I'm a Silicon Valley liberal, and I traveled across the country to interview 100 Trump supporters
Silicon Valley startup incubator, Y Combinator. He did not vote for Donald Trump. But he wanted to learn about how the rest of America thinks and feels. So he spent months traveling the country, interviewing Trump supporters. He published his findings on his personal blog and has allowed Business Insider to publish them here as well.
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online.
This was a surprisingly interesting and helpful experience — I highly recommend it. With three exceptions, I found something to like about everyone I talked to (though I strongly disagreed with many of the things they said). Although it shouldn't have surprised me given the voting data, I was definitely surprised by the diversity of the people I spoke to — I did not expect to talk to so many Muslims, Mexicans, Black people, and women in the course of this project.
Almost everyone I asked was willing to talk to me, but almost none of them wanted me to use their names — even people from very red states were worried about getting "targeted by those people in Silicon Valley if they knew I voted for him." One person in Silicon Valley even asked me to sign a confidentiality agreement before she would talk to me, as she worried she'd lose her job if people at her company knew she was a strong Trump supporter.
I wanted to understand what Trump voters liked and didn't like about the president, what they were nervous about, what they thought about the left's response so far, and most importantly, what would convince them not to vote for him in the future.
Obviously, this is not a poll and not "data." But I think narratives are really important.
http://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-interview-trump-supporters-2017-2
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no retreat on my disdain and disgust with the people who voted for boy-potus puppet to make ameriKKKa white again. This is the main reason 99.5% voted for prezidents bannon and miller. I will give a sliver of acceptance to the .5% who had no clue as to who they were voting for or just voted for the clown as a protest vote to the D.C political beauracracy. But just a sliver because the ones who voted for racism, sexism, xenophobia, to have a racist anti-semite walking the hall of 1600 are laughing at your ignorance, LOUD, so may the pox that is overtaking ameriKKKa strike you first and make you fucking miserable.
Loss of health care coverage created by an administration that tried to look out for the uninsured, your fault. Loss of Social Security and Medicare, which I, a retired man of 69, can possible lose under this administration, your fault. The pain and misery caused to thousands of people deported already many who worked and 'slaved' at minimum wage jobs that not many americans/ameriKKKans would do, your fault. The upsurge in anti-jewish incidents, graveyards and jewish centers, your fault. The upsurge in the quiet, but not for long, summer is coming, uptick of white nationalist and racist groups gaining members and getting bold about their crossburnings and hate demonstrations against ALL PoC and others not white, male and female, KKKristian, your fault.
So all who want to understand a trump voter, try if you must. I don't need to understand them, I've been dealing with them in varying degrees since I was a child, so did my parents, their parents.......
TO HELL WITH all TRUMP VOTERS.
This now the 2nd American/AmeriKKKan Civil War.....blue and red this time.
is such a whiny, hyper-sensitive snowflake and why we've always got to give them special status and fucking bend over backwards to "understand" them... And every time some pundit from a coastal metropolis goes on a navel-gazing "anthropological study" through middle/southern America it only feeds their bass-ackwards egos...
Thinking we can win them over to our side, or that they *really* were only concerned with economics and jobs rather than ethnic cleansing and ideological purges is a fool's errand. Did we learn nothing from that fake-assed Tea Party?
What these idiots subjected the rest of us to by chosen this pussy grabbing probable rapist / grifter of low morals and no character.
A 70 year old spoiled brat.
As he rampages over our democracy and environment and rides over the bodies of the poor and needy.
He and they can FUCK themselves with a garden weasel.
..like a quest.
so tiresome
One of the few times that I agreed with William Safire was when he stated that we are a nation of nitwits.
I don't even consider Trump to be a real Republican, he's just an opportunist who used that party to acquire power. I don't understand how someone could vote for an individual who started his campaign by calling Mexicans killers and rapists. A person who said that AA live in poverty and have no education. A man who made fun of the disabled, who insulted a POW (McCain) by saying that he preferred his heroes to not have been captured. A person who said that he could grab women by their private parts because he was a "star". The list goes on......
How can someone who considers themselves to be a good "God fearing" person vote for such a hateful man?
