#weirdogop

You can wear the MAGA cap, fly the MAGA flag, and adorn your lawn with MAGA signs, you're not fooling me. I know you are not voting for Trump. Identity politics explains some of it, but I think there is more to it. I've spent the last eight years plumbing the psychological depths of every MAGA supporter I know. Some are family, some are friends, some are neighbors. I've tried to understand why they would vote for someone who has proven himself to be the most vile human they have ever encountered, even by their own standards. My conclusion: none of them are voting for him. Here is who they are voting for:

5% of Trump’s MAGA base are dim-witted enough to believe Trump is a decent human and competent leader despite what is known about him - Danica Patrick being their poster child. They are voting for the person they wish Trump was regardless of consequences. 

5% are racists, misogynist, and cheats whose behavior has been mainstreamed by Trump. He has liberated them. They are voting for their liberation regardless of consequences.

5% feel Trump reinforces their identity as a callous tough-guy or bad ass.  They are voting for their self-image regardless of consequences.

1% are greedy psychopath billionaires who can use him in office to get richer.  They are voting for a financial windfall regardless of consequences. 

The other 84% are people who feel entitled and thrive on double standards and privilege. They despise any attempt to level the playing field because deep down, despite all their bluster, they are convinced they can't win on a level field. They are fearful and easily give in to their most base instincts like intolerance, spite, entitlement, victimization, vengeance. They lack the moral fortitude and maturity not to indulge themselves in these feelings. They also feel inadequate. These are the guys who sit in their 200K boat complaining about how bad they have it and whine about how put upon they are. There are a lot of these people in America at every economic level. As long as they can keep someone down they will never be at the bottom of the barrel. They talk as if they are convinced they are the only one who ever really worked for a buck in their life. They talk this way because in most cases they did not work that hard for that buck but want people to believe they did. They are hypersensitive to virtue signaling because that is their game. They want us to believe that all the shit they accumulate around them like the boat, the house, the watch, the car, are accurate symbols of their self-worth. By default, anyone with less flashy stuff to showcase is a less worthy human being who is after their stuff. When you worship at the alter of the holy dollar that is your measuring stick — stuff. More than anything else, these are the people who want to stick it to the snowflakes. The worse Trump is the more powerful the punch to the liberal elites.  They are voting for spite regardless of consequences. 

But no one is actually voting for the orange goblin.