#In addition to the people who are just conservative tribal brain lots of people voted Trump because of the absurdity of it

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This is all close to what my mom said it felt like to her when Reagan first ran for President to her. She was in a little bubble where only her douchiest family were out and proud about voting for him. And based on historical analysis a HUGE amount of not just her family but friends basically lied to each other about voting for him/didn’t vote but pretended to. Reagan was a dumb Hollywood dude who ran to the right as Hollywood passed him by in her mind. So now the crazy thing is you had to be oblivious/in a bubble to be white and not believe despite news coverage that Reagan was gonna win. With Trump it’s a bit different in that unlike Reagan the majority of voters said hell no to the obvious evil. But I keep coming back to my mom’s willing obliviousness because the media was so willing to give a shitty evil doer a megaphone like they always are, and this combined with their 5 decades of ‘BOFF sides!’ we must appear impartial even if this means we are actually acting partial to one side to falsely create an untrue dichotomy. I, unlike my mom in the first Reagan election, was really worried about him winning because of this and the fact that Scalia’s court back in the day paved the way for republicans to win the White House without a majority because of how they stopped the recount to hand bush the lesser the election.

What I’m getting at is that Trump is just a weird shitty sequel to some shit we’ve already been through. The majority of white Americans will vote to metaphorically shoot themselves in the dick if it’ll not metaphorically kill lots of trans, black, undocumented people, etc. The difference now is that most of us were forced to sit through this movie. And if you have a problem with how I framed the electing of Trump as by the majority of white people (it was), then try to get your apathetic white family members to vote democrat down the ballot. Get involved in local politics. Otherwise eat shit

gotta say its interesting growing up & through cultural osmosis seeing donald trump as the pinnacle of american greed, decadence, and corruption. not a person but an empty symbol of capital. and then i become an adult and he's running for president in the first 3 elections im legally allowed to vote in