[Serious] Question for the Trump supporters

[TaraJo]

I'm not a supporter, but he did sign that prison reform legislation I wanted and I was sure he was going to do something to fuck it up at the last minute.

Even then, Obama was the one who cut the prison population while he was in office.  

If you want to get an idea why a Trump supporter would support him in the first place, you need to go to the media that they go to.  Watch Faux News, Infowars, Breitbart, stuff like that.  I know, it's propaganda and they're constantly lying and they're routinely disproven, but they're able to effectively spread their message to a more or less mainstream audience convincingly and effectively enough that they're having a HUGE influence on elections.  If you want to get an idea what I'm talking about, there's a documentary on Amazon Prime called "The Brainwashing of my Dad."  The documentarian actually tracks how her own father turns from a nice, normal, fairly intelligent, compassionate person and morphs into an angry, hateful, right-wing lunatic and it all started with him listening to Rush Limbaugh while commuting to and from work.  And they document the intentional steps right wing people/groups took to create people like him.  The good news is, they were able to un-brainwash him at the end by cutting him off from the right wing garbage.