I read about Trump strongholds and the lack of an impact the charges and indictments have on the former president’s supporters. One description struck me more deeply. From the NY Times:
“Among voters who plan to vote for Mr. Trump again, Nicholas Kalamvokis, 58, said he liked the former president’s “regular people” persona and was willing to overlook his role in the events of Jan. 6, which he did not believe rose to the level of a crime.”
The former president’s “regular people” persona is a startling description. Trump has been found to cheat in business, compulsively lie, and demonstrates little self control. Full of pompous bluster, he’s cheated on his wife, has been married three times, shows little intellectual curiosity, and is both demonstrably petty and greedy. As a business person, he has multiple bankruptcies and has led numerous failed business efforts, while his WH administration set a new record for indictments and convictions. Meanwhile, since leaving office, Trump has set records for the most indictments ever levied on a former POTUS, including obstruction of justice as he lied about keeping classified information and tried hiding the requested documents from the government.
Liar. Thief. Cheat. Immoral. Unethical. Untrustworthy.
If this is a typical Republican’s view of ‘regular people’, their attachment to reality is more tenuous than I ever imagined, and I wouldn’t want to hang out with their ‘regular people’. Then again, I suspect that people like Kalamvokis live in an information bubble. The light seems different in there from the light with which I view the world.
Michael Seidel, writer 
Hello Michael. Their view of trump being a regular person like them is based on his willingness to speak the things they wish they could. Simply put, he hates who they hate, he speaks the damning thoughts they want and wish they could without consequence and he gets away with it, he talks without thought in incomplete limited sentences with limited vocabulary. In simple he is one of them in all the things that matter to them. Unlike other politicians that have an education, try to use code words for their bigotry and hates, these maga like the dumb downed trump. Again because he seems like them to them. That he is wealthy and the rest doesn’t enter into their thoughts. They want to be wealthy and also ignorant haters, they want to have sex with porn stars, they want to flaunt laws and get away with it. He is everything they want to be. IMO. Hugs
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Excellent assessment & summary. All of which stated makes it so damn hard to work with them to resolve differences and move the nation and world forward. Thanks for reading and commenting, brother. Hugs ‘n cheers
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