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I think it is actually 3 things, but you can't do much about two of them:

-1/3 economic/voters: we need better/different economics/policy

-1/3 cultists/far right christians/nationalists: trump is how we finally rise to power/right the nation

-1/3 lolz/nihilists: i hate everything; burn it all down

2 and 3 are the same group. Accelerationists and white Christian nationalists are just rebranded white nationalists, so there is nothing surprising there. Hard to say what the distribution of purely economic voters is given how illogical that is. I'm hesitant to believe the excuses people have given how extreme of the rest of the campaign was and its parallels to a particular historical figure, going to the point of nearly plagiarizing quotes from the man.

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