No. of Recommendations: 9
Most Trump supporters have different priorities, policy preferences, and beliefs than you or I. For example, I imagine that most of his supporters place a really high priority on border control. It's very important to them.
Ok. But let’s name the most important priority difference. White Christian male superiority.
The Republican Party has become the home for racists, misogynists, and Christian nationalists. Democrats, in spite of their traditional disorder, are welcoming to all. All races, all faiths, all genders.
In the race between a white man and a black woman, qualifications and policy become irrelevant. The marginal Republican voter, the one who isn’t watching policy, is motivated to vote against the black woman more than they would be to pick between two white men.
—Peter