Hutch Starskey
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I believe most are decent but decent doesn’t necessarily mean they’re smart or otherwise competent in their understanding of the world or competent at parsing information fairly and objectively. It also doesn’t mean they’re stable or mature emotionally.I've always thought that most of these people are decent and want the best for America, but have been terribly manipulated over decades by voices they have chosen to trust (beginning with Limbaugh). Then, as you say, this con man comes along who is willing and shameless and damaged and needy enough to cosplay everything they want him to be, and they download all their manipulated hopes and dreams on to him. This helps them ignore his profound emotional/behavioral problems, and is even quasi-religious.
I think I understand that dynamic far more than I used to, but one thing I still can't get my head around is this joy they get from the pure cruelty. I believe that the voices they trust have filled them with so much grievance and mal-information that it has created a rage in them that the rest of us (across the political spectrum) just don't grasp. The word most often used, retribution, is key. This is some kind of revenge for some kind of pain they feel has been inflicted on them. Amplified x1,000 by those voices they trust.
I believe the die hard core have struggled with life and are lashing out at anything they perceive as hampering their success.
Some are just psychos of course.