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I actually kind of like it. Nobody ever shut up about how old biden was even though his admin did all the work. Trump is a much worse -- sorry, I mean "hands on" leader, so his age is even more relevant. When he acts like the petulant baby he is journalists should absolutely remind everyone that he's a geriatric.

That third of the country is what the Republicans rely on, they're their hardcore voting bloc. They will be for anything the Republicans do because "The Democrats are doing it but worse!" They believe that the reason Democrats don't get in trouble so often is they're better at hiding their horrendous acts instead of just not doing them. As well they're generational voters, have voted Republican since Lincoln and never will change.

A third of the country has been denied adequate education and services because the inequitable distribution of resources towards affluent urban versus poor rural areas.

Democrats have failed to significantly improve the material conditions in some of the poorest areas of the country, so a lot of rural voters feel betrayed and would rather go with the guy who is a outright greedy jerk, than the politician who talks out of the side of their mouth, while still obeying their corporate masters.

Apart from that, how can a third of the country still not grasp what is happening?

Denial and/or propaganda.

My grandma was a real meanie until 80 when she got a small undetected stroke in her sleep and flipped her character to a loving old granny all of a sudden. So the popcorn could go to another direction too, which would be really something.

Came here to say the same

I do like that they mention his advanced age in everything though

Every article be like “so and so is fuming! They had a melt down and slammed another person”.

In reality it be like, “I don’t like cauliflower.”

The exaggeration is getting out of control.

That’s bedrock cult. The Jesusiest lifetime my daddy was republicans.

Saying they disapprove will never happen. Privately, maybe on the john, say, they may momentarily think it before furtively begging Jebus for forgibness.

I came up with a 20-30% rule. Roughly each quarter of population is always divided into different political camps. It's not what I experimented and surveyed on but it's what I have always observed in terms of voting patterns since history, especially in Europe. The Nazis won only about a quarter of voting population but they had to form a coalition to form a government. Similarly, the various Spanish left wing parties also had to form a coalition with each other before the Spanish Civil War, until the losing right wingers staged a coup to take power sparking the civil war.

If we look at the voting pattern as well in the previous American presidential elections, only 60% of eligible voting population went to the polling booth. More than half of those who voted elected Trump while the other remaining elected Kamala. So, of those who voted, about 30-35% elected for either candidates. Those who did not vote comprise 40% and they did not do so for various reasons. It's safe to assume that of those 40%, half are either liberal/left or right/conservative who did not feel energised by either Kamala or Trump and would rather elect their own preferred candidate (Sanders, Jill Stein, Haley etc).

Those are just my guesstimate but it roughly correlates with voting patterns in various countries if ranked choice voting and proportional representation happens. Even though some countries with no ranked choise and proportional representation, about one quarter of people are of certain inclinations. So, it is unsurprising that 30% of Americans are fascists supporting Trump. Those adjacent or apologists of Trump may not be outright fascists, but are enablers or useful idiots.

And 30℅ were on the fence about putting an impeached rapist with a history of self enrichment and grifting into the highest office in the land. Apparently they were ok with it.

30% of the country are stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes where their main source of information is Fox News, talk radio, and online echo chambers full of people who do the same. Another 30% are also stuck in isolated suburban hellscapes but they’re not stuck in the same dis-information loop.

30% of any larger group are raving lunatics. This is a universal rule.

He hates women, black people and minorities in general.

He's loud, crass, obnoxious.

He's tacky.

He's petty.

Hurting brown people and "communists" is more important than anything else to that 1/3.

Propaganda works.

REPUBLICAN

VOTERS

LOVE

RAPING

CHILDREN

AND

GENOCIDE

Everyone who ever gaslit you that this wasn't the case was wrong.

Republicans are, at their very best, the parents who know their kids are being raped by an adult, and punish the kid for speaking up about it because it embarrasses them and they rather the child rape happen in the dark.

I have seen two different people recently with a trump 2028 yard sign, and wearing a trump 2028 shirt. People are evil morons.

It's the undrainable deep-state swamp.

Its like comparing bitter chocolate with literal shit. To the voters, theyre equivalent.