• jonne@infosec.pub
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    11 hours ago

    I thought this was always obvious. His whole appeal was ‘he says it like it is’ and ‘he’s brave enough to say what we’re all thinking’.

    That’s why scandals didn’t affect him, he never pretended to be virtuous like most of the other Republicans do.

    A third of people in any society have authoritarian tendencies and will vote for the strong man ‘that will set everything straight’, and it’s always a failure of mainstream politicians that allows these people to get into power (either by not motivating the other 70% to vote for their project, being too divided, or by going into a coalition with that party).

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      11 hours ago

      He really is an accurate representative for his base: the worst scum sucking garbage alive.