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He owns the lady who replaced Pam Bondi so she will ok it without looking
One could hope... One... Could... Hope...
In before he claims to have had the virus.
Why did anyone vote for this guy?
Because he hates the same people they hate and he's an unrestrained flag-waving nationalist totally convinced of his own superiority - just like his base. Combine that with the Democrats continually making radical changes to gun laws a major part of the platform and the moderates move to the right. Like it or not, guns are a major part of the US culture, especially in rural areas. The GOP uses this every election year to get votes and the people who vote on this issue are so busy being scared of the Left they didn't notice that Trump did more to restrict individuals' gun rights than Obama did.
Generalizing voters is usually not a good strategy.
I would argue that there is also a significant amount of people who wouldn't vote for Clinton because they didn't want a political dynasty or just because they find her personality deeply unlikable (lord knows she actually does move and look like what we imagine an android would). Or some that believed she had way too much baggage in her political career (not just benghazi and e-mails. Someone with more insight into her career may expand on this). Then there is also the people who wanted Bernie Sanders to be the nominee and feel cheated (I would say rightfully enough), and either abstained or voted trump/green/$other. Or the people in middle America who feel that the previous status quo was entirely focused on the east and west coasts, leaving flyover country with little saying on country matters. Any one of those could be a statically significant part of the population. None of them require you to be white or poorly educated.
It's not as easy as just white, xenophobic mysoginistic ignorants going 'muh freedums', though that is not to say that these do not exist.
Right, the Left are all baby-murderers. I forgot.And abortion. Can't forget about that.
Most people vote "against the other guy" rather than "for" a platform. Trump was the most transparent of any candidate in my memory about being "Not my opponent". He ran on a platform of tribalism, and it worked. He never had any real platform of his own, really he promised to build useless icons of tribalism and exceptionalism - such as that stupid border wall.To save myself some typing, here's something from 2017, lightly massaged and reinforcing the people who also voted not for trump but against Clinton. It was written at the time as a reply to someone generalizing the trump voters as a racist assholes.
I guess I would say "Pro Ignorance for Trump" it's like how they don't want to have Covid19 test because that would only prove people have the virus... but they have the virus... NOT IF WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT!
^ she aint running this time. If you vote for this "there are many per capitas" idiot you are doing it because... ya dumb