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Where Does The Happiness Come From In Being A Trump Supporter?
I wouldn’t be asking that question if I could answer it. So I asked around.
Preface:
I just read President Obama’s interview in the Atlantic, where he says:
“I would not have expected someone who has complete disdain for ordinary people to be able to get attention and then the following from those very same people.”
And I’d written this story a couple of days ago, but I’ve been sitting with it, because I wasn’t quite sure where it fit.
Maybe it fits somewhere in there…
4 years ago, the conventional wisdom was that Trump won because he tapped into a deep vein of people in America who were deeply angry.
So since then, did he make life better for his supporters and help those people in the pursuit of happiness?
From where I stand, even with all the great things Trump says he does for them, Trump supporters never seem to get any less angry. Not at any point during his term. If anything, they’ve gotten more angry. And in many ways, the President needs them to stay angry.
So when people call Trump followers — including the Republican Party — a cult, yeah, I guess they’re right.
