That’s unfortunate to hear. When I grew up, they were largely apolitical, but those were Reagan vs. Carter days, so they wouldn’t have had a huge stake–imagined or otherwise–in races like that.
It’s sad because they are probably as easy to exploit, if not moreso, than Trump’s usual marks. Their schools generally only go to 8th grade (because that’s all you need to be a farmer…and it makes it harder to leave), and they’re prone to some of the anti-gov talking points, like being anti-vax. (Growing up, every few years measles would come charging through their communities and kill a few of their kids. It wasn’t a worry for the rest of us, at least at the time, because we were all vaccinated.)
You’d hope they’d realize that any real theocratic movement would not be toward an Amish way of life, but then again, all the fundies that support Trump seem to be under the impression that if the US became officially theocratic, their variety would be the “winner.”
