• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Im reading this as: Nearly 1 in 5 people will reliably vote for Trump

    You’re discounting the number of RFK Jr voters and Sovereign Citizen “Voting is just a trick to get you to create joinder” folks in this mix. Also, the guaranteed number of chucklefuck respondents who reply “Yes, and that’s good actually”.

    Good: Trump only has 1/5 of people fooled and there is hope

    Plenty of Trump support has nothing to do with QAnon-tier witch hunts. I’ve got Trump neighbors who are entirely in it because they think he’ll be good for the Houston O&G economy. Its the “Climate Change is a hoax and only Trump will protect our jobs” folks plus the “Illegal Immigrants are going to rape my daughter and hot box my son with the dankest Chinese fentanyl” folks who are the backbone of the campaign.

    The “Taylor Swift is a 12-Dimensional Psychic Parasite Channeling the Spirit Ghost of Joseph Stalin” crowd are merely the most exotic and lurid supporters.

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        10 months ago

        YMMV. There’s definitely parts of the state that haven’t been driving insane by drive-time talk radio and Baptist ministers screaming for the blood of migrant day laborers. But we’re also talking about a place that churned out D. C. Stephenson, Bruce Alger, and Rick Perry. The ratfuckery runs deep and isn’t particularly new.

        I’ll just say that Texas is a land of contrasts.