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Not their beliefs exactly, but the animus that feeds those beliefs has been fed now and I bet will continue. They dont love trump, they love sticking it to those they have a grudge against, by playing with concepts of opposites. We've only been making more and more aggrieved people lately. Conservatives aren't even expressing themselves in real conceptual terms about their beleifs, they are talking in abstraction about their emotional state or immaturity.
Story time. I'll be quick. I did some time in my ancient youth as a playroom coordinator at a hospital. (yes, I have changed a bit I know..)
One kid who was naturally influential didnt like another kid. The less popular kid had a horse. The popular kid decided to state that horses are stupid, and useless, and eat perfectly good grass, so served no purpose anymore and should die. So he'd tell the less popular kid that all horses should die. And some other kids observed this effective manipulation so they agreed, all horses are useless and I guess that means death, what can you do against such logic?
And they'd tack it onto conversations with some fake(maybe?) innocence, all to push that one kids buttons. They probably universally liked horses, but expressing themselves in terms of opposition to express dislike and as an outlet for their other problems was the whole point. I think maybe I see that in republicans. And if you talked to the kid with the horse, he was really trying to convince everyone he could that horses were great. Sometimes I wonder if all of us who arent conservatives are talking about horses being great, and republicans are just enjoying the fact that they are making us talk about it at all, and that we bought into their framing.