Trump held up a mirror to American society and showed everyone who was inside it. This happened to the chagrin of many who discovered that people they thought they knew were not all that great.
He gave America a permission slip to let their frustrations out; to let their racism flags fly proudly for a time until it all started to unravel.
Many knew who he was before but it was deliciously tempting to have a president who hated the same people you did; those pesky middle eastern or Mexican neighbors who you were sure are undocumented; or maybe that lesbian couple.
It didn't matter all that much to them that he was a classless buffoon and a criminal.
Many were proudly part of MAGA while the going was good but then stayed well past the expiry date. Doing an about face isn't going to work now and there will be consequences for many of them.
Being on the wrong side of history can be a bitch sometimes.
Just across the border from Canada (where I live), there are rural areas of blue states which voted as high as 35 or 40% for Trump. This seems incomprehensible at first until one realizes that stupid and selfish people can be found just about everywhere.
Even sometimes within our own families
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