What's perplexing is that so many otherwise normal-seeming people - some of them highly accomplished-- have committed themselves to defending a fantasy version of Trump that's wildly at odds with the most obvious facts about him and spinning weird theories to explain the opposition to him from among their former allies.
What's perplexing is that so many otherwise normal-seeming people - some of them highly accomplished-- have committed themselves to defending a fantasy version of Trump that's wildly at odds with the most obvious facts about him and spinning weird theories to explain the opposition to him from among their former allies.
A few days ago, I heard someone describe an analysis of the people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack: 93% white and 87% male (no surprise), and mostly with good jobs. Slightly more than half were from blue states. Overall, they were disproportionately from counties that had voted for Biden.
At this point, I don't recall the line between the data about J6ers and the results of a survey about disposition to approve of political violence. I think it was the latter where the researchers found a strong correlation with demographic trends away from a white majority.
The Trump cult is largely defined by a sense that "they are taking our country away from us," whether it's cast in ethnic terms, or as Marxists who use ethnic minorities to overwhelm "legacy Americans." Some intelligent and successful people who hold that belief embraced Trump as a dauntless warrior against the people they see as enemies of their America.
What's perplexing is that so many otherwise normal-seeming people - some of them highly accomplished-- have committed themselves to defending a fantasy version of Trump that's wildly at odds with the most obvious facts about him and spinning weird theories to explain the opposition to him from among their former allies.
A few days ago, I heard someone describe an analysis of the people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack: 93% white and 87% male (no surprise), and mostly with good jobs. Slightly more than half were from blue states. Overall, they were disproportionately from counties that had voted for Biden.
At this point, I don't recall the line between the data about J6ers and the results of a survey about disposition to approve of political violence. I think it was the latter where the researchers found a strong correlation with demographic trends away from a white majority.
The Trump cult is largely defined by a sense that "they are taking our country away from us," whether it's cast in ethnic terms, or as Marxists who use ethnic minorities to overwhelm "legacy Americans." Some intelligent and successful people who hold that belief embraced Trump as a dauntless warrior against the people they see as enemies of their America.