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If that's genuinely how they see him, as some kind of champion against the system, then I wonder how often they wish they had a better champion.
Comment by FleetStreetsDarkHole at 23/01/2025 at 00:05 UTC
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They don't. That's the problem. I'm sure there's a few who actually blinded themselves to feel good about their choice but most of them just wanted someone to validate their own perspectives. Many of them are genuinely racist, or might-makes-right, or full blown Nazis. And we just didn't notice b\c we wanted to believe in the good in people. And they knew they had to keep their thoughts secret.
His cult didn't come from nowhere. He was just their permission. These are all the racist uncles we were trying to keep in the corner finding a banner to unite under.
Not to mention stuff like Cambridge Analytic finding ways to create more of them.