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In reply to the discussion: John Dean article explains Trump voters. REALLY! [View all]JustAnotherGen
(32,164 posts)A few paragraphs to entice people to read the link:
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Will Trump supporters never change? Answer: Some will, if their personal experience shows them Trump has misled them or caused them grief, such as a loss of medical coverage. And if you anticipate a close election in 2020, these people are worth pursuing. But Trump will blame others, and his supporters will give him the benefit of the doubt more than most people will.
Isnt all this true of Obama/Clinton supporters too? Answer: Yes, to a certain extent, but the studies show its much more prevalent on the right. If you want a generalization about generalizations, these things are about 2-3x as true among right-wingers as among left-wingers. Research has shown that progressives are much less ethnocentric, much less prejudiced, much more likely to be guided by logic and evidence, much more likely to have consistent ideas, much less likely to conform, much less likely to trust someone just because he says he agrees with them, have much more self-insight, and so on.
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How he thinks we can prevail in 2018:
"with that information in mind, from someone who may understand Trump supporters better than Trump does, it is clear that to prevail in 2018 and 2020, Democrats must focus on getting sympathetic non-voters to the polls, and bring back into the fold the anti-Hillary folks, who suffered from Clinton exhaustionvoters who are clearly not right-wing authoritarians."