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One of the most interesting things about Trump supporters is he did nothing to earn the level of devotion people have for him.
Even with the emails and his own actions withholding SNAP his cultists are still hanging on. The end result of his run will be enriching himself and billionaires.
The one bit of credit that I can give him is that he's good at making people feel seen. At his rallies, he'll ramble on about how awful things are, and then he'll say something like "I see you, I see that you're hurting. I'm going to fix it". It's hardly the peak of rhetoric, but it's super effective when so many people are struggling but the system is constantly gaslighting them because "the economy is doing great 👍".
I find it sad, because the people most likely to latch onto this are people who are most being fucked over by the system. Often hatred starts as a seed of fear for one's circumstances. I wish they would see that Trump is just exploiting them all the more.
because I think everyone on both sides know that he's just a figurehead that represents permission to act in a certain way, without embodying
It's like an evangelist. They say it, but they don't do anything real about it. Reminds me of John Edwards.