Explain how Trump has so much support (1 Viewer)

[Bayouboy]

I would like some layman answers to the question "How does Trump have so much support, right now"? The final two word are important context.

I somewhat understand how he became a "force" prior to the 2016 election. There were many factors that allowed him to gain steam. Anti-establishment and not being a true politician was a big turn on to some voters on the right at the time. He talked a good game and somehow found a way to the Presidency despite acting "unpresidential". Trump's time in office had some victories for the Republicans and the economy was humming prior to COVID.....but the shirt show that happened on a daily basis with him firing executive staff (that didn't agree with him) and the overall chaos that was the White House certainly should've had an effect on his supporters. This was all BEFORE losing the 2020 election and what ensued. What happened after the 2020 election is well documented and, in my opinion, should have buried him as a candidate for office for eternity.

With ALL of what happened since the 2020 election, how can he still have half of the country (give or take) as supporters? Had all the election denying, countless gaffs, and the attempt to circumvent the Constitution had not occurred and had he regrouped and formed a strategy to compete in 2024, I could see a lot of his supporters continuing to follow him and his message. But I can't get how so many Americans can overlook what happened in front of their own eyes. I am truly bewildered.

I realize this is a mostly left leaning community, so maybe you folks do not have a clue either but would like to hear opinions. Especially, if you still support Trump through all of the mess.

 

[coldseat]

Here is what I don’t get, and I suppose I never will. My BS meter pegged from the very first time I ever heard Trump speak. He’s so very obviously a liar, how is it that he fools people? His ignorance was just as obvious. I will never get it.

Neither will I. I've never gotten his appeal. It's all just obvious bullshiting and lies. We have a word for somebody like that in Spanish, Pendejo!

It really says a lot about the people who are attracted to him.

He's very much a vile version of a televangelist, which I never got the appeal of either. But the same type of people that used to love televangelist now love Trump. Whatever that gene is that makes people attracted to something like that, I don't have it.

 

[Ted]

Maybe a significant block of (R) voters refused to vote for Vice President Harris because too many of her supporters insisted that a vote for any (R) candidate was directly supporting Nazis and fascism.

Maybe a significant block of (D) voters refused to vote for Vice President Harris because they lost faith in President Biden and thought her policies would be a continuation of his.

I think President Trump's election was a result of many factors and that Vice President Harris actually performed as well as she could have given the massive lead she had to overcome when she entered the race.

 

[Booker]

He's very much a vile version of a televangelist...the same type of people that used to love televangelist now love Trump.

That's actually dead on.

 

[Dragon]

A friend on another board I am a member of send me this. Probably rather fitting in this thread

The Clock Nears Midnight

When facts and fictions blur as one,
And lies eclipse the morning sun,
The fragile thread of truth may fray,
And guide mankind the darker way.

Dreams of freedom, torn by greed,
Equality, crushed by power's creed.
Men and women torn apart,
Division sears the human heart.

The social contract lies in shards,
While hearts grow cold and spirits hard.
Forget we share the same design,
A thread of DNA entwined.

The hues of skin, the shades of eyes,
Should never spark where hatred lies.
Dictators dream of empires vast,
On blood-soaked bones of futures passed.

Yet even in despair, a spark,
A chance to turn away the dark.
To rise above, to heal, to mend,
Before the clock strikes final end.