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The 50% voting for Trump aren't all stupid. Though many are indoctrinated, taught to embrace confirmation bias, the bandwagon effect, and to fear the other.

IME they're a diverse group who all bought some just-so stories explaining why life was so much better 4yo. Rose tinted glasses and a repeated call to look to the past to some idealized time that never existed.

All that reinforced by a lot of loud distractions to avoid the awkward fact that the pandemic was a disaster, the tax cuts ballooned the deficit more than Biden, benefited mostly the rich, insiders lining their pockets, racking up pardons, and foreign policy that was openly corrupt.

IIRC it was the Trump administration that was mostly responsible for getting a vaccine out in record time.

It's really hard to reflect on the pandemic. There were certainly some funny anecdotes like bleach or horse medicine but there were also some serious professionals who tried their best. We also don't really know what the other possible outcomes could have been given other actions.

I'm sure plenty of rich were lining up their pockets in the Biden presidency as well. Do you have some sort of resource/evidence that there were higher level of corruption during the Trump presidency? Something systemic, not anecdotal. Trump supporters say Biden is corrupt. What is an objective measure here?

Running a deficit during tough times (pandemic) could be the right thing to do.

> Do you have some sort of resource/evidence that there were higher level of corruption during the Trump presidency?

Okay. How about leveraging the presidency to make a boatload of money from his private business.

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...

Also, the Ukraine call, Georgia call, Egypt bribe, flagrant nepotism, that one time he denied funding to the post office because he thought mail in ballots would harm his re-election.

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2020-53772526

Appointing people to agencies who wanted to dismantle them instead of carrying out their mission like Betsy DeVos for Dept of Edu and like Robert F Kennedy will apparently do for HHS because fluoride and vaccines are sus

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/cre...

Creating an atmosphere where loyalty is more important than founding principles which is an environment in which corruption can flourish.

That time he incited a mob to storm the capital because Mike Pence wouldn’t over turn the election results like he wanted.