How can so many continue to support Trump when there are 270,000 dead?

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7. Never underestimate the power of racist anger

The anger Trump taps is deeply held racist anger. They are angry that "those people" are "taking" their jobs. Those who are doing fine economically are angry at the "freebies" "those people" are getting. They believe "they" are being afforded some sort of unfair advantage (despite all evidence to the contrary). If "they" aren't succeeding, it's become something is wrong with "them." It's the liberals and all their "give aways" that are keeping "them" from being productive (because you know, "they" won't work unless forced to by extreme deprivation).

Many may have very little awareness that it is deeply held anti-black racist beliefs that are behind the anger. They lump other non-White groups (and some impoverished whites) in with "them," but it is the anti-black stereotypes rooted in our history that drive their anger.

This racist anger blinds them and disconnects them from empathy for other human beings.