Understanding Trump supporters, with empathy

I wonder about the narrative I see. It seems like when Trump was popular to a few, so many people were willing to leave it at “racists gonna racist”, and only now that he is well on his way to being candidate they are opening up to other explanations. Because what, we should consider that racist attitudes might actually be that widespread? Nope, never, back up because we have to instead consider that anti-expert culture thing being ignored before.

Well, there is a lot of truth in what is said here, but at the same time supporting Trump still means being at least indifferent to some very serious racism. In other words, I’d argue there is more than one serious thing happening here, and it feels a little as if one keeps being used to cover another.

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