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To be fair (and I'm not a Trump fan), there's more than one reason someone might support Trump. I know a fair number of people who supported Trump because he w
by api 5y ago
To be fair (and I'm not a Trump fan), there's more than one reason someone might support Trump.
I know a fair number of people who supported Trump because he was a departure from the Bush/Clinton oligopoly and promised no more "wars like Iraq." He also promised to push back on grossly unfair trade policies with China.
Had Trump not run in 2016 it's entirely likely that we would have had, starting in 1992: Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama (more or less Clinton), and then a race between (drum roll...) Bush and Clinton!
Though I gotta say... many of them didn't vote for Trump the second time because even if he did have a few good points his personality is too repellent and humiliating to tolerate.
- notRobot 5y agoVoting for trump and being a trump supporter is not the same thing though. If someone is publicly saying that they're a supporter, that means that they support trump's policies and practices. Which includes bigotry.
- api 5y agoI voted for Joe Biden, but do not support all his policies and positions. Racism is awful, but American racism has not killed anywhere from 500k to 1m people (depending on who is counting) recently. The Iraq war did that along with setting fire to over a trillion dollars. Sometimes I think Trump was worth it to make sure nobody named Bush or Clinton ever inhabits the White House again.