Why did Republicans choose Trump in 2016? Why is he the front runner in the Republican primary again this year? Why Donald Trump?
For the last 30 years, voting totals between Democrats and Republicans in the Electoral College have been extremely close – Trump didn’t change this dynamic. Republican voters just vote for the Republican candidate and so do the Democrats. (It is worth noting that Republicans have only won the popular vote once in the last 30 years).
So perhaps this is why, despite Trump’s fraud in business, fraud in government, and blatant hate mongering, Republicans don’t seem to care – if Trump is a Republican.
But Trump is different than George HW Bush (the first Bush). And there is a big question that this brings up. Are modern Republican voters being fooled by Trump or are they just in love with the message of hate that he offers? We all know he offers hate. Mexican rapists. ‘I think Islam hates us’. Shithole countries. The Jews will not replace us. This is who Trump is, it is his brand.
I think the reason Trump won the Republican primary in 2016 was the hate. It was what Republican voters were looking for. Just like Vladimir Putin in Russia, Trump sells white nationalism. Trump and his allies spread a message of hate on talk radio, far-right television, and the darkest corners of the internet. It’s consistent, constant, and comprehensive. Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Muslims, Chinese, etc., etc., etc. Not only don’t Republicans see this as a problem, it is the primary feature of Trump as a candidate for President.
Prejudice and racism: it’s what Trump sells and what 70 million Americans want. It’s as simple as that.
Robert Gonzalez says
Why Republicans vote for Trump includes hate that many have in their psyche. To understand why they hate requires a listing of motivations that generate the hate.
When watching various interviews of diehard Republican and Trump voters, it is evident many find comfort in their conservative right-wing echo chambers of hate. We all know the right-wing media includes hatred of others in seeing the comfort the announcers have in demonizing and denigrating their opponents or as they see it as their enemies. “They hate the U.S.” misperception is because they don’t understand the criticism of the U.S. is based on knowledge of the tragedy that is American history. Most fair-minded people realize that history can be depressing. Most agree that understanding one’s history informs or should inform the morality of democratic politics today in the interest of the common good.
Another important factor in Republican voters is fear and anxiety of lose. It could be lose of the old patriotism of their childhood, which as adults we now know to be based on propaganda of the idealisms of American values rather than failures of American values. To relive or understand the historical failures of American values from even the very beginnings of the founding generation is to realize there exists a perpetuate stream of negative consequences in today’s governance and politics.
In closing, the terms of oligarchy, freedom, voting, patriotism, separation of church and state, Federalists versus Anti-Federalists, democracy versus a democratic republic are all terms not consistently defined in the politics of today. But in studying history one discovers that the U.S. Constitution turned a blind eye toward a real democracy. Instead they created a system that favors the propertied classes laying the groundwork for today’s uber oligarchs in a capitalists system. .
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