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Why is Donnie "Little Hands" Trump saying he will be arrested? $1.5M reasons. (Original Post) CapnSteve Mar 2023 OP
"Why is he running for president?" J_William_Ryan Mar 2023 #1
Why do people vote for him? That is the real mystery. Midnight Writer Mar 2023 #2
There's a long article at DailyKos that addresses this question. usonian Mar 2023 #4
A little folding money The Unmitigated Gall Mar 2023 #3
Lousy President and human but a first class grifter dutch777 Mar 2023 #5

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4. There's a long article at DailyKos that addresses this question.
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 02:59 PM
Mar 2023
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/25/2151940/-Understanding-white-voters-attraction-to-Trump-and-the-GOP-it-may-not-be-what-we-think

Let's just say, what motivated the GOP for years, but was often unspoken:

• Racism
• Fear of retribution from the minorities they terrorized, and which are becoming majorities. (loss of privilege is part of this)

The key modus operandi seems to be projection of weakness and fear onto others: typically Blacks and Jews et. al., and lumped into the "nickname du jour" .. be that lib, deep state, George Soros, or woke, and the transformation of a political party into a cult, driven by personality politics and the two points above.

Words have no meaning or connection to reality. They are just weapons used for effect. (Did you notice actors among their candidates? ) And the words often contradict themselves. The cult uses them to continually to maintain group identity: "We're not them". And they stand for nothing more.

Lots more at DK.


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