Archived version: https://archive.ph/XeqEM (But this source is really worth subscribing to if you’re in the Southland.)

Many factors explain why people across Western democracies vote for politicians like former President Trump, including economic concerns, rural resentment and racial animosity. Although Trump supporters have been characterized as “left behind,” “stigmatized” or even “marginalized,” these ascriptions are dangerously off base.

For one, they fuel the self-victimization narratives common among radical right movements, driving conspiracies and support for this ideology. Moreover, they neglect that historically powerful groups such as white people, men and Christians are overrepresented among Trump supporters. Even today, these groups remain privileged politically, economically and culturally. By objective measures, most Trump supporters are not left behind, stigmatized or marginalized.

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What the media still gets wrong about Trump supporters is that the vast majority of them are some combination of stupid, racist, or psychopathically greedy. Stop beating around the fucking bush.

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You’re still over here in your made up plane of existence just so you can whine that facts don’t line up with what you want reality to be. Blimey, haha.

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You’re dirtying Dio’s name posting shit like this.

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lol wat

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Those facts that they listed seem pretty accurate to me.

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You will never know enlightenment, because you cannot conceive of being wrong.

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All Trump supporters are either bigots or billionaires.

And that’s an inclusive or, by the way. We aren’t Republicans you know. 🙂

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Who won the 2020 election, again?

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They’re dixiecrats still screaming because we took their segregation away.

That’s all they’ve ever had, and it looks like it’s all they’ll ever be.

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Social psychological theories suggest two necessary conditions for people to feel included. First, they need to simply belong to the larger group — as white people, men and Christians racists in U.S. society do. Second, they need to feel that their unique racist backgrounds are respected and appreciated within the larger group. Hence, people may feel excluded from a group when they feel unseen or disrespected for their racist backgrounds even if they belong to the group.

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George Carlin explains the MAGA cult almost perfectly:

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”

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same old bullshit

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