From what I’ve seen in interviews, when asked if they would still vote for him, almost all of them resoundingly say “yes!”.
They haven’t learned a damn thing. They will twist their thoughts and minds into any convoluted shape as long as they get to feel like they’re “winning” (when in actual fact they are very much losing).
MAGA-Christo-Fascism’s world view is an “Us vs Them” mentality that on principle blames everything wrong with anything on “them”. It’s based on “spiritual warfare” where real life interacts with another “spirit realm” and they influence each other. Everything bad that goes on (“why would god create suffering?” etc) is explained by the evil forces in this spirit world committing spiritual acts of war against us.
They don’t inquire about context because they’ve been conditioned to believe reality is zero sum with no unknowns worth knowing.
Almost every single Trump voter falls into this category, even if they are not actively religious.
Party ID continues to slide universally. The 77/23 GOP split on this issue is from an increasingly marginal group of die-hard partisans. I’m willing to bet that the folks who feel burned are the most likely to drop into the Independent voter bucket over time. But then this person isn’t in the “GOP voter who feels X”, so you stop seeing them in the “GOP voter who doesn’t like these policies” metrics anymore.
From what I’ve seen in interviews, when asked if they would still vote for him, almost all of them resoundingly say “yes!”.
They haven’t learned a damn thing. They will twist their thoughts and minds into any convoluted shape as long as they get to feel like they’re “winning” (when in actual fact they are very much losing).
MAGA-Christo-Fascism’s world view is an “Us vs Them” mentality that on principle blames everything wrong with anything on “them”. It’s based on “spiritual warfare” where real life interacts with another “spirit realm” and they influence each other. Everything bad that goes on (“why would god create suffering?” etc) is explained by the evil forces in this spirit world committing spiritual acts of war against us.
They don’t inquire about context because they’ve been conditioned to believe reality is zero sum with no unknowns worth knowing.
Almost every single Trump voter falls into this category, even if they are not actively religious.
It’s pure selection bias. No shit the person who identifies as a Republican will continue to vote Republican.
A more interesting trend is the rising number of unaligned voters
Party ID continues to slide universally. The 77/23 GOP split on this issue is from an increasingly marginal group of die-hard partisans. I’m willing to bet that the folks who feel burned are the most likely to drop into the Independent voter bucket over time. But then this person isn’t in the “GOP voter who feels X”, so you stop seeing them in the “GOP voter who doesn’t like these policies” metrics anymore.