(March 27, 2018 at 12:29 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(March 27, 2018 at 12:14 pm)Cathooloo Wrote: Of course, people like that exists across the spectrum. Judgmental people are judgmental. I just find it odd that a group such as Trump-supporting evangelicals would shackle themselves to such a person, particularly as it related to the primaries. The man is a scumbag. Why him? Why not Kasich, Cruz, Rubio, or any of the other guys who's values at least align closer to their own? I can understand the general election, with the choice being seeing Hillary elected, or Trump, to them I imagine that staying away from the polls was only a slightly less bad option than voting for Hillary, but the GOP primaries have me baffled.
You and I both, CD. I don't get it. I don't get how he ever got as far as he did in the first place, much less won the primaries.
The one theory I've heard is that a lot of people (those who voted for him in the primaries) were just over the "PC culture", having words like bigot and racist tossed around, being demonized for being more conservative, etc etc. It made an atmosphere of "us verses them". A lot of people felt alienated and just sick of it. And to them, Trump kind of represented the opposite. It was different and new. The "other side" hated him the most, so perhaps conservatives saw it as the biggest eff you to their opposition and kind of a way to get back at them.
So . . . cultural resentment. Got it.
