Understanding Trump voters means grokking the fact that whatever you feel about Trump, they felt about Obama. For eight whole years.
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This is not to say that either set of feelings is completely or necessarily justified.
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But to put yourself in their shoes means you imagine somehow surviving eight years of Trump, and then you you take "your" county back.
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What you see as a terrifying departure, they see as a return to normalcy.
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Two corollaries: First, the parallels between the worst sorts of propaganda on both sides should be cause for skepticism and embarrassment.
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Second we can predict that this mode of persuasion will not make much difference. Obama clearly survived it.
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Obama had far more support at the start than Trump. And Deep State or no, most of his appointees acceptable to permanent govt
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This is also true. But I cringe whenever NPR reminds me of right-wing talk radio from the recent past.
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Yeah, I'm cringing a lot about the fact-free allegations about Trump. Reality is bad enough.
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Part of what's exhausting about Trump coverage is that fact-free allegations have an alarming tendency to be true
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