What useful information is gleaned from interviews such as these?
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Plenty. You might be surprised.
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I guess I would find it surprising. We've seen so much attention given and so many press profiles of Trump supporters over the past two years that I feel like they're pretty well understood at this point. Doesn't seem like a lot of new depths left to mine.
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Missing teeth, elementary vocabulary, and a beer palette that hasn’t expanded beyond Bud Light.
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As much as I’d like to think so, it’s largely not true. You might appreciate Selena Zeto’s book the Great Revolt. It made me realize there are several different groups w/different interests. It’s important to get what drove them into Trump’s arms.
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Exactly. The underestimation of the people who actually support Trump and the ideologies he represents are what the polls slept on in 2016. Don’t make the same mistake. A lot of suits at those rallies.
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I know Manhattan millionaires that are on board with the agenda because they want lower taxes to keep more of their money. They want tighter borders (for poorly explained reasons). They want deregulation to open up new investment opportunities. There's a craven selfishness there
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Bingo! The libertarians hate paying taxes that might go to someone out of work or sick. But they are happy to use the roads taxes pay for!
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This makes a lot of social bonding sense...I've been seeing this referenced more and more
@JYSexton mentioned it on TrumpCast, but the rallies are like comic cons (or any kind of "con", DragonCon, TrekCon) where people are finding more like them than they saw before. -
The rallies convince attendees "Hey it's ok to say you hate [minority] outloud. I couldn't say that before...but now I'm surrounded by people who agree with me." That has double-amplifying effect. It strengthens initial belief and also makes it socially acceptable.
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I saw this before with Rush Rooms and chat rooms. The bigots in particular seemed eager to be among their own kind, so they could feel free to say racist stuff and have an appreciative, sniggering audience.
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Exactly, Klan rallies had a similar effect. And they were huge (and public) in the 1920s.
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What gets me is how deliriously happy they are, just in raptures over this ugly talk. *This* is what fulfills you? *This* is what brings you joy? I understand it justifies their beliefs and resentments but, damn.
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Hmm, how of the Obama rallies did you cover like this? He had larger crowds a bigger base. So what is the media’s excuse beside the make up of his base does the media have with this obsession unless it’s ratings or is it race? It’s time someone asked and for media to answer.
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My tweet wasn't judging. I just reported what this woman told me. I met her at a gathering of Trump supporters in Memphis, no reason to doubt her.
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Oh I’m not doubting her at all. I live in Trump Country, I’m curious about the obsession with Trump voters and the unprecedented coverage the media gives them every day.
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It's bound to be something I report on when I'm covering a Senate race in Trump country. Different voters will be the focus in different races.
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@HillaryClinton by 30 points, right (as did Nashville - the two cities together are well over half TN's GDP.) We wonder why you're calling an area with that byline "Trump country." - End of conversation
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I noticed this when MPR interviewed rally goers in Duluth. It seemed like most of them didn’t even live in Minnesota - die hard that travel from all over. The size of a crowd seems to be a poor gauge of support within a particular district
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Deadheads, literally
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Plus the arena only held 8k - so it’s not like a large percentage of 8th district voters are in attendance. Meanwhile the protests had several thousand, but that got less coverage even though I’d assume most protestors were local and didn’t travel
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