The final and last analysis of Trump-voters you will ever need to read:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/4/1777434/-The-Times-finally-gets-to-the-bottom-of-Trump-supporters-It-turns-out-they-re-garbage-human-beingsIn contrast, almost all of the people I know in my hometown in Nebraska proudly supported him. They glossed over his infidelities and stressed that he seemed to be a good father. They were impressed by his “respectful” sons and admired the success of his daughters.
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When you grow up in Nebraska, you are apparently expected to bleat about family values and the corruption of the elites, to be sure—but, socioeconomically speaking, it is apparently all a ruse meant for the children and whatever gullible reporters wander through town. In reality, when it comes to the churches and the voting booths, you can be as adulterous as you want, cheat your neighbor eagerly and gleefully, lie to everyone about everything and—if you are in the right tribe, and only if you are in the right tribe—it is expected.
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I believe I have pointed out multiple times that in my own experiences, for example, if any business owner mentions Jesus within the first 10 minutes of meeting you you can be absolutely, 100 percent assured they are out to scam you, good and hard, which is an interesting metric of what so-called Christianity has been reduced to in many subsets of the American psyche.
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Baffling as it may be to elites, Mr. Trump embodies a real if imperfect model of family values. People familiar with the purple family model tend to view his alienation from his children’s mother as normal and his closeness to his children as exceptional and admirable. I saw this among my acquaintances in Nebraska. Even those from red families were more likely than my acquaintances in New York to know someone who has had a child out of wedlock or is subject to a restraining order.
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Plainly put: These are the hallmarks of terrible human beings. People who you would not trust with your children. People you would go out of your way to avoid, if you did care about honesty or family values. These are the people who press their mistresses for abortions but who also are not vexed by abortion-providing doctors being murdered in their Kansas churches; they are confederate flag-wavers in Union states, miffed that new civil rights laws a half century ago slighted their own ne’er-do-well families in some never-quite-describable way; these are people who are so obsessed with the thought that someone better is looking down on them that they are willing to punch whatever kittens need punching in order to prove they're at least better at kitten-punching than the rest of you. The opioid epidemic is centered in Trump-supporting counties. The demand that brown-looking children be placed in detention camps for fear that a terrified 8-year-old might be a hardened gang leader is a phenomenon of Trump-Supporting counties. The insistence that Treason Might Be Good Now is peddled by Fox News celebrities to die-hard Trump supporters who will repeat and retweet it willing and eagerly; it was Trump supporters, Jesus-punchers every one, who gave Alabama crapsack Roy Moore their votes even after his exposure as a child molester—complete with Bible citations from “conservative” pastors arguing that Roy Moore trolling the malls for a child bride was, in fact, in fine Old Testament tradition.
They don't give a fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
They didn't vote for him because of economic anxiety.
They didn't vote for him because Jesus.
They didn't vote for him because they believed his lies.
They know who Trump is. They know that he's a horrible person, that he's the epicenter of a dysfunctional family of grifters, that he lies and fondles and cheats and steals.
And that's why they like him. Because all these awful, awful things make him real and relatable. He's one of them and they are one of him. Trump is certainly more relatable than that horrible Hillary Clinton with her education and her career and her happy little family.
They voted for him because they recognized that he's not one of the perfect elite.
They voted for him because they recognized that he's just a short-fingered vulgarian.
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One of the first things that Reagan did as POTUS, was to strike down the FCC fairness doctrine. The fairness doctrine kept the media honest because news outlets (mainly TV news at the time) had to offer "equal time" to every opponent to present their views. If the Republicans got 1/2 hour then the Democrats got the same. That's how it worked. Until suddenly it didn't, and it made hate radio possible, Fox News became possible and all the other nonsense that has happened since then.
Nixon did his best to twist the system but he failed because it was still stacked for the Constitution in the days before Reagan. When we rebuild this country after the GOP goes down the shithole, the first thing we need to do is reinstate the FCC fairness doctrine. There are so many things on the list, but that should be near the top. Frankly I was disappointed that Obama didn't do it while he was in office.
..."is to start a meth lab in his basement."
-- Mal
He shares THEIR "values".
They knew damn well who he was before they pushed that button, and they don't give a fuck. All they know is they prevented Hillary from becoming president, and that's all they care about. 
45 was able to awaken the fear and hate his supporters had toward the Left Wing. "If it is Left...It is bad"
Well 45 base take a look at what you did
You voted for 45 because you were scared of what a President Hillary Clinton would do. "She is the devil in disguise"
You voted for 45 because you hated what a President Hillary Clinton would mean. Another four years of Left Wing politics under a woman no less that you could not stand to listen to.
Guess what we have now. Compare candidate 45 during the campaign and all of his promises with what you see him actually doing. How does he measure up.
THIS IS MAKING MY STOMACH TURN
