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Can't get past the paywall and I'd like to read this:

Mike Young❤ @micyoung75.16h

The Johns Hopkins Agora Institute embedded researchers in super-red counties in Wyoming, Michigan, and South Carolina for an ethnographic study of Trump voters. Fourteen of 21 participants had an immediate negative reaction when asked about democracy. The reasons they gave were consistent.
These voters do not believe they are a silent majority. They believe they are a minority under threat from a wicked cultural majority. They do not want majority rule. They want minority rule - specifically, the ability for their group to exercise power over a majority they find morally repugnant.
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Patricia, 50s, South Carolina: "Democracy is two wolves and one sheep deciding who's for dinner." Kyle, mid-20s, Wyoming, a delivery driver: "Every single small town would be outvoted by every single city. We wouldn't be able to feed people cows. We'd all be eating seaweed." Clint, 70s, Michigan: "If we do have a democracy, it'll be a problem."
JVL is scrupulous about the limits of a 21-person sample. He notes Sarah Longwell's counter-thesis - that millions of Trump voters are genuinely motivated by affordability and economic hardship - is also correct. But the study documents something specific: a coherent worldview in which democratic processes are only legitimate when they produce outcomes the participant approves. That is not a
misunderstanding of democracy. It is a rejection of it.

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/what-cletus-thinks-ab...

But the study documents something specific: a coherent worldview in which democratic processes are only legitimate when they produce outcomes the participant approves. That is not a misunderstanding of democracy. It is a rejection of it.

There was a narrative going around GOP circles some years ago: "the United States is a republic, not a democracy". as if a republican form of government, and democratic processes, are mutually exclusive. Some of us have seen the maps circulated by the right, showing the vast majority of the land area of the US, as voting GOP, and only a few, small, areas, voting democratic, thus proposing that the country should always have GOP rule. Of course, that map ignores the fact that the small blue areas, like LA or NYC, have far more population that the vast GOP expanse of Wyoming, for instance.

So, yes, there is a faction that is against democratic processes.

Steve

Of course, that map ignores the fact that the small blue areas, like LA or NYC, have far more population that the vast GOP expanse of Wyoming, for instance.

I remember the first time I saw that map. One of my congregants, a right winger, showed it to me more than 20 years ago- it was some sort of fold-out in “The Weekly Standard”.

My response: “Lee, correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s my understanding that neither cows nor acreage can vote”.

These voters do not believe they are a silent majority. They believe they are a minority under threat from a wicked cultural majority. They do not want majority rule. They want minority rule - specifically, the ability for their group to exercise power over a majority they find morally repugnant.

Certainly fits with Dope's views. And he seems a fairly representative Trumper.

I didn't run into a paywall at the link you posted or the link the the Bulwark posted.
https://conservativestudy.redassociates.com

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