After the "grab them by the pussy" thing, I'd think people are rather eyes-open about who they voted for.
So we must conclude that they support this behaviour. Kinda weird considering his audience is super conservative especially on sexual topics.
But I've given up trying to understand it. I'm just glad I don't live in the US.
Based on how intensely they despised the thought of voting dem, I got the feeling the republican candidate could literally have been Satan and they'd still vote rep.
I too gave up trying to understand.
Right after the 9/11 attacks, one of the TV channels here started sending Fox News during the night (previously they had no 24/7 programming).
This was the first chance I got to really watch US news for more than a few minutes at a time, and the experience was quite eye-opening.
From what I can gather, it's way worse these days.
Still, no, I just won't understand why anyone "in the land of the free" would vote for someone so blatantly against freedom.
I've tried to 'disarm' this in some of my ex-friends with actual facts to show that they've been duped into many of their sources of anger. But it's like they don't want to know. Like you say, they want to hold on to it.
I don't see them anymore because I can't deal with that negativity.
Democrats are really bad at appealing to their base. During the election, they attempted to flank Trump from the right on several conservative talking points like immigration and the Israel-Palestine conflict, while promising their base mostly "fundamentally nothing will change" vibes.
We're hoping this leads to the collapse of the democrat party into a new party (both parties currently represent billionaire elites), but I suppose the Democrat party can remain irrational longer than you can remain unrepresented.
Everyone who said "Democrats want to trans our kids" got their information from right wing information sources, and they did it willingly and purposely, and EXCLUDED OR IGNORED any source that tried to carry the actual left wing message.
What the hell counter-party to this system do you think could possibly rise out of the ashes? Any counter to the republicans has to contend with the same effect of a population that willingly and purposely opt in to a propaganda outlet?
Fox News lost viewership after they said the 2020 election wasn't stolen!
My brother, who agreed the 2020 election wasn't stolen, still spends his time in right wing information spheres and still votes for republicans. "For guns" he says, but no democrat has ever done anything to his guns and our supposedly liberal state enacted constitutional carry. He still wants to shoot all democrats.
Hell, my most right wing uncle who consistently posts hateful anti-women memes on facebook (to the point that the rest of my conservative family members who mostly agree with "women are lesser" in practice still thought he was problematic!) insisted that he wished Trump would get the fuck off twitter. You can bet he reads all of trump's tweets.
There is ample study that shows that people who vote republican will APPROVE of a progressive ideology right up until you tell them a democrat wants it.
I’m confused as ever, but republicans love Trump.
/s (just in case...)
I agree we should be honest about politician's warts, and I'll even go so far as to say that some things go too far, and should be impeachable.