How difficult is it to be relatively young, financially stable if not wealthy, popular, and healthy and manage to stay far away from Donald Trump? What was the draw? Please someone educate me. Maybe I'm just dumb.
If you read my posts you will find at least some of the answer to your question. I have very personal conversations with Trump supporters so maybe I have insight that you might not have. Of course this is my opinion and we all have one of those
Some are super religious. They fear that liberals are taking God out of everything. I am trying to keep this simple but generally they believe that liberals are mean spirited athiest and trying to take away their faith. They make up about a third of the trump supporter group. There is some truth to their beliefs in terms of mean spirited liberals who use the f bomb in conversations a lot. Many in this group are working class to middle class Americans.
Some are super anti-government. They fear government intrustion into both their private and business lives. They hate paying taxes and believe that government waste too much. This group includes a broad range of economic class from poor to upper middle class and even the wealthiest Americans. I would say that at least half of all Trump supporters are in this group.
Some are super followers of any person with power that seems to support their chaotic drama filled lives. They are thugs, criminals, conspiracist, racist, white supremacist etc. This group is the most vulnerable to radicalization and they range from working class to middle class. Hard to say how many are in this group but based on what happened this past week there are too many of them.
All three groups have factions that are easily radicalized. All three groups are angry beyond what many in this forum probably understand. When/If Trump goes away there will be others like Ted Cruz that steps in to stoke the anger and hatred. There is money to be made in anger and hatred and that seems to be what motivates people like Cruz and Trump and others. The Republican Party recognized this a long time ago and lost their soul along the way. The Democratic Party has room to improve but when they have full power to wield who really knows whether that power will corrupt them as well. Money and Power just seems to corrupt humans. We the people need to be United in terms of electing good people to political office rather than party affiliation whether it be County, State or Federal offices. We need more choice in our elections. The election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is a good sign that our Democracy is not over yet...
Forbes says if corporate America hires trump liars everything from their company will be treated as a lie.
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...but seriously, Bob, isn't is just plain logical, if not written in law, that a pardon can only be given to someone convicted of a crime? This pardoning of someone suspected of a crime, some one thinking about a crime, someone who may be thinking about a crime next week, someone who may have done a crime in the last four years... that seems crazy.