The Four Kinds of Trump Supporters
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Like many, I’ve spent a fair amount of time wondering why sizable numbers of Americans support the Presidency of a man as transparently unsuited to high office as Donald Trump.
I’ve tried really listening to Trump supporters on this. With VERY few exceptions, just about every one I’ve spoken with fits one of four categories:
1) Affluent cynics who care about nothing except getting their taxes cut. These are often well-educated people who’s entire politics are “I vote my wallet, first, second, and last.”
2) White identity types. “Why is it racist to ask for an NAAWP? Why is it racist for me to want a White History month? Why is it racist for me to love my White ancestry? Why do people hate me when i point out that Adolf Hitler made some valid arguments? Mean liberals are always calling me racist! Waaaaaah!!”
3) Religious fundamentalists : These are the people who claim to represent traditional godly morality, except when Trump pays porn stars for sex.
4) Stupid people : I mean really stupid people. Not necessarily low IQ, per se - although there’s probably a correlation with that - but willfully stupid people who believe that Bill Gates invented Coronavirus in a lab, protests against police brutality are a “Masonic psyop” and that Trump is our only hope against the Bankers/Illuminati/Secret Fluoridation Conspiracy.
That mostly covers it, as far as I can tell. If anyone here can identify other broad categories of Trump supporters, I’m interested in their thoughts.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213562523
11. Not sure how this type may fit into any of the 4 categories.
There are a number of MAGAt's that support Trump entirely because of his hatred of all things "liberal". These are people who carry a massive baggage of hating the things that support a vibrant society and label things as "political correctness". Anything that suggests to them how to behave in a community is abhorrent to them and they want some sort of revenge.
Many would fit into #2 but not exclusively.
15. Yeah, the hate-addicted might be a fifth category.
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You know, I’d agree with you that the hate-addicted might be a fifth category.
These are the radio talk-show junkies who barely care about governance or policy at all, but absolutely seethe with hate at liberals. There’s an overlap with category #2, especially, but it’s not 100 percent.
19. I've definitely met high IQ people in category #4
I’ve definitely met some people with a high IQ who got into category #4. They just don’t have a great sense of how deeply confirmation biases and the need for pattern recognition can run. In many cases it’s almost a self-willed stupidity ; the same people who tell me government can’t work because big organizations always fail due to inefficiency will sometimes spin elaborate yarns about world-spanning, multi-generational conspiracies which combine elaborate ideological goals and vast sway with ruthless effectiveness and absolute, perfectly enforced secrecy.
Last edited Mon Jun 8, 2020, 09:38 AM - Edit history (1)
Like many, I’ve spent a fair amount of time wondering why sizable numbers of Americans support the Presidency of a man as transparently unsuited to high office as Donald Trump.
I’ve tried really listening to Trump supporters on this. With VERY few exceptions, just about every one I’ve spoken with fits one of four categories:
1) Affluent cynics who care about nothing except getting their taxes cut. These are often well-educated people who’s entire politics are “I vote my wallet, first, second, and last.”
2) White identity types. “Why is it racist to ask for an NAAWP? Why is it racist for me to want a White History month? Why is it racist for me to love my White ancestry? Why do people hate me when i point out that Adolf Hitler made some valid arguments? Mean liberals are always calling me racist! Waaaaaah!!”
3) Religious fundamentalists : These are the people who claim to represent traditional godly morality, except when Trump pays porn stars for sex.
4) Stupid people : I mean really stupid people. Not necessarily low IQ, per se - although there’s probably a correlation with that - but willfully stupid people who believe that Bill Gates invented Coronavirus in a lab, protests against police brutality are a “Masonic psyop” and that Trump is our only hope against the Bankers/Illuminati/Secret Fluoridation Conspiracy.
That mostly covers it, as far as I can tell. If anyone here can identify other broad categories of Trump supporters, I’m interested in their thoughts.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213562523
11. Not sure how this type may fit into any of the 4 categories.
There are a number of MAGAt's that support Trump entirely because of his hatred of all things "liberal". These are people who carry a massive baggage of hating the things that support a vibrant society and label things as "political correctness". Anything that suggests to them how to behave in a community is abhorrent to them and they want some sort of revenge.
Many would fit into #2 but not exclusively.
15. Yeah, the hate-addicted might be a fifth category.
Last edited Mon Jun 8, 2020, 10:26 AM - Edit history (1)
You know, I’d agree with you that the hate-addicted might be a fifth category.
These are the radio talk-show junkies who barely care about governance or policy at all, but absolutely seethe with hate at liberals. There’s an overlap with category #2, especially, but it’s not 100 percent.
19. I've definitely met high IQ people in category #4
I’ve definitely met some people with a high IQ who got into category #4. They just don’t have a great sense of how deeply confirmation biases and the need for pattern recognition can run. In many cases it’s almost a self-willed stupidity ; the same people who tell me government can’t work because big organizations always fail due to inefficiency will sometimes spin elaborate yarns about world-spanning, multi-generational conspiracies which combine elaborate ideological goals and vast sway with ruthless effectiveness and absolute, perfectly enforced secrecy.
