Here’s why we can’t understand Republican voters

[Matrosov]

13. You're giving them too much credit

As someone who lives mostly around the kind of conservatives that are the reason sane people view Republicans as hateful knuckle draggers, I'd say you're giving them too much credit.

Many of them are extremely aware of what is going on around the country and around the world, and they keep themselves informed using a variety of news sources. For example, people are announcing their candidacy just now, but these conservatives have been following and comparing Bush, Christie, Cruz, and Paul, as well as Clinton and Warren, for months and months now.

That is the very frightening thing. They access and process a great deal of information, yet the conclusion they draw from this is that the United States was once a Christian, conservative Utopia that's been under attack since the 1960s (or 1930s, depending on whom you ask) by atheists, communists, foreigners, gays, minorities, and socialists.

On the bright side, there's a huge division within the GOP, as all the potential and confirmed candidates are being dismissed as RINOs or unelectable by one group or another. The expectation is that the GOP will also focus too much on Clinton, and then Warren will jump in late and take the presidency.