Trump True-Believer who doesn't fit in the expected demographic.

[no_hypocrisy]

I have a friend. We've known each other since First Grade. We grew up in the same community K to 12.

He lives in the same town. The town is republican. The town is in NJ and is regarded as an affluent community. Average municipal home taxes are $14,000.

He has a college degree in engineering. His daughter is enrolled in Liberty University in Lynchburg.

After a few decades, we reconnected via Facebook. We disagree politically but like and respect each other.

The Point: No matter what is revealed about Donald Trump, my friend defends the doofus. He believes that Trump is a true Christian and is defending the persecuted Evangelicals.

Yesterday, he called Comey a "liar". And the irony is that James Comey grew up in the next town over. Comey is one of us. It doesn't matter. He is plugged into Trump like Jesus-come-back-for-a-second-try.

Not in the Rust Belt. Not a coal miner. Not unemployed. Educated.

I don't get it.

[Voltaire2]

1. is evangelical.

evangelicals vote overwhelmingly republican regardless of any other demographic factors. Entirely expected.

[apcalc]

2. His daughter is at Liberty? That says it all.

[JI7]

3. he totally fits the demographic since he is evangelical and daughter goes to liberty

Evangelicals probably support him in higher percentage than rust belt or coal miner.

[Ace Rothstein]

6. Yeah, Trump won the Evangelical vote 80-16.

The only group more loyal is probably the Black vote for our side.

[Vinca]

4. I'm convinced the brainwashed fundies think Trump is the second coming.

You might ask your friend if a true Christian would dismantle programs for the poor while giving tax cuts to the rich. They seem to worship greedy, mean, self-centered Jesus.

[OnDoutside]

5. He'll probably say it's the Republicans are doing that, not Trump, even though Trump wants all the

cuts for his Tax gift to himself and billionaires.

[hatrack]

9. They don't care about all that Holy Social Justice Warrior stuff . . .

All they want is for Trump to help them get their Armagedd on so that Pro Wrestling Jesus will turn on the holy Hoover.

Credit card debt, house payments, hangnails - all that pesky reality goes away. Plus, they get to watch the rest of us suffer and die while hanging in St. Peter's VIP Lounge.

[world wide wally]

7. The religious right is strictly a wing of the GOP that needs to think God is on their side

in order to justify their selflsh greed.

[meow2u3]

15. Trouble is, God is not on the side of the religious right

No matter what they think, the religious right has sold their collective soul to the Devil for power and wealth. They worship the Almighty Dollar, not the Almighty.

[kentuck]

8. Democrats and liberals are not even human to them...

...if he is like some people that I know? You may as well not even be in the room when they start talking about Hillary and Obama and "liberals". They act as if the entire world believes the same as they do.

[marylandblue]

10. I have a friend like that

I haven't even talked to him about Trump, because I already know the answer. He is a right wing nutjob. But he is a non-religious college-educated Jewish immigrant goverment worker from New York City.

The odds of someone like that becoming a RWNJ must be less than 1%.

[haele]

12. Money is the God they worship.

Thanks to instant accessibility to "their wants" and the cozy consumer society cocoon that they've been sold as the goal of life, the atypical Republican has turned into self-isolating cynics who frantically avoid admitting​ to themselves that they are the product being sold, not the actual customer.
You see a Drumpf voter, you typically find someone who categorizes and ranks people by the amount of wealth they can show off, rather than by the people they are or whatever talents they were born with or worked to achieve. Another's worth is in what they own or potential to personally affect the Drumpfette. It's a small world view, but it is extremely profitable to corporate monopolists and bourgeois.

Haele

[GeorgeGist]

11. Sending his daughter to Liberty might be a clue ...

to his blindness.

[SweetieD]

13. Sounds like he fits the expected demographic to me.

Most Trump supporters I am familiar with through work, are educated middle to upper middle class older white people.

[DemocraticWing]

14. Multiple reports have proven that the average Trump voters are affluent white guys from the suburbs.

Your friend isn't an aberration, he's the norm.