I know plenty of otherwise reasonable intelligent people who voted for trump and still support him
yeah, no. No reasonable person could ever vote for trump. I don't care what kind of "reasonable act" they may use as a facade, no amount of logic could have been employed that told a person trump would make a good president. Zero.
Further, no person with actual intelligence could have voted for trump. Yeah, I know people with graduate degrees who voted for trump. It is of no matter. Being able to regurgitate facts for an exam does not intelligence alone make. True intelligence requires critical thinking and the ability to dispute with oneself when evidence challenges one's long held beliefs. No one with an ounce of critical thinking would ever decide trump was a good choice for president.
We liberals and progressives can disagree with "true" conservatives. That's American, and just because we libs and progs may not agree with their beliefs and/or their methods we can't call them "unintelligent" or "unreasonable". However, we face no danger in concluding that the trump voter, regardless of education level was driven by emotion and not reason when pulling the lever for trump. And to that end the emotions experienced in deciding for that orange idiot could in no way be classified as a positive emotion.
There were choices the republicans had that could have been termed "intelligent" and "reasonable", in trump this can not be said. People who voted for trump made the "dumb" and illogical" choice.
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