by millions of Democrat’s not understanding what their concerns and hopes were in facilitating the nomination of a spectacularly out of tune to those hopes and concerns Presidential candidate. (That vote being the 2nd hardest thing to do with a pen or pencil in my hand in my lifetime). I lost the trust of a good number of D/self-described “liberal” friends and acquaintances when after the vote came in I said anything to the effect of “Well, at least.......”. I still tell them if they are interested in listening that I’m not convinced that anything would have turned out better, that we’d be in a better place had it gone the other way. Although some really bad stuff might not have happened (Stephen Miller comes to mind) but some could easily be as bad or worse. And the Democrats would have gotten slaughtered in the 2 subsequent elections. Maybe those 77,000 votes were providential.
I know you’ve got a pre-qualified, invisible protective shield to anything that some suspected... whatever.... references, but please give this a shot:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/liberal-hyperbole-trump-coup.html
