Some of the worst people in the country. I was raised evangelical, even the folks I know who were decent on an interpersonal level would never consider voting for anyone other than Republicans.

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    Other people will rightly focus on the evangelical part, but I want to emphasize how important “whiteness” is to the equation. Black Christians don’t do this shit.

    The through-line of Trump support is white supremacy. And white evangelical Christianity has a well known problem with white supremacy and white/Christian nationalism.

    It’s vexing why Christians would admire Trump in the first place because he’s just about the opposite of everything they claim to value. But if you think of them as white supremacists first, everything makes perfect sense.

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      100%. It’s unfortunate that more attention isn’t paid to the “Southern Strategy” - started by Nixon but honed and perfected by Reagan. It was basically a massive counter-revolution where whites hated that black Americans were granted civil rights, marginally improved economic standing, and more broadly there’s at least an attempt to put whites and blacks on an equal footing. This sort of white supremacy was sort of laundered through evangelical Christianity but yes, it’s whiteness first. The “Moral Majority” began as movement to fight the government from removing the tax-exempt status for private Christian schools that practiced racial segregation, for example. While white evangelical Christianity does predate the reaction to the Civil Rights movement, I think it’s fair to say that this white supremacy is the foundation for modern white evangelicalism.

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    Well I guess the American tradition of Televangelism set the stage for a grifter, pedo, rapist president.

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    I guarantee that if they fucking ban fox news from playing on US military bases then there would be a major shift on veterans.

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      It’s wild to me that those suckers and losers continue to support Trump.

      Guess he just “tells it like it is”

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    The change in men under 30 is impressive.The question is whether that’s a lasting change.

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      That group is voting on the fact that their economic horizons have become so limited (job market sucks, housing prices are way too high, etc). If Democrats can address those concerns, it could be lasting. If they don’t I imagine they could whipsaw back to Republicans.

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    Christian’s supporting a devil, Christ would be very disappointed. Shame on them for supporting an orange faced demon that initiates unjustified wars, orders his own innocent people to be killed, strips the rights of the people, encourages poisoning of the people, televises executions, and does it all for profit, notoriety, and fear mongering.

    Shame on them.

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      Their plan is to knowingly be evil here, then pretend that they’re sorry at the pearly gates.

      So they just have to fool God, and they’re in.

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    That seems to show a shift of one point, and it’s based on exit polls, which will probably have a bigger margin of error than that. The bottom text even says “subject to final weighting”.

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      Needlessly racist statement. You can’t fix indoctrination, brainwashing, tribal mindset, purposely bad education, etc is what you mean. Even that isn’t strictly true, but it is extremely difficult and rare

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    What a terrible graph layout. The X axis is horribly described.