Yes, Mike S, however, it seems relatively clear that not all who voted for (and would vote again for) TFG are all invested in hate. Certainly a significant portion of them are angry, violent & filled with hate, presumably from feelings of being shunted aside from the American Dream but he amassed a coalition of the very wealthy seeking to preserve and grow their respective fortunes, the religiously conservative seeking a more theocratic government and those who see advantage to the chaos he delivered (e.g.- foreign governments). He has been able to attract huge sums of money not only from those ignorant of his duplicity but from those who consider him "a useful idiot" starting with his first producers on his TV show The Apprentice. I understand they gravely lamented their decisions later on. It's a complex bunch of folks who are not monolithic in their hatred but are served by those who are filled with hatred.
Right. People for whom hate is their number one priority voted for Trump.
73 million of them.
Yes, Mike S, however, it seems relatively clear that not all who voted for (and would vote again for) TFG are all invested in hate. Certainly a significant portion of them are angry, violent & filled with hate, presumably from feelings of being shunted aside from the American Dream but he amassed a coalition of the very wealthy seeking to preserve and grow their respective fortunes, the religiously conservative seeking a more theocratic government and those who see advantage to the chaos he delivered (e.g.- foreign governments). He has been able to attract huge sums of money not only from those ignorant of his duplicity but from those who consider him "a useful idiot" starting with his first producers on his TV show The Apprentice. I understand they gravely lamented their decisions later on. It's a complex bunch of folks who are not monolithic in their hatred but are served by those who are filled with hatred.
That is an awful lot of people - like more than the entire population of the United Kingdom. Scary! For Just how scary, read Joyce Vance of 8 May: https://joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-ahead-d2e/comments