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: Althouse

"Some meaningful number of voters who are clear-eyed about Trump and his manifest failures?even those who think he is plainly doing a bad job?will stick with the president..."

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"... because they believe Democrats are worse and the media aren?t to be trusted. And these aren?t voters who are glued to Fox News and reading Breitbart News. Often they don?t think about politics at all?and they certainly don?t follow the daily machinations of Washington. They?re typically not on Twitter. Instead they swim in a cultural soup of Trumpism, surrounded by friends, family, and social-media acquaintances who do live more exclusively in a right-wing-media ecosystem. Even if Biden pulls off a landslide victory, that ecosystem will remain. And so will the dislike of Democrats and distrust of the mainstream media. Getting rid of Trump won?t end the opposition?s problems."

From "Why People Who Hate Trump Stick With Him/Since 2018, I?ve conducted roughly 50 focus groups with Trump voters to understand the shifting dynamics within the Republican Party" by Sarah Longwell (in The Atlantic).

Yes, it will be interesting to see what these people do if Trump is cut off after one term. I'm thinking something like the Tea Party will reconfigure itself, but also that much less polite people ? having seen how aggressively Trump was torn apart every day of his entire term ? will treat Biden just as harshly.

Full post as published by Althouse on October 19, 2020 (boomark / email).