Trump’s nomination is the first time American politics has left me truly afraid -by Ezra Klein

[malthaussen]

49. Understood, but that is just as difficult to know as the other...

,,, neither of us is the Shadow. There is, however, a certain smug self-satisfaction that can be derived from concluding that Mr Trump's followers are all fools being deceived. That doesn't make it less probable that that is the case, though.

But whenever an election is in process, most voters are presented with a candidate who has some points with which they agree, some with which they do not, and a large middle ground to which they are largely indifferent. They vote for this or that candidate, not because they believe every bon mot to come out of his mouth, but because they do believe that he will act on those things that are important to them. So the question becomes, for an elector, what are the things that are most important. And I think it may very well be the case that, what is most important to a Democratic voter may be of neglegible importance to a Trump supporter. Which may make them fools in one sense, but not in the sense that they are being deceived.

-- Mal