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In reply to the discussion: CNN reporting an ABC News Poll: Harris up by 6 Points [View all]J_William_Ryan
(2,071 posts)Theres a great deal of fear, ignorance, and stupidity in support of Trump; much of it willful ignorance.
Theres the unwarranted fear of immigrants and immigration, manifesting as white grievance politics and racist replacement theory.
The ridiculous, wrongheaded belief that America is in decline, where middle America has been hollowed out.
And theres the delusion that voting for Trump is an act of defiance, the outlaw myth, a blow against the political establishment.
Historians and political scientists refer to it as reactionaryism the fear of positive, beneficial change, diversity, and expressions of individual liberty; the rise of authoritarianism to compel conformity and silence dissent; the desire to return America to an idealized past that never actually existed.