I’ve been watching a couple debates involving Trump supporters. They all do some version of this. “I like his policies” “ok, can you name a policy of his you approve of” they can never come up with any. In almost any other scenario this would be funny. It’s hopeless.
It’s what they aren’t saying. Basically “I like that he hurts gays and brown people” doesn’t sound good, they know it doesn’t sound good, so they make up some other reason to support him that justifies the things they really want.
It’s exactly this. I read an editorial the other day (I’ll see if I can find it) from a canvasser that boiled down to Trump supporters are driven by hate and bigotry and you can’t fight that (at least not easily, or using tools politicians have fir campaigning). The facts don’t matter to people like this, only that someone in power validates and supports their hate for out-groups.
I’ve been watching a couple debates involving Trump supporters. They all do some version of this. “I like his policies” “ok, can you name a policy of his you approve of” they can never come up with any. In almost any other scenario this would be funny. It’s hopeless.
It’s what they aren’t saying. Basically “I like that he hurts gays and brown people” doesn’t sound good, they know it doesn’t sound good, so they make up some other reason to support him that justifies the things they really want.
It’s exactly this. I read an editorial the other day (I’ll see if I can find it) from a canvasser that boiled down to Trump supporters are driven by hate and bigotry and you can’t fight that (at least not easily, or using tools politicians have fir campaigning). The facts don’t matter to people like this, only that someone in power validates and supports their hate for out-groups.