What is it like to be a Trump supporter?
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I suspect the left might significantly advance its interests by suspending priors while investigating that question
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This is why I've bet on Trump to win - everyone I am exposed to still has no effing clue who his supporters even are, let alone what they think
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This really is not true. It’s the most over-investigated social question I’ve ever seen asked. And the answers are good. I’m pretty confident I know who they are better than I know who Hillary supporters were. The gap that remains is in personal empathy. We kinda still don’t care
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*actively don't care as a matter of political ideology
This was the quiet part of the liberal platform for a while, but now it's become an out loud platform position. They're deplorables, after all.
Great for rank-and-file discipline, absolute trash for strategy.
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It’s a part of all platforms to actively not care about outgroup core. It’s just that it‘s more or less costly politically depending on the size, homogeneity, and ressentiment levels of the ignored group. Here it was/remains costly because all 3 variables are off the charts.
It's always been part of them to do so, but quietly and in a way which they could be shamed into changing behavior if it became obvious.
We appear to have lost that protection on both sides.
(Or maybe the grass is just greener in my memory.)
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I think it’s kinda healthy actually. Pretending to care when you don’t is a hard posture to maintain in a social media panopticon world. Nex-gen politics = mutually assured apathy.
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