Misunderstanding Trump Voters
at least some of them
In the clip, McWhorter describes a cult of personality around Trump. While he’s certainly right to observe that such a cult of personality exists, I think he thinks it’s much broader than it is. It seems to me McWhorter misses an entire group of Trump voters: Those who are not caught up in Trump’s personality, and who have some concerns about that personality, but who are voting for him anyway.
I don’t know how large this group is numerically, but it is not insignificant. I am one of those people who will be voting for Trump despite the problems with his personality and competence. Many people I’ve spoken to, including former always-Democrat voters, feel the same.
If leftist Democrats like McWhorter want to truly understand why Trump happened, and why he may happen again, they would do well to look deeper than they are looking right now. McWhorter strikes me as emotionally disgusted with Trump, and emotionally disgusted with people voting for Trump. Because of this, he does not seem to recognize the actual character of many people voting for Trump, or our reasons for doing so.
Those like me are not in a cult of personality around Trump. Those like me, in fact, often recognize that he probably has a fully diagnosable personality disorder (narcissism). But—and this should not be hard to see—look at the left. Barack Obama? Covert narcissist. Joe Biden? Grandiose narcissist, pathological liar, and now, mental incompetent.
All one needs to do to understand why people like me are voting for Trump is to look at the anti-American-people agenda of the Democrats. The past four years have been a social, legal, criminal, and economic nightmare. That’s real. And that’s your boy, McWhorters of the world. That’s your party.
As a former leftist-progressive registered Democrat and someone who reacted histrionically to Trump’s election, I’m now voting for Trump. Not because I’m emotionally allied to the guy’s personality, but in spite of it.
We’re not all mindless rubes hypnotized by Trump’s flash. McWhorter and those like him are intelligent enough to be able to understand and recognize that. I think it’s time they started making the effort. If I can be as temperate in this piece as I have been given McWhorter’s insulting and self-serving description of people who vote differently from him, he can be expected to turn down the emotion and engage the intellectual curiousity.
It’s no longer left vs. right.
It’s good vs. evil.
This could not be more obvious at this point.
For those who STILL think voting for the Biden regime is acceptable, I have one question, “Why do you want to inflict harm on your fellow Americans?”
I don't love everything that Trump does, either. I do think he is pretty funny (or rather, petty funny?) but he definitely has some glaring personality faults.
What I do love, however, are results based on decisions made for the benefit of society.
My take on TDS is similar to my take on a lot of our other current problems: our country has been softened by feminization, so that most people can't prioritize real, objective thoughts on behalf of society, over feelings for a particular individual or cause.
They have been taught WHAT to FEEL, instead of HOW to THINK...their brain has zero influence over their heart ("their truth").