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In reply to the discussion: John Dean article explains Trump voters. REALLY! [View all]BeekeeperInVermont
(76 posts)We have about 300 registered voters here and, after the election, I checked the vote outcome: about a third of our village voted for Trump. Regardless of their political affiliation, all these people are my neighbors. I work with them on village issues, help them when they need it, and accept help from them when I am in need. Is the woman who volunteers to look after our livestock when we visit my kids a Trump voter? The guy who passes our house every day and checks in if he sees something amiss? The young guy who knows my husband is waiting for a knee replacement and comes over every few days to see if there's something we need done? You can call them deplorables, "functionally insane", and claim that they should be confined, but I do not. I know just about everybody in this village and, except for the one guy with the Trump sticker on his farm truck, I would not be able to identify anybody here as a Trump voter based either on their behavior or their language; I'm certainly not going to treat all of my neighbors with suspicion just in case they are part of the 1/3 who voted Republican.