Somebody Should Write A Book About Trump With His Deplorable Supporters As The Audience.....

[dawg day]

4. I bet if we did a Venn of "people who read books" and

"people who voted for Trump," there would be very little overlap.

I remember a map of "counties with passport holders" and "counties that voted for Trump," and there was almost no overlap.

People who travel, who are curious, who read books... most would never vote for Trump, I bet.

I actually know a man who is educated, from an immigrant family, a scientist even, speaks several foreign languages, travels extensively, who voted for Trump. He's one of those who loathes Trump, but voted for him "because of my 401K". (I doubt he actually has a 401K, because I know the very large company he works for has a standard defined-benefits pension, but you know, "401K" is sort of a way to pretend that regular workers need Trump to make the stock market jism.)

So I guess he's the exception to my "Trump voters don't read."
He's actually a pleasant fellow, but even now, he's thinking he'll re-vote for Trump, because "Dow Jones." I asked him how he as a scientist (in the medical research field even) could vote for a man who is wrecking our science and health system, and he hesitated, then said, "But Dow Jones!"

I'm concluding that the educated people who vote for Trump are maybe just selfish (and short-sighted in their selfishness).
So dumb and/or selfish= Trumpist.

Not a group I'd be proud to join!