What unites voters from left to right is the influence of money in politics and corruption.
So they voted for a billionaire, who has billionaires in preparing the government and at least 11 picks for strategic positions after who are billionaires themselves, have billionaire spouses or are within touching distance of that threshold.
Doesn't this construction indicate that your premise is false? That is, the influence of money in politics and corruption is not the underlying force that led to Trump's electoral and popular vote win?
Good question. I find many, if not most, polls to be constructed in bad faith, designed to get the answers they want, or at least to avoid answers they don't want. The other proportion of polls is poorly constructed, full of assumptions about those polled, or what answers are even possible.
Polls also reduce the nuance of situations vastly.
From older voters, what I’ve heard is: I thought this Elon Musk guy was just someone from the Internet happy to be on stage with Trump. I didn’t know he was the richest man in the World and I should have been told he would be leading parts of the government which decide austerity.
Some, but not all, of those voters also feared what Trump would do if he lost to a black woman prosecutor.
Being powerful means being a billionaire, and to Trump’s base the election was about power.
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[ 4.6 ms ] story [ 21.8 ms ] threadSo they voted for a billionaire, who has billionaires in preparing the government and at least 11 picks for strategic positions after who are billionaires themselves, have billionaire spouses or are within touching distance of that threshold.
Ignorance, emotion, identity politics, and good showmanship are more than enough to explain voter irrationality.
Polls also reduce the nuance of situations vastly.
I'm frustrated by polls, in short.
Some, but not all, of those voters also feared what Trump would do if he lost to a black woman prosecutor.
Being powerful means being a billionaire, and to Trump’s base the election was about power.