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or Hillary will do it. Or something.
Seriously, Trumpers don't care about Trump. It's not about him. They are raging against "the system" which has apparently taken them for granted and left them behind. They're not right for blaming us for their problems. But they're not wrong either. The average Trumper has a fairly shitty life with nothing left to lose. They long for an imaginary time that never existed but it feels like it would be great to go back to it.
It's so silly. I just met someone who is white and shared her stories of how her grandparents faced a lot of discrimination when they came to America with broken English with an accent decades ago. Anti-immigrant hate is nothing new.
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