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After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple:
They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them.
There has been lots of handwringing about what policies or platforms could coax these voters into switching blue, but the carrot doesn't matter. It's the stick. Nine times out of ten they agree with mainstream Democratic policies, but they want them from someone who looks and acts like Trump.
- So, they want socialism, but, like, national.
- I get the joke, but I've actually come to think of Trump as being closer to Argentina's Juan Perón. Someone who can bundle a whole bunch of incoherent, populist ideas together in a way that is chaotic, but also gratifying for folks who feel like the system has lost touch with what they care about.
- One of the sharpest bits of commentary anyone’s ever told me is that the US isn’t an unusually right wing European country, it’s an unusually wealthy Latin American one.
They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them.
There has been lots of handwringing about what policies or platforms could coax these voters into switching blue, but the carrot doesn't matter. It's the stick. Nine times out of ten they agree with mainstream Democratic policies, but they want them from someone who looks and acts like Trump.
- So, they want socialism, but, like, national.
- I get the joke, but I've actually come to think of Trump as being closer to Argentina's Juan Perón. Someone who can bundle a whole bunch of incoherent, populist ideas together in a way that is chaotic, but also gratifying for folks who feel like the system has lost touch with what they care about.
- One of the sharpest bits of commentary anyone’s ever told me is that the US isn’t an unusually right wing European country, it’s an unusually wealthy Latin American one.