People voted for Trump for all kinds of reasons. Some were racists. Some were concerned about gun control. Some were angry about China. Others were concerned about immigrants who were undocumented. Quite a few really hated Hillary Clinton.
Many Trump voters were not firmly committed Trumpists. Today I read an article that said every time we talk about “the Base,” we are lumping all of those people together and making them feel like they are, in effect, part of a tribal grouping. The author suggested that we stop talking about “the Base” and simply think of them as individual voters. He said we would be more likely to convert those voters that way.
I have mixed feelings about this, and I don’t know whether that is true or not.
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