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The Republican voters are the problem. They allowed the GOP to act as a pro-wealthy party, cutting the upper marginal tax rates that have eroded the middle class, repeal regulation that protects consumers, workers, wildlife, our environment, immigrants, etc, that then provided the wrong lesson to the Democratic party in the take over of the Clinton Democrats who are also pro-wealthy. That setup the discontent in the Tea Baggers and then MAGA to accept Trump's pro-wealthy populism because the GOP used divisive rhetoric, welfare queen, anti-DIE, anti-woke, etc, to get support of the low information, low intelligence voters to allow them to support their pro-wealthy agenda at their expense.

MAGA voters were more than willing to cut off their noses to spite their face because they are selfish people, voting transactionally (it's now a word).

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